Weapon of Choice: “Indy”, 1959 Tower Chieftain III Swapping the return arm from a 6Y to a 3Y Skyriter. I should note here that correctly adjusting the trip point also does significantly “snappy up” the typing action. Having it too low results in a sort of mushy end of stroke. That’s all gone now. :D […]
Month: November 2018
A Day With Joe (and fellow Typospherians)
Group photo of the happenstance Typospherian meetup at Bill’s, from left to right: Random photobomber fellow, Joe, Bill, Erik and Cameron. Not sure who the random fellow was, he was walking by and stopped to be in the photo. :D Fuzzier photo of us taken by the random guy, from left to right: Erik, Joe, […]
The Return of the Axes
The Machine… The Man, Mr. Butane… Hey, there’s sort of a database for Fender tube amp serial numbers now! What’s this Circuit-Bent stuff anyway? Apparently, these are still popular enough that people rhapsodize on them on the web, and charge $300+ for them on Ebay. Who’d’a thunk? I guess I did pretty good finding this […]
Report from Typewriter Harvest 2018 Type-In
As per usual, I spent my time at the Type-In chatting with folks and occasionally helping the mystified newcomer figure out the carriage return and how to make exclamation points rather than typing anything of substance, but I did try to hit every machine and get an impression off… Some computer generated typewriter art by […]
To Collect and Preserve: An Informative Brochure
I wanted to print up some flyers for the “Cold Hard Type” project to pass out at the next couple of local Type-Ins, and thought “Why stop there? I can make a little brochure/zine to pass out.” So, I whipped up a tri-fold brochure with a bunch of useful info for the new local area […]
Call for Submissions: Cold Hard Type, Typewriter Stories from the Post-Digital World
I’m in, are you? :D