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Figure 3-8 Wooden press diagram PLACEHOLDER.jpg
Diagram of the Uncommon Press with parts labeled.

2017-03-30-14-05.jpg
Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectric engineering student from Olympia, WA., holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016.

Printing with narration.mp4
Video of the Uncommon Press in action, with narration explaining how it works.

Ferris_Platen.jpeg
Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.

hanging platen.jpeg
The mahogany platen has hung from the hose with a series of 4 knots, tied with string.

Randy fit Tympan.jpeg
The Uncommon Press team worked in the engineering machine shop to fit, assemble, and oil components of the press, before the final assembly in the Wallace Library. Here the tympan is being attached to the coffin.
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