Nostalgic item for older graphic design types:

[$tevie]

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/zip/140312469.html

Looking at that photo sure takes me back. I used that exact same waxer at a couple different jobs. I can hear the thing whirring away, and almost feel how hot that metal plate would get. I'm remembering what an improvement it was to use compared to rubber cement, and no more Bestine. Wow.

[Gutenberg]

I have an Artwaxer if you want it. I could bring it over.

[$tevie]

No thanks. I don't think I can squeeze one more thing into this place. :-D

[Gutenberg]

Dang.

[Seacrest]

"...10 years ago."

Uh, try 20.

Ten years ago we setup our first website and were accepting files over some newfangled thing called "FTP." We had long since stopped doing RC paper output, and would buy our first digital press two years later.

[MacArtist]

It brings back memories...

Rubylith and X-acto knives

PressType

Rapidograph pens and french curves

[blooz]

Hell, we were using one at Star Press as little as three years ago. Admittedly, we didn't use it much.

[Gutenberg]

We still have some amberlith lying around somewhere. About 10 years ago I stopped by a friend's house and he was using ruby to mask the floor while he painted his baseboard heaters. We were still cutting ambers for spot color.

[MacArtist]

Sad to think about all the dollars I spent on presstype while attending art school. Being smarty-pants know-it-alls; we asked why there weren't any Macs around ('88). The teachers replies were "we aren't sure what impact computers will have on the graphic arts."

Yeah, right.

[rgG]

I came along during the spray mount era. At my first job right out of college they had just ditched the waxers and moved to spray mount. I still remember running across art boards with type stuck down with wax in the files, though.

MacArtist,
Don't forget those long rubber flexible curves, too.