Congratulations on the first edition. This is the first time I’ve heard of the title.
The SG-1 looks great. I don’t have one. Maybe one day an SG-1 or SG-3. I’ve been sceptical to add one since Olympias and me do not get along. I out type them at even my slow speed of touch typing. 2 finger-thumb method I’m ok on any typewriter.
Touch typing takes time and practice. I used Mavis Beacon Teaches typing to brush up on my keyboarding years ago. I think it is still available. Not the best for touch typing. A typing chart, a set of old Smith-Corona LPs, and an old high school typing book seems best for what is out there today. No more teachers calling out letter exercises or rhythm.
Good to hear the knobs arrived. I remove the collars from the platen shaft and clean the knurling good before I put the adhesive on for the knobs. It is also easier to hold the knobs centered when the hubs are off.
It would be hard for me to imagine someone out-typing an SG1. Standards are a whole different ballgame. I do have one of those books, and I have used it a bit. I think I need to practice more deliberately. It’s hard undoing bad habits. I have a hard time placing fingers in the right position on the right side of the bottom row.
Thanks again for the knobs. I’m going to pick up epoxy this week. I also have to study your blog post on it—and learn those pesky vocab words. I can’t seem to graduate beyond the world of words like “round thingy” or “thingamajig that moves.”
The thingamajig that moves can often be confused with a spurious framus. In truth a whatchamacallit will do just fine in either case.
Lucky find. I have an ancient copy of Brave New World. It’s a treat just to hold one of these books.
Regarding paper, being a New Englander, I have a horrible time with waste. It’s a thrifty thing I suppose. At any rate, I will use my backing sheet until it has more holes than a slice of swiss cheese. When it’s on the last breath, I can use it for a first draft.
Good luck on your adventure in touch typing. I gave up. Like you, I just can’t make myself sit down to actually do it. I do however have a real good sense of where the keys are and can hunt and peck like no other. Now if I could just train one eye to watch the page while the other navigates the keyboard, I’d be all set. How do birds do it?
Ha. Yeah, I feel a bit guilty about the paper. There was a sale and I gave in. I still am looking for that perfect balance between quality and environmentalism.
Although I’m something of an amateur expert on Huxley, I haven’t read that one. Ken Russell, that cinematic master of bad taste, made it into a movie with Oliver Reed in 1971. Someone on IMDB says of it that “evidently Ken Russell took many of the historical facts in Aldous Huxley’s ‘The Devils of Loudon’ and added large parts from ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and what looks to be a particularly over-the-top college production of ‘Marat/Sade.'” Ouch.
I bought a 500-page package of Southworth paper, but it feels too luxurious for ordinary use, and I’ll probably never use it up! It’s a bit ironic, but I can’t make myself.
I’d so love to have an SG1, but I wouldn’t trust a stranger to ship one, and every local example I’ve found looks as if it had been attacked with a golf club.
I don’t know. That film sounds so bad that it might be bad good, or good bad. I’ve always enjoyed the film, Maximum Overdrive, because it is so damn stupid.
Yeah. I’ve had only one standard shipped, and that was by a friend–plus the shipping cost more than the typewriter. These SG1s are out there, but it’s all a matter of luck.
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Congratulations on the first edition. This is the first time I’ve heard of the title.
The SG-1 looks great. I don’t have one. Maybe one day an SG-1 or SG-3. I’ve been sceptical to add one since Olympias and me do not get along. I out type them at even my slow speed of touch typing. 2 finger-thumb method I’m ok on any typewriter.
Touch typing takes time and practice. I used Mavis Beacon Teaches typing to brush up on my keyboarding years ago. I think it is still available. Not the best for touch typing. A typing chart, a set of old Smith-Corona LPs, and an old high school typing book seems best for what is out there today. No more teachers calling out letter exercises or rhythm.
Good to hear the knobs arrived. I remove the collars from the platen shaft and clean the knurling good before I put the adhesive on for the knobs. It is also easier to hold the knobs centered when the hubs are off.
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It would be hard for me to imagine someone out-typing an SG1. Standards are a whole different ballgame. I do have one of those books, and I have used it a bit. I think I need to practice more deliberately. It’s hard undoing bad habits. I have a hard time placing fingers in the right position on the right side of the bottom row.
Thanks again for the knobs. I’m going to pick up epoxy this week. I also have to study your blog post on it—and learn those pesky vocab words. I can’t seem to graduate beyond the world of words like “round thingy” or “thingamajig that moves.”
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The thingamajig that moves can often be confused with a spurious framus. In truth a whatchamacallit will do just fine in either case.
Lucky find. I have an ancient copy of Brave New World. It’s a treat just to hold one of these books.
Regarding paper, being a New Englander, I have a horrible time with waste. It’s a thrifty thing I suppose. At any rate, I will use my backing sheet until it has more holes than a slice of swiss cheese. When it’s on the last breath, I can use it for a first draft.
Good luck on your adventure in touch typing. I gave up. Like you, I just can’t make myself sit down to actually do it. I do however have a real good sense of where the keys are and can hunt and peck like no other. Now if I could just train one eye to watch the page while the other navigates the keyboard, I’d be all set. How do birds do it?
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Ha. Yeah, I feel a bit guilty about the paper. There was a sale and I gave in. I still am looking for that perfect balance between quality and environmentalism.
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Although I’m something of an amateur expert on Huxley, I haven’t read that one. Ken Russell, that cinematic master of bad taste, made it into a movie with Oliver Reed in 1971. Someone on IMDB says of it that “evidently Ken Russell took many of the historical facts in Aldous Huxley’s ‘The Devils of Loudon’ and added large parts from ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and what looks to be a particularly over-the-top college production of ‘Marat/Sade.'” Ouch.
I bought a 500-page package of Southworth paper, but it feels too luxurious for ordinary use, and I’ll probably never use it up! It’s a bit ironic, but I can’t make myself.
I’d so love to have an SG1, but I wouldn’t trust a stranger to ship one, and every local example I’ve found looks as if it had been attacked with a golf club.
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I don’t know. That film sounds so bad that it might be bad good, or good bad. I’ve always enjoyed the film, Maximum Overdrive, because it is so damn stupid.
Yeah. I’ve had only one standard shipped, and that was by a friend–plus the shipping cost more than the typewriter. These SG1s are out there, but it’s all a matter of luck.
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