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You're amazing me! Thank you for your continuing support, on Patreon and now here.

You're doing my dream! I always wanted to share what I can with people my age! The quick answer for you is the only Legacy Mini Halfwood Press available, the one in the video, I put on Etsy HalfwoodPressStore. There's so much more I'd like to say to help you. It's important, what you envision. I hope we can a long and fruitful dialog.

I welcome your response, thank you. - Bill

Sure. It's early in the day (May 6) and printed yesterday from the stock images. If you would join the supporters you would see the updates. I work alone, see, but thanks for the nudge. And here's a nudge for you! :) gofund.me/e89c2aab

Thank you! Yes, my wife calls me a "barracuda" cuz I don't let go until I'm making something useful. - B

Thanks. I wish I had some tips but I haven't. All I can say is the ancients never used electroforming or etching - all sculpture in miniature, so you might look into lost wax casting and cast two sides of your coin and solder them into one. - BR

You and many others! We are working on improvements. My plan is to make it part of a subscription box - I'm thinking of kids and art museum gift shops. If you want to make suggestions, info@emeraldaworks.com

Ask Esha if she will forward the 20-minute full interview I sent her using WeTransfer. She only needs your email.

No, I do not think so because nickel silver, while it may accept the laser toner image, requires a strong etchant. I don't think ferric chloride will etch it. Nitric acid in some solution might, but I have no experience in etching nickel silver or any alloy like it.

Thank you, it was fun to make, and I appreciate your compliment. - Bill

Thank you Mr. Walker, I appreciate your comment - I have been considering cleaning up the audio with some of the new software out there, and you encourage me. - B

Describe this problem, I wanna know. Thanks

You're observant to notice this. Today I wear a surgical glove. It helps that the paper gets sticky with ink, same effect.

Thank you, Sybill (sp?), yes, it works! Thank you for watching this old video. Did I mention Warren told me the customs inspector said, "You've got a real piece of history thre, son!" It's true, and i just finished my autobiography, "Escape Emeralda," this week and Warren's story is in it. - Bill

Thank you for your reply and bit of the press's history. Warren is a master craftsman.

Thank you, Sybil, your wooden spoon reminds me I still have mine from 60 years ago!

Halfwood press on etsy is where he got his.

Ain't it the truth! And glad we are.

Thank you, yes, it is cute and I love it! By the way, I watched your video and noticed the sound was weak, I could not hear. But I discovered the transcript could be switched on, and I read it. I copied it, but I didn't take time to format it, but here it is for your audience to read: we use copper cups right now is because it's considered the copper age it's soon to be the silver age and then we'll use silver cups but our ancestors used copper to hold water in the house overnight so that it would not grow mold or germs and would be safe to drink because copper has antibiotic properties okay the first thing you do when you're busting the water besides obtaining some water i feel like we should all have water okay it is water is very important water is important to grandmother moon grandmother moon has no water but grandmother moon causes the tithes and olives as well as the tithes in the ocean and those tides have emotional significance the first thing you do when you bless the water is you raise the water three times and asked as to the blessing of the great spirit or the universe and then put a little bit of water into the earth because the earth has given us the water and you offer the water to the north and to the east into the south and to the west and then you offer the water to the participants which i didn't bring paper cuts so you're out of it sorry um i'm just going to stand on the table.

Thank you, I appreciate this, and if you have any suggestions to make new, better one, let me know by email. - BR

Hello again, Carole. I really appreciate your comment, and glad to hear you know printmaking. I would liked to have met your dad; we may have had a lot in common - even ancestors! If you locate our "round-the-world" video World Travel with the Ritchie Family, you see glimpse of Scotland. I like to brag about being a "MacRitchie." It looks like you are 21 hours ahead of us here in Seattle, so we could talk on the phone, they say. I'm looking into that. You say "was" a printmaker - but they say you get ink into your blood!

Hi again, no, unfortunately, we don't. Incidentally, two or three went to Australia. I have two finished ones, the're US$900 each. Incidentally, I am writing my autobiography, and it was a woman from New Zealand who suggested I make mini halfwood presses for sale! She was leaving the next day, however, and it was months before we started making them for sale. I have one of the early originals the owner brought back for me to sell - she is a jeweler and never had time to get into printmaking. It's never been used! I'm thinking of turning the design over to a big US etching press company to bring it back to life, but in a "green" form, less impactful on the environment, I think and good for home school. So many ideas, so little time!

