A Little More Cutting

 I knew I needed to do a little more cutting on my Robert Johnson blocks, specifically the lyric areas of the vertical images, in case I need them for the print fair next month.  But as long as I was fixing things with carving tools, I figured I may as well cut away everything that accidentally picked up some ink in printing, since I had the tools present and it needed to be done before I printed it all again. I had brought my good carving tools with me this morning, along with a single disc, my home burned Billy Childish set, written about on this blog back in December of 2019 and probably many other times as well.  Going up two days in a row is not typical for me, but snow is predicted the next few days, I figured best to get up there now. No idea when I will get up there again to do the next step.

I only brought one disc because I knew it would not be a long session. I had to bring my father to an event late in the morning, so the plan was to get up there early and take care of this planned business quick. One disc would be enough.  

I started with Cross Roads Blues, a block done long ago, so definitely dry.  These lyrics have been printed before (for a purchase), but I knew there were plenty of stray marks to clean up, so tape pulled off and black ink areas carved away.  I think I got all of it, at least those parts I could carve.  (a knot will have to stay, but probably taped over)  Then I moved on to Terraplane Blues, just printed last week, but I saw a bunch of flaws there before the who piece of paper shifted.  I cut away what needed to be done, and will hope it's enough.  The blocks and wood shavings can be seen below:

Then I moved on to the other two blocks.  These were the ones that I printed the lyrics of just yesterday, trimming that which I didn't need, bits revealed in the inking process.  Didn't take any photos of these, but not much changed. 

Prints done and time to get home and on to the next step in my day's journeys.  Next time I get in there, I will probably print one of the new proofs with lyrics. Which one I am not sure yet.  All have to get done eventually, so it probably doesn't matter.