To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

I dunno why I keep looking at craigslist, when the majority of the ads are like THIS, but I occasionally check it and today I noticed THIS AD, offering typewriter repair and cleaning. It’s in the Phoenix area, so kinda out of my way when I have MTE just around the corner, and I have […]

Sadly, when forced to move by the loss of the Ranch, I had to drastically slim down my old worldly goods, which included my 10-year collection of postage paid envelopes from every junk mail I received over that timespan. Yup, all in the recycling bin along with a couple decades of my own saved mail. […]

Typecast from “Tex”, 1957 Underwood Golden Touch Deluxe

Been busy as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest these past couple of weeks, and this weekend I was in the woods attending a wedding of a couple dear friends of mine (this time I was a groomsman rather than the officiant, much easier that way). Here’s a pic of my Tower in the […]

The Phoenix Mini-Type-In 2011/10/05 @ China China

I have not bought any typewriters lately. I’m just too broke. I do occasionally hit the Thrifts, and usually see untempting electrics or nothing at all. The only thing of note to turn up was this older Swintec. I’ve never seen a Swintec in the wild, so I felt compelled to take a snapshot. On […]

Yep, I didn’t buy it. This Voss was in at Bill Wahl’s Mesa Typewriter Exchange for a cleaning. *sigh*, I’d be really tempted if it were for sale. Also, this filthy dirty Underwood 4-bank portable with an interesting paint job. Pretty, but also not for sale. Bill did send me home with Ellery, by Hermes […]

I’ve tossed around the idea of creating a new Typewriter Serial Number Database to address the deficiencies of TW-DB. I’ve asked around a bit and it appears that TW-DB is no longer being updated or maintained by its creator, although it remains the best and most complete serial number database on the web. Those of […]

Carl The Barber, by The Sun City Girls. Yes, it’s about the guy that cut my hair. Another link on the band’s own website. Of the one hundred copies on blue vinyl pressed, I have one. I have no idea what it’s worth.

I’m cataloging all of my machines. This is step one of wrapping up my second phase of typewriter *collecting* and starting the path to fully appreciating the best specimens of the herd – the threaded stock, if you will. I’ve cataloged typing samples, a short blurb and serial numbers for everything except the 60’s SCM’s […]

PS: this is my 150th post, and whoever comments next will be my 500th non-spam commenter!

The Swissa on Adwoa’s site

Got to talking with Bill Wahl down at MTE and he mentioned seeing an item in one of his old trade newsletters that indicated that the Olympia SM2 could be ordered with Segment shift (basket-shift) instead of the common Carriage shift. We both were dubious, considering the rather huge mechanical difference between the two shift […]