Step Inside Our Workshop
Come Inside. See Where It All Happens.
Every typewriter we sell represents far more than the finished typing machine you see on the table. Behind it is a working typewriter workshop, decades of hands-on experience, thousands of typewriter parts, specialist tools, careful restoration, mechanical testing, packing and a commitment to keeping these classic typing machines working for the next generation.
2. THE PART PEOPLE DON'T SEE!
What Happens Before a Typewriter Reaches You?
A restored typewriter can look deceptively simple.
You see the finished typing machine — the paint, the keys, the carriage and the ribbon. What you don't see is everything that happened before that photograph was taken.
Before a vintage typewriter is ready for its new owner, it may need to be sourced, assessed, dismantled, cleaned, repaired, adjusted and tested. Typewriter parts have to be found, inspected or restored. In some cases, other machines are retained as donor typewriters, providing components that can help keep another machine working.
And all of this requires space.
A lot of space.
3. INVENTORY — THE PART PEOPLE DON'T SEE
We Keep More Than Finished Typewriters.
4. THE SCALE OF THE INVENTORY
Decades of Typewriters. Parts. Cases. Materials.
Our workshop contains typewriters in different conditions and at different stages of their lives.
Some are ready for restoration.
Some are being dismantled.
Some are retained for parts.
Others are waiting for the right component, the right technician or the right time to be brought back into service.
This inventory has been accumulated over years — not assembled overnight.
5. WHY WE KEEP PARTS
Sometimes, One Typewriter Keeps Another Alive.
With modern products, replacing a failed component can be as simple as ordering another one.
With a decades-old typewriter, it often isn't.
A small spring, lever, gear, keytop, carriage component or mechanical assembly may no longer be manufactured. Finding the correct typewriter part can therefore be the difference between a machine remaining unusable and bringing it back into working condition.
That's why we maintain an extensive collection of typewriter parts and donor machines.
What looks like old inventory to someone else can be the exact component needed to restore another typewriter.
6. THE WORKSHOP — IN-HOUSE RESTORATION
This Is Where the Restoration Happens.
Restoration isn't performed by simply wiping a typewriter down and putting it in a box.
Our in-house typewriter restoration work involves understanding the individual mechanical systems that make each typing machine function — the carriage, platen, escapement, ribbon system, typebars, keyboard mechanism and the many small adjustments that determine how the typewriter actually behaves when you type.
Each machine is assessed on its own condition. Some jobs are straightforward. Others require considerably more time, careful adjustment, replacement typewriter parts and hands-on experience.
The objective is simple: to return the typewriter to proper working condition while preserving what makes that particular machine what it is.
8. CUSTOM PAINT & FINISHING
Good Paint Doesn't Come From a Spray Can.
A beautiful typewriter finish doesn't happen by simply picking up a spray can and giving the body a coat of paint.
For our custom-painted typewriters, we go considerably further.
We develop and work with automotive-grade paint systems, carefully prepared and applied for the level of finish we expect from a professionally restored typing machine.
That gives us considerably more control over colour, finish, consistency and surface quality — and it's one of the reasons we're able to offer typewriters in such a wide range of colors while maintaining the clean, deep and pristine finish you see in our photographs.
We're not interested in making an old typewriter look painted.
We want it to look properly finished.
9. TYPEWRITER SPARE PARTS
Keeping Typewriters Working Takes More Than Typewriters.
A typewriter can be beautifully restored, but eventually a worn component may need to be replaced.
That's why we don't only work with complete typewriters. We also manufacture, source, stock and supply standard typewriter spare parts for machines that have been in use for decades.
From commonly required components to parts that can be surprisingly difficult to find, maintaining availability means keeping an extensive spare-parts inventory and continuing to work with the components that keep these typing machines operational.
And when a part is needed, it doesn't stop at the workshop.
We pack and dispatch spare parts to customers, technicians and typewriter owners who need them.
10. READY TYPEWRITERS & DISPATCH
Ready to Go. Ready for the Journey.
After the restoration, adjustments and testing are complete, the typewriter is ready for its new owner.
But being ready to sell is only part of the process. Before a restored typewriter leaves our workshop, it has to be prepared for the journey ahead.
We keep substantial quantities of packing materials, protective foam, cartons and other shipping supplies specifically for this purpose. Each typewriter is carefully secured and packed so that the work carried out inside our workshop is protected all the way to its destination.
The finished, stacked boxes you see here are not empty cartons waiting for products.
They are restored typewriters, packed and ready for dispatch.
The restoration may happen inside the workshop. The responsibility continues until the typewriter reaches you.
11. THE TYPEWRITER REACHES ITS OWNER
And Then, It Reaches Someone Who Will Use It.
After all the sourcing, restoration, testing and careful packing, there is one part of the process that matters most:
The typewriter reaches its new owner.
A restored typewriter leaves our workshop not simply as a product that has been sold, but as a typing machine that has been prepared, protected and sent on its way to someone who is going to use it, collect it, write on it or give it a new place in their life.
That final moment — opening the parcel and receiving the typewriter safely — is what all the work before it is ultimately for.
