Weapon of Choice: “Adwoa” 1961 Swissa Junior Photoshop 7 running in Linux/XFCE. It works, mostly – at least everything I need to work does work. And yeah, an outdated version of Photoshop from 2002 does a lot of things that Gimp and Krita do not do. Things I need still, like CMYK support, batch scripting, […]
Month: January 2020
1909 Mares Available Again!
In case you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars and valuable search time finding an original 1909 Mares or the 1980’s Dan Post reprint, there’s now an Operation O.O.P.R.A.P. reprint of 1909 Mares in pocket paperback format: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-history-of-the-typewriter/26104091
Typewriter TV Episode 001 2020/01/10
Typewriter TV – Episode One ########################################## Typewriter Books for Collectors By: Will Davis, the author of the Typewriters by Will Davis page and the co-author of The Davis Typewriter Works blog. http://willdavis.org https://davistypewriters.blogspot.com/ Bonus Youtube content from the Davis Bros. who are basically the Click & Clack of typewriters: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkoFvwDFlV9HxlBxL3Yilag/videos ########################################## A Quick Lesson on […]
1937 Corona Standard – Sometimes The Best Fix Is A Good Cleaning
Weapon of Choice: “Jack Davenport”, 1937 Corona Standard “Squareline”. Well, here’s the master escapement trip adjustment, anyway. Well, at least I understand what’s *supposed* to be happening. I do really like being able to read through a process before poking at it. Maybe for this Squareline it’ll just be “Everything fixed through the magic of […]
First and Second Score of the 2020 Typewriter Hunting Season
Weapon of Choice: 1938 Corona Junior Model “S”. I guess it’s a stretch to call them “Scores”, since Key Snap (Erik) offered them to me as he was slimming down his collection, and I didn’t find them in the wild… The Frozen-solid 1937 Corona Standard “Squareline”. Yeah, not real sure about that giant woodscrew holding […]