{"id":516,"date":"2021-09-14T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=516"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T21:00:55","slug":"book-press-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Book Press Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always thought book presses were nifty.   They&#8217;re old, solid, made of cast iron and built like a tank.   I like the huge metal crank wheel on the top and the beefy threaded rod that raises and lowers the press.    Although I don&#8217;t have a use for one I&#8217;ve always wanted one in my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked this up used just out of town, it&#8217;s a STANDARD Levey Bros. (not sure of the year).  It was nasty but I thought I would be able to clean it up well.   So I did.   Here is before and after.   All I did was take it all apart, grind off the rust and old paint, used bondo where I wanted it smooth and painted it with Tremclad black gloss spray paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress00.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress00.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress00-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress01.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress01-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress02.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress02-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress03.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bookpress03-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought book presses were nifty. They&#8217;re old, solid, made of cast iron and built like a tank. I like the huge metal crank wheel on the top and the beefy threaded rod that raises and lowers the press. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/?p=516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75YqE-8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewoodwork.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}