Thank you, Carole - and thanks for reminding me to go look at it. It was ten years ago, and still it was, and is, a promising idea. Maybe it will happen in YOUR country instead of the USA. Hmm?

Thanks, Jimmy, it is gratifying that it's useful to you. - Bill

@@BillRitchie Bill, why does the ferric chloride only etch when the plate is facing down?

@@Jimmy-sb3fc The chemical reaction results in a precipetrate, if the plate is upside down or vertical, if a "bubbler"" keeps the action going, the preciptrate leaves. It left alone, face up, it clogs the etching and stagnates, stopping the etching.

@@BillRitchie Thank you so much!!

Thank you, and I appreciate your note. Each time I find a response, I fear someone will point out errors and ommissions an suggest taking it down. Now, to me, it is a nostalgia piece, and funny, too!

Thanks for reminding me how much FUN it was, too!

The first ones, about 40 of them all sold, all gone, at $125 to to $400. I have email addresses,, I think, in case I find someone like you who would get in touch. Tell me your city/country, maybe there would be one near you. My website. Https://www.emeraldaworks.com has free flipbooks, and the Halfwood Press Encyclopedia shows a few in collections along with the Halfwoods. Tomorrow I will talk to Tom Conrad, who bought one and I'll ask if he will sell his to you.

Thank you, it still is, after all these years. We were lucky to have her before she became more famous.

Thanks for your comment, and it's great I could switch over quickly, open the flipbook version of the other book, the Halfwood Press Encyclopedia and "relive" your page. What times we live in! - Bill

Thank you, Nora Rae, I love those mini presses too. I'd like to find a company to restart manufacturing the little ones.

@@BillRitchie can you help me find a DIY Rembrandt Print maker?

I heard there was an auction, I'm glad you won one of the works. The man whose collection that was called me, he is the son of Lisel's last caregiver. It is good you want to learn more about lisel. You might like this one minute video ua-cam.com/video/iJ4V3Yw742s/v-deo.html

Thanks, Tyrus. I saw the article about your talk, that must have gone well. I thought to put you on my "people to call on spur-of- the-moment" but 411 couldn't get me your number. I walk at 8 AM, and most people are not up around here; but FL, probably, EDT.

You are welcome. Is it not a wonderful time when technology can come around like this? I didn't know he made paper! I haven't looked, but is Carol's biography out, or autobio? That would be interesting. - B

You mean "cha-ching?"

@@BillRitchie that is correct cha-ching

@@laucoxify okay. I better think "money."

I agree. You may be interested in helping this project - would you be?

@@BillRitchiecan one be purchased? I have been trying to find one of your kits but I have been unsuccessful.

All true period I recently contacted Lena, she's a barrista. They lost their parents. He's in high school.

@@BillRitchie Oh, great that you're able to stay in contact with them. And, aww. I'm sorry to hear they lost both their parents, and at such a young age, too! :((( That is rough. :( If they should happen to see this comment, my condolences. <3

When I read "Magic Mountain," I learned that when lives an unchanging, routine existence (as the character in the story was in a sanitorium to recover from TB, and every day was like every other day) then time flies by. One refers to years as if they were only months! For me, time goes slowly - months seem like years! Sometimes I need my computer's files to ascertain that, yes, it was 2013 when we did our Emerald Star day cruise! ua-cam.com/video/bhLxRy-ulkk/v-deo.html Really? Ten years sounds like a long time, but it feels like months ago. Variety in life is like sand in the clockworks, it slows time down. Thanks for the question! This is fun.

@@BillRitchie Aww. Thank you, Mr. Ritchie, for answering this question for me. You are right, and what you said makes sense. If our life is the same, and not filled with activity, and is mundane, I can see how those days meld into one another and it all feels the same. But with adventure, learning and experiencing new things, it would feel better, and time slows because you're in the moment. Thank you for sharing with me the lessons you learned regarding this. And I got a chance to watch that video. It was wonderful and heartwarming.