Typewriter Talk / Olympia SF From 1975 Yugoslavia...

**Posted by Pete E.** **Online!** 24-2-2024 11:45:00

Good job Mike !

If you want to lighten up the look a bit, you might consider painting the space-bar and the 2 shift key-top an ivory colour.

Or maybe start with the space-bar, first...

That will bring the ivory colour of the carriage components forward.

**Posted by mikeytap** 24-2-2024 12:44:30

mikeytap wrote:
. . . but a pain in the a@# to mask off. Pete has the right idea to accent paint the tops only.

I chose to remove the logo badges with a razor blade to the underside, and reattached with small blobs of epoxy.

Good idea.

**Posted by Pete E.** **Online!** 25-2-2024 13:42:30

This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
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**Posted by mikeytap** 25-2-2024 15:01:24

Pete E. wrote:
This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
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They can put denim on just about anything. I have a Fender Princeton amp like this one clad in denim. Fans of the show Portlandia know how they dressed up everyday items: "put a bird on it!"

**Posted by Gabby Johnson** 25-2-2024 20:59:51

Pete E. wrote:
Hi George,

Here is a paint-job that I am probably not brave enough to pull off...
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Might as well go complete Piet Mondrian;

**Posted by Pete E.** **Online!** 26-2-2024 08:03:24

Gabby,

I keep waiting for someone to do a Trompe-l'œil treatment on one of those Olivetti-Underwood 21s where the inner workings of a typewriter are shown in 3D perspective to open up to the guts of a modern PC.

I have one of those typewriters...but love mine as-is...since it looks so Swedish.
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**Posted by Pete E.** **Online!** 26-2-2024 08:08:58

Mike,

I have an old pair of these in a nice rustic "camel" colour hanging somewhere in the back of my closet.

Maybe I have room for one more Traveller in my life...???...
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**Posted by mikeytap** 26-2-2024 12:24:05

Pete E. wrote:
Mike,

I have an old pair of these in a nice rustic "camel" colour hanging somewhere in the back of my closet.

Maybe I have room for one more Traveller in my life...???...
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Ok, just one more, then we're closing the window on those.

**Posted by OlivWriter** 27-2-2024 11:51:27

Pete E. wrote:
This is the photo that got me to thinking about only adding a splash of colour to the ribbon covers on the Travellers.

Singer/song-writer Neil Diamond had a hit out some decades ago..."Forever In Blue Jeans".

It looks like someone did a denim fabric wrap on the Traveller.
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I love the jean style !