http://end-grain.net/?p=514 A wood Type and Letterpress blog Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://end-grain.net/?p=514&cpage=1#comment-10 Nick Sherman Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:00:37 +0000 http://heckhouse.com/endgrain/?p=514#comment-10 The upper two inner vertices on this block look so rounded that I wonder if they were hand-trimmed at all. The downward pointing angle in the middle definitely looks like it was, but at this size I wonder if the difference for the other two was subtle enough that they thought it was OK to skip. If anyone were to cut corners like that (or, should I say <em>not</em> cut corners) it would've been Hamilton. It'd be easier to get an idea by looking at the other blocks from the font. The upper two inner vertices on this block look so rounded that I wonder if they were hand-trimmed at all. The downward pointing angle in the middle definitely looks like it was, but at this size I wonder if the difference for the other two was subtle enough that they thought it was OK to skip. If anyone were to cut corners like that (or, should I say not cut corners) it would’ve been Hamilton. It’d be easier to get an idea by looking at the other blocks from the font.

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