My first Leaf Casting experiment

Mike DeChellis · **Posted:** Mar 12, 2010 5:52 PM

Well as you can imagine I am really excited. This is hot out of the press, scanned and delivered to you as I can't wait to share this. This is probably the most exciting experiment I have done so far and I am already did a bigger one while this one was drying which I will be sharing very soon.

My main focus with this experiment was just the mechanics of leaf casting. The alignment wasn’t perfect and the excess trimmed off isn't perfect either but I am still really happy with it. I even forgot to wipe the loose stray fibers before the pic but oh well. Ok enough talk and time to show the work.

Before I got started.

After paper dried.

After pressing.

After trimming excess off.

Mike Greenwood · **Posted:** Mar 12, 2010 5:55 PM

Wow! I'm impressed Mike! :applause:

Mark S. Zaid · **Joined:** Apr 25, 2007 2:21 AM **Posts:** 1783

Very interesting and educational to see the transformation.

Thanks for sharing Mike!

Mr. Zipper · **Joined:** Apr 25, 2007 2:21 AM **Posts:** 6033

Wow. Is this a major investment in terms of equipment? I presumed the leaf casting setup would be quite a large and expensive piece of equipment.

Looks good! The color match is pretty close. :peace:

Mike DeChellis · **Posted:** Mar 12, 2010 8:32 PM

Mr. Zipper wrote:

Wow. Is this a major investment in terms of equipment? I presumed the leaf casting setup would be quite a large and expensive piece of equipment.

Looks good! The color match is pretty close. :peace:

It can be a large investment but I saved money by engineering my own unit. I still has some bugs but it gets the job done for now. Eventully when I am making a ton of dough restoring books I will purchase higher class equipment. :silly:

Mike DeChellis · **Posted:** Mar 13, 2010 4:41 PM

Mike Greenwood wrote:

Wow! I'm impressed Mike! :applause:

Thanks MIke, I saw Kenny pointed out how reserved you are about restoration so I appreciate compliment.

Mike DeChellis · **Posted:** Mar 13, 2010 4:41 PM

Mark S. Zaid wrote:

Very interesting and educational to see the transformation.

Thanks for sharing Mike!

Your welcome, thanks for reading.

Mac Man · **Posted:** Mar 13, 2010 7:09 PM

I said it over there and I'll say it here: this is some really fine work you're doing here and the progress you're making is really something else! :yipeeeee:

whisp · **Joined:** Aug 09, 2010 8:30 AM **Posts:** 152

That is pretty cool how that works.

PaulGC · **Joined:** Nov 23, 2010 6:09 PM **Posts:** 289

I think I am going to have to hire you for one or two items.

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