Where to buy quoins and furniture?

John Barrett at Letterpress Things (www.letterpressthings.com is great if you’re in the northeast (and if you’re not, he’ll ship). Or NA Graphics (www.nagraph.com) for all of your letterpress needs. Good luck!

If you get really desperate I have a vast amount of furniture, you can have a shoe-box full free of charge, but you would have to pay the postage from here in England. I have a very few narrow quoins I could let go but they would be cash. You would have to bodge a quoin key from a bent nail (its easy). NA Graphics are a most helpful outfit, I’ve bought from them.

You probably know its properly called the Anglo-American point system and the point (sorry!) is
that our stuff works with yours over there.

warmest regards (despite GWB)

J. Stafford Baker The Happy Dragons Press.

Not much room in a 5x8 chase for furniture, but I’ve got a bunch laying around in the smaller sizes. Mostly metal furniture. Let me know if you’re interested. It won’t be expensive.

The 5” x 8” Kelsey chase is designed so that quoins are not supposed to be necessary. Note that there are two screws on each of two sides of the chase. If the chase is fairly snuggly filled with furniture, these screws can to tightened to apply enough pressure to lock everything in place. A good tip is to have some sort of hard metal furniture along the edges that will contact the screws so that the screws don’t “chew up” your furniture.

email us your specific needs. We can accommodate.

I have a lot of old quoins and furniture. I am in Illinois

Email us your specific needs. We can accommodate.

Can you make your own furniture?

Yes. Especially if you have a really accurate saw like a hammond Glider or C&G. But there’s lots of old furniture out there available for relatively cheap prices. Why go to all the trouble?