Entstehung 18

1939 Torpedo 18a 234156

Entstehung ≈ Genesis

I didn't want to call it Genesis 18, because Sodom and Gomorrah.

If you ever want a really strange read… anyway, the German word sounds cooler.

Sent from my new Torpedo 18a

A Torpedo's Change of Clothes

All four of these pictures are the same typewriter; my all ivory Torpedo 18b with Esquire type. One of the beautiful advantages of Torpedo's colour schemes is that you can mix and match as you please, creating seemingly endless combinations just by switching the ribbon covers. Of course, a lot of these look pretty gross, but here are four that I find to be very pleasant. Right now I've got the blue ribbon cover on it, and I think that's my favourite.

Three of the ribbon covers here belong to typewriters I've already featured in the past, but the green one is new. The amazing all green Torpedo seen below was part of a trade with my good friend Andrew when he visited last month. I exchanged my silvery green-grey script Torpedo for this. It's imperfect, though. The "R" typeface is loose on the typebar. Thankfully it is ordinary elite, which seems to be the most common typeface on Torpedo 18s so I'll be able to replace it eventually if I can't solder it back on.  Doesn't stop it from being one of the most beautiful colour schemes Torpedo ever made!

An Amalgamation / Buying Tactics / Ribbons (3x)

My Typewriters

Typed in a green way

on my Torpedo 18a

Reading over this again, I realise how awful my grammar is. In the second paragraph, the sentences are too monotonous. In the third, I totally change ideas in the middle of a sentence. I'm going to work on preserving continuity.

Typosphere-derived words / Ned the typewriter dog

Typed on my Torpedo 18 with Ned the black lab.

Usually you see typewriter cats. Not here I'm afraid, even though I love cats.

I add typospherical to the list, a pretty obvious one.

Typewriters in Seattle & Collected Summary of Collecting

These results show, considering they are about 2 years worth of continuous searching, that in the end it doesn't really matter where you look. You will find typewriters worth keeping in just about any venue as long as you keep at it long enough! Perhaps the antique store findings would be much higher if I had allowed myself a limit of, say, $50 instead of $30. But only slightly.

Typed on my Torpedo 18.

And well, actually, it's Lynnwood and Edmonds but Seattle sounds better.

Identical (Torpedo 18) Twins

Typed on my two Torpedo 18s and my Imperial de luxe 5.

My original 2011 Torpedo blog post with photos and first impressions.

A Mercedes-Benz 300SDL Turbo

Typed on the Mercedes-Benz of typewriters, Torpedo 18a.
Apologies for the bad photos.
Oh, forgot to mention it does have intermittent electrical failures. That's not always easy to remember because everything usually works fine.

Mails, Fountain pens & Simon Schuster's love story

Typed on my Torpedo 18 and
my Smith-Corona Silent at my desk.

Paint a picture with words

I wrote this last week. Since then, it's snowed and we now have about 2 inches on the ground! Here's shouting out to Rob Bowker who likes my descriptive writing. I like it too. ;) I thought I should exercise that talent and write this.

Typed on my Torpedo 18
at my desk.

Spring collecting goals, Therapy, Intelligence & work

Typed on my Underwood Standard, Torpedo 18, Remington Quiet-Riter, & Royal Arrow
in various places at various times.