Scott Coxe

I'm what you would call a skilled formally educated welder with excellent engineering and fabrication skills and I also press comics. I've been welding for over 35 years and pressing comics for maybe 3. I almost immediately made excellent results and excellent failures. I've found practice makes perfect but I always wonder how the other guy gets his or her results, I would call it professional curiosity and the want to improve my skill set. Unfortunately the comic pressers out there were of little help basically scolding, belittling and condescending anyone trying to gain basic knowledge. So I pressed a few hundred comics and became proficient to point where my results are far better than anyone's 10 to 20 dollar press results I have ever seen. People in this industry actually think they are something special but my welding and mechanic skills earn me over 100k a year and have for a long time so good luck doing that pressing comic books. People out there wanting to press books just get a good press a Seal not that China junk most wannabe pressers are using and listen right now a humidication chamber filled with only distilled water and ALOT of dollar books from every age and just start pressing. If you want excellent results practice and make the humidication chamber part of pressing most of your books it certainly makes a huge difference on how well your books come out and press, press, press, these jokers on here that think they are something special for pressing paper are a bunch of self righteous man people_without_enough_empathy who could use a crash course in humility. I have watched pretty much every video and paid for a course as well and I got a little better but nothing works as well as practice. Quality press, humidication chamber, junk books, and within 100 presses you will probably have the courage to press that Hulk 181. Its not hard people my Welding and mechanical skills were much, much, harder to attain in every single facet only a ignorant person who presses comic would make a fool's comparison like this. You would have to have quite a few presses hot and cold and a huge clientele to make a appreciable amount of money doing this and the liability of pressing a high dollar comic isn't a joke either. About the only thing that makes pressing anything like a skilled labor job is throwing books that cost thousands of dollars in the mix. The mess gets real when you start pressing books in the 1000 and up range.