Analog Pursuit
Some Things are Worth the Weight
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Weddings & Events
A guest book they’ll remember writing.
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Film & Production
Period-correct machines that actually type.
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Writers & Artists
Take one home for a week or a month.
Our Featured Typewriters
Vintage Typewriter Rentals | Eureka, CA
The Statesman
1935 Remington Rand Model 1
The Cooper ‘58
1958 Olympia SM3
Silhouette
1968 Olivetti Lettera 33
Key Lime
1954 Royal Keystone
Drawn from a private collection built over more than a decade, Analog Pursuit rents beautifully maintained vintage typewriters for weddings, film and television productions, and for writers and artists throughout Humboldt County. Whatever your pursuit, there's a machine waiting for you.
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There's a moment after the page comes off the platen where the typing is done but the letter isn't finished. The signature. The name on the envelope. The one line at the top you wanted in your own hand. That's this pen's job.
The Fudenosuke is a small, firm brush pen — an extra-fine elastomer tip with just enough give that pressure alone carries you from a hairline to a full stroke. No dipping, no nib to break in, no long apprenticeship before it looks like anything. Lean into the downstroke, lift on the upstroke, and you're doing brush lettering.
The ink is water-based pigment: black, opaque, odorless, and water-resistant once dry. That last part matters more than it sounds like it should. It matters when the page is a guest book about to be handled by two hundred people at a reception, and it matters when the envelope has to survive a Humboldt December between your mailbox and someone else's.
The hard tip is the one to start with. It's steadier than the soft tip and holds a consistent line while you're still finding your hand.
Firm extra-fine brush tip — line width varies with pressure
Black water-based pigment ink; water-resistant when dry
Odorless, non-refillable
Recycled polypropylene barrel
Includes Tombow's kanji positioning template (works fine as a plain guideline card)
Great for addressing envelopes, titling a typed page, signing a letter like you mean it, and guest books that deserve better than a ballpoint.
We are not going to pretend a typewriter has an undo key. Not having one is most of the appeal. But there is a difference between a draft that shows its thinking and a letter with a typo in the recipient’s name, and for the latter, you want this in the drawer.
The MONO Air Touch is correction tape built into a slim, pen-shaped body — it rides in a pen case instead of rattling around loose. What sets it apart is the Air Touch mechanism: an internal gear that unlocks when the head meets paper and locks the instant you lift it. The tape lays down under almost no pressure and cuts clean at the end, with no hard press and no trailing tail. Better still, it stays that light all the way down to the last inch, which is exactly where most correction tape starts fighting you.
It is refillable. The cartridge snaps out, a new one snaps in, and the applicator is the part you keep. The tape is 5mm wide — narrow enough to take out one mistyped word without whiting out the whole line. A pivoting head follows the paper, a cover protects the tip in your bag, and there is no drying time: write over it the moment it is down.
• Slim pen-style body — fits a pen case
• Air Touch system: light, consistent application from first use to last
• Refillable snap-in cartridge (refill: CT-PAR5)
• 5mm × 6m white tape
• Pivoting head and automatic tape lock for skip-free lines
• Protective tip cover
• No drying time — write over it immediately
Everyone needs that one pen you can clip to a notebook, hand to a stranger, lose for a week and find again under the platen. This is that pen, and it happens to be very good.
The MONO Graph Lite pairs a 0.5mm high-precision needle tip with ultra-low-viscosity oil-based ink, which is the technical way of saying it moves like a gel pen and behaves like a ballpoint — smooth, no skipping, and no wet line waiting to smear across the side of your hand. The needle tip is slim and exposed, so you can see exactly