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Yes, the pressure shaft is turned. Being a professional woodturner, I guess I just had to turn some part of it.....

I think the plunger is at distance A and the weights are at distance 2A. Pictures can be deceiving.... That is how I figured it, anyway, just like you said.

I thought of using screws, like a veneer press, but didn't think of using a scale to measure pressure! Great idea!

Being new to cheesemaking, I don't have much to share about the process, yet. But I'm a career woodworker, so here's my first effort at making a cheese press. Works so much better than trying to balance the weights on top of a follower and mould! A bit of math allows me to calculate how much...

I'm new to making cheese, so I apologize for my "newbie questions".... Every time I have made cheese, the whey is not "clear" like Ricki Carrol's Home Cheesemaking book suggests it should be. It is rather opaque, the color of non-fat milk with a yellow-ish cast to it (from B vitamins?). I've...