{"id":763,"date":"2011-11-25T02:51:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T07:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2011-11-26T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:22:38","slug":"it-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/it-begins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I finally started silkscreening on the panels. It’s about time!<\/p>\n

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Had to improvise an attachment to the panel so I can print right off the edge… should have used a lighter wood…<\/p>\n

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Here goes nothing! It’s daunting and a little exhilarating that all those weeks of preparation comes down to a
\nsingle pull\u00a0of the squeegee…<\/p>\n

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Well hello<\/em> there \u2013 not too shabby! (I didn’t weigh down the other end of the panel properly and nearly flipped it
\nover as I\u00a0pushed down with the squeegee, but even so this pull turned out okay. A promising start.)<\/p>\n

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As I suspected, registration was a bitch. It probably took me an hour to get screen #3 in place, and then it shifted
\nslightly during the print. (FFFFFFFFFFFFF!<\/a>) These hinge clamps have served me well, but it may be time for
\nthem to retire…<\/p>\n

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It’s not perfect \u2013 I’ll need to touch up a bunch of places \u2013\u00a0but it’s gonna work. Up next: COLORS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I finally started silkscreening on the panels. It’s about time!   Had to improvise an attachment to the panel so I can print right off the edge… should have used a lighter wood…   Here goes nothing! It’s daunting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,47],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings","tag-30-birds","tag-silkscreening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawncheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}