Speedball Super Value Block Printing Starter Kit – Includes Ink, Brayer, Lino Handle and Cutters, Speedy-Carve

I bought it to try out the hobby and its pretty good for a starter kit, but since its speedball Brand its pretty expensive for the kit, but definitely a good cuality in all the 3 products you receive with this kit.

This package contains everything but the paper! It comes with three carving nibs and handle, roller, ink and carving block. Its very soft and easy to cut, only gripe is that my tool tips were dull or uneven. They might have been sharpened wrong in factory idk. Made it work cuz the block is really really soft - but you should snag a seperate pack of nibs or a whetstone to sharpen the ones it comes with if you intend to use them over and over.

I’m going to have to get more, and might as well toss all the old ones.

The carving block is nice and soft, but the cutting tool blades came dull and rusty. I bought a strop because I saw experienced printers homing their blades every 10 cuts. I was able to carve the pink block this way, but when I tried it on gray lino, the blades bent where they meet the handle. This was even with warning/softening the block with my heart gun first. The kit is not a good value for money if the tools cant hold up to reuse.

This set comes with a holder, 3 gouges (small v, large v and a large u), black ink and one speedy carve block. It is the bare bones essentials to get started with block printing. Now that I have been using it for a while I am kicking myself for not getting the deluxe set instead. It includes 4 extra tubes of ink, a bench hook and a linoleum block on top of everything in this value set. A single tube of speedball ink is about 12 dollars so that’s over 70$ worth of extra materials for a few more dollars. If I could go back in time I would’ve gotten the deluxe set to begin with!

The product was just as described. It was delivered in a timely manner. I’m sure to use this vendor again.