What letterpress looks like in action and end result

I took a short movie of me printing last week.  It's really fascinating.  Just kidding.  It's actually quite slow and boring to watch but for the one printing, it requires full on concentration to make sure that everything is printing well.  The folio you are watching being printed is whats called a gate fold.  I thought it was going to be the most challenging but turned out to print real well.  The photo's are of the finished folio.

The most challenging one turned out to be one side of the second to last folio.  As you might remember, I am printing a copy of each persons response as a Thank You for participating.  I had 1/2 of a response on the base already aligned correctly and decided to go ahead and print the entire thing ( the entire response is printed on 2 different spreads).  I put is on and printed a proof.  Something did not look right.  At first I freaked out that I had printed it entirely wrong but then again upon further inspection, there had been a mistake in my editing.  Now I was faced with the dilemma of having to cut the plate apart with accuracy.  I ended up with 4 slim lines of text that I had to reconfigure to make the sentences from the remainder of the paragraph and then place the last part of the whole text beneath.  This is what it looked like in the bed of the press.  There was lots of breathe holding but I believe it worked out.