#Alternative trotilla spress upgrade#
If you want an upgrade from a rolling pin, there’s the stainless steel Akua pin press, aka a fancy stainless steel rolling pin. Of course there is the good old wooden spoon or rolling pin. YouTube and instructables are littered with instructions for building your own presses. There’s also a proofing press, called the F-Press that you can purchase from the designer. I’m not sure what it would cost if you were to 3D print it your self. Even at the base cost of just materials, it costs well over $100. They offer them at cost and also at a bit of a profit- a pay what you can offering. You can print it yourself for the cost of time and filiments or buy one ready made. Then there’s the Open Press Project, which is a miniature (very tiny) 3D printed press.
That’s all you really need to make a relief print. The Speedball relief press works on the same idea as a tortilla press- hinged lid and a lever for pressure. It needs a pusher to even out the pressure from the lid if you are going to print in the upright traditional manner. Though I had initial terrible luck with getting smooth even prints with it. Back then they were a more reasonable $30, currently they run $90! (Though available at most discount art suppliers for around $70!) Good investment. Somewhere along the way I bought the little 5×8 Speedball press. It worked well enough but I soon used it more for pressing notebooks than anything else.
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After that I built another press with 2 thick slabs of crappy plywood, 4 long bolts, some wingnuts, and a handle. I probably should have asked my Dad for help in building the little press. A few posts back I mentioned my deep dive into YouTube and how it woke my interest in alternative presses for printmaking.īack in my undergrad years I’d heard about people using a variety of different tools to make prints, top among them the tortilla press! Way back then I attempted to make my own press from scrap wood my Dad had laying around and it was a pretty dismal failure.
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