Recent Posts & Wet Ink

Repairs
Fixing up the Bennett
February 3rd

Some quality of life improvements on a very old index typewriter, making it mostly usable, if not exactly suitable for novel-writing.

Updates to Image Features

Site Info · February 2nd

Two new features have been added: carousels and image modals. These allow for similar images to be grouped and for single images to be expanded, respectively.

Carousels will have groups of similar images, you can use the arrows to skip through them or hover over it to pause. Expandable images will let you click into an image and zoom in.
Repairs
3 Bank Pivots & Bushings
January 24th

After sourcing parts from across the pond and machining some parts from scratch, this Underwood 3 Bank is back up and running again.

Reviews
Typewriter Sizes
January 17th

One Empress-sized horse or a hundred Bennett sized ducks? Comparing some of the machines of different sizes to get an appreciation for different scales.

Machine
Bennett Portable
January 14th

Smaller than your average toy typewriter, this ultra-compact begs the question of whether it is possible to make a typewriter too small.

Repairs
A Minimalist Winder
December 19th

Who has time to wind their spools by hand? Here's a design for a simple tool to securely and safely wind up your spools with a drill or driver.

Machine
Hermes 3000 in Director Elite
December 1st

The only thing better than the curvy serifs of the Director font is having it available in this teeny pitch that lets you fill a page with that much more text.

Machine
Olivetti Lettera 32 in Katakana
November 1st

One of my blue (green?) whales, this Katakana machine makes the Lettera 32 an even more interesting piece.

Machine
Brother Portable in Katakana
October 29th

Ordinarily these late typewriters are worth skipping, however when we stumbled on this one while in Hokkaido, I immediately reserved space for it on the trip back.

Repairs
Sanding Down Platens
February 10th

I've never been a huge fan of the sanding method and after watching some videos, I figured I had a good candidate for trying it out again. This post talks through the ups and downs of that project as well as overall takeaways.