sorting type?
haven’t been on here in a few years. just purchased a 5x8 kelsey model o with a some type that’s piled in the bottom of a box. is there a trick to sorting the thousands of letters? thanks. jim
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haven’t been on here in a few years. just purchased a 5x8 kelsey model o with a some type that’s piled in the bottom of a box. is there a trick to sorting the thousands of letters? thanks. jim
This is one of those norman horrible jobs but it will get you “close”to yr type…… in the old days the journeyman would leave a drawer pulled near all the way out & send the apprentices to fetch it …& if they were not careful it would spill out onto the floor ! great fun & of course after much teasing they were told to sort it ….. all as a “learning?” process…. /////sorting mixed fonts is even more of a pain but it will sharpen yr eye & has the back up of becoming more obvious when you have set something and are proofing it….but it is far easier to replace at that point (&less daunting) good luck & yr mantra is “I am learning” (and as Lewis Allen noted “never keep a hand gun in the press shop”