Kategorie: Typewriters for Writers

The machine you write on every day is not the machine you would take on a train. Writers almost always end up with something heavier than they first imagined, because weight is what keeps a typewriter still while you work. A semi-portable sitting flat on a desk absorbs the shock of a hard keystroke. An ultraportable travels across the table and asks you to type more gently than you want to. If you are going to spend three hours a day with a machine, start with the heavier end and work down.

What to look for

Carriage stability under a fast hand. Key travel that suits how hard you strike — test it if you can, and tell us how you type if you cannot. Ribbon availability. And the keyboard layout: QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY and the accented characters your language needs are not interchangeable, and a machine with the wrong layout will annoy you every single day.

Weight is a feature here, not a drawback.

What restoration means here

Every machine has been dismantled, cleaned of decades of dried oil and paper dust, adjusted, oiled where it should be oiled and dry where it should be dry, then test-typed. For a writer's machine we go further on the things you will notice: escapement timing, ribbon advance, margin and tab reliability, and the platen. A machine that looks immaculate and types badly has been polished, not restored.

Every purchase includes a fresh ribbon, a reprinted manual, a one-year warranty and technical support from the person who did the work.

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