After building a couple of test moulde and deckles, I decided to build bigger ones that were more period to the AZ Ren Faire (1540-1590).
If you want to make paper pulp on a small scale or for a classroom situation, acquire a blender (never to be used for food/drink ever again), paper to recycle and…
Along with small scale pulp making, small scale (or just small) sheet forming is perfect for the occasional user or classroom situation.
There are a couple different methods you can employ to press your paper (for home and classroom).
I wanted to create large amounts of pulp for papermaking at the AZ Ren Faire. The blender method won't cut it. I must find another way…
I found that there are really no places or sites with exact plans for building a Hollander Beater. I had to figure out all the mechanics and ratios myself.
Building the tub for the Hollander involves making some critical decisions like, tub material, amount of pulp it is going to make, depth, and where am I going to put this thing…
Now that tub decisions are made, one of the most integral relationships is the Drum to the bed plate. How big, what are they made of…
Now all the pieces are done, how do they all fit together? What should I watch out for?
This should be simple… yet, I should have spent as much time on the shield as I did on the entire beater itself.
In testing the beater I found the leak points, the weak points, and the capacities and items that need to be improved…
Here is what I have found in using my homemade (by a Dutch person no less) Hollander Beater
Paper has been made from cloth & rags made of cotton… so making it from raw cotton should be easy! Not quite.