I am no longer funding or supporting STURDYPRESS web siye, so I wanted to post the plans for the original and the foldaway presses. Also included is the calculator ( open with any browser).
If you make one of these presses please show a picture on this forum, then make a cheddar and you will be on your way to a great hobby.
Cheers, Bob Samuelson
Many thanks for archiving your plans here smolt1, it is much appreciated.
I plan to eventually build a foldaway press, the data you provide here is an excellent help.
In my opinion this post should be stickied somewhere prominent.
Thank you very much sir.
Thanks for this!
Trent
Thank you so much!
I recently drove 3 hours to buy a used folding sturdy press. My hubby and I used it as an excuse for a weekend trip. ;) I had been to the website to see how to set it up and use it before my cow freshened and I had no milk for cheesemaking. After the calf was born I tried to go back to the website and found it unavailable. Im so very thankful you posted everything here!!! I love my press, Ive made an asiago and farmhouse cheddar so far.
I know I'll get many many years of use from this easy to use press. :)
Are the measurement in inches or cm?
A few of the pieces seem too long compared to the pictures.
Thank you.
The numbers on the pictures are definitely inches. I don't know much about it, but which pieces seem wrong to you?
Thank you so much for posting these plans! I bought a SturdyPress new from you years ago and love it. I wanted to recommend it to a friend tonight, and found you're no longer making them, but were generous enough to post plans. I have a website for my homestead, and would love to be able to post your plans and instructions there at some point, with proper credit of course, so that more people can make your wonderful press. Would you have a problem with that?
No problem, I put them in the public domain for anybody to use.
Cheers,
Bob Samuelson
smolt1 I think your signature line is a little outdated now!
;)
Quote from: olerocker on July 17, 2023, 07:16:46 PM
Hi everyone, im new here and would like to say hello and thanks for this great forum.
Im new to this cheesemaking journey and came across this fantastic and informative forum.
I have already made a couple of fresh cheese but feel the need to ramp up my skills.
I found this wonderful post by Bob sharing his hard work and would like to thank him.
Thing is, unfortunately all links have been lost from what i can see.
Is there maybe someone that has these sturdypress plans backed up and would be willing to share them ?
I am mostly interested in the foldaway sturdypress. It just blew me away, great craftmanship.
Thank in advance to anyone willing to lend a hand.
Didn't find a link to any foldaway plans, but here's what I believe is the original:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200122220938/http://sturdypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sturdypress-plans1.pdf (https://web.archive.org/web/20200122220938/http://sturdypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sturdypress-plans1.pdf)
If it helps these are the plans I used when I built my Dutch press: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utH9Zh-ecEj5m5G_boQKvKc_2i_KaM0v/view?usp=sharing
Someone else's work, I just built a cut list and went to town. I cut the end off a cutting board with drain channels to use as the base for the cheese to rest on.