‘Tis the season of Omicron, and I feel a few more blogs coming on over the next month or two. I’m going to start with my reaction to a picture I commented on a week or two back, where I said that something reminded me of deckle-edged prints, and that Fred Jackson had had a deckle edge guillotine.
The way my mind works meant that it took me all of 5 seconds to decides to have a look on the day and see if I could find a deckle edge guillotine. No prizes for guessing that the answer was yes, and that I now own a 7-inch straight and deckle edge guillotine! There were 9-inch examples are available as well, one of them boxed and in immaculate condition, but it three times the price of the unbranded one that I’ve got.
Fashions change of course: usually in a more expensive direction, so that the tendency now is to sell colour prints mounted on aluminium – or for all that I know on inch-thick sheets of platinum. There’s always the possibility that reviving an old idea will start a new fashion.
Anyway, have a look at both the device and the results. Who knows – this time next year there may be a startup firm in China that owes its existence to Roy’s photograph and this blog.
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