1953 Remington Quiet-Riter #qr2734240
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Goode (vinylspin)
Created: 04-11-2024 at 12:22PM
Last Edit: 04-12-2024 at 07:14AM
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Description:
I found this on the shelf at a Phoenix area Goodwill, looking rusty and sad. I perked it up with a shiny new Sea Foam Green powdercoat job. The color is difficult to photograph well, but in person it's a pastel blue-green, trust me. :) I replaced the broken drawband with Kevlar cord from a kite supply place, since I'd already thrown convention out the window with the color. It should easily hold up for another half-century or so.
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- Xpress Metals, Phoenix AZ (who did the stripping and powdercoat prep)
- Glendale Powdercoating's Instagram (Sadly out-of-business shop in Glendale AZ who did the powdercoating)
Photos:
Hunter: Brian Goode (vinylspin)
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I am a retro post-punk meta-hipster, bassist, raconteur, techno-archivist, humorist, optimist, bon vivant and a fan of vinyl records, early 80's Japanese hi-fi gear, photography and obsolete but useful machines of all kinds. I am the proud owner of a 1970 Hermes 3000 and a 1940's Remington Rand typing desk.
I also created a typewriter image "filter" (see my avatar). It's written in Python and generates 65-character-wide images using over 1700 actual red-and-black-ribbon'd samples from my typewriter, meaning I could actually type them out myself on an 8 1/2" wide sheet of paper with 1" margins.
My dog Koa and I live in Buckeye, AZ.
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