I'll have to echo Strikethru. I think the early ones look very cool but of the two I've had neither was very nice to type on at all.
I know what you mean about finding a sweet spot in collecting. I've found one particular SM-3 that pretty much gets all the use because no other machine that I have or have had is as nice as it is. I like it enough that any "new" machine I pick up is either because it is cheap or because I'm curious, but the new ones never seem to get used very long.
Yeah, I hear you both. It is probably more looks and hype than anything else.
I can say that nothing I pick up from here on out is going to beat the typewriters I have now for writing. I have a good collection of high performing models.
While I may pick up a fixer-upper, I don't see me ever spending more than $20 or so on anything else.
Well...I appear to be in the minority here, but I *really* liked my Hermes 3000. They are very different from other typewriters, though - take a very light touch.
That said, I let mine go during the great LFP typewriter purge of twenty-ten, while I kept both SM-9s. It wasn't even really a conscious decision...but maybe it says something about my true feelings. Or something.
But so what happens when you have an SG-1, but then you happen across this whole other SG-1 that's somehow even more awesome than the one you've got? Like, for instance, this weekend at Richard Polt's house (that's typosphere name-dropping), I tried out his SG-1 which types just as superbly as my own, but which he had auto-shop-painted a mind-blowingly beautiful metallic blug-green. Luckily it wasn't for sale. I might have had to fist-fight my way into a bid, and I ain't much for fist-fighting.
I still say those Hermes 3k's are overrated.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to echo Strikethru. I think the early ones look very cool but of the two I've had neither was very nice to type on at all.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about finding a sweet spot in collecting. I've found one particular SM-3 that pretty much gets all the use because no other machine that I have or have had is as nice as it is. I like it enough that any "new" machine I pick up is either because it is cheap or because I'm curious, but the new ones never seem to get used very long.
Yeah, I hear you both. It is probably more looks and hype than anything else.
ReplyDeleteI can say that nothing I pick up from here on out is going to beat the typewriters I have now for writing. I have a good collection of high performing models.
While I may pick up a fixer-upper, I don't see me ever spending more than $20 or so on anything else.
Well...I appear to be in the minority here, but I *really* liked my Hermes 3000. They are very different from other typewriters, though - take a very light touch.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I let mine go during the great LFP typewriter purge of twenty-ten, while I kept both SM-9s. It wasn't even really a conscious decision...but maybe it says something about my true feelings. Or something.
But so what happens when you have an SG-1, but then you happen across this whole other SG-1 that's somehow even more awesome than the one you've got?
ReplyDeleteLike, for instance, this weekend at Richard Polt's house (that's typosphere name-dropping), I tried out his SG-1 which types just as superbly as my own, but which he had auto-shop-painted a mind-blowingly beautiful metallic blug-green.
Luckily it wasn't for sale. I might have had to fist-fight my way into a bid, and I ain't much for fist-fighting.
Make that blue-green, not blug-green. Blug-green doesn't sound very mind-blowingly beautiful.
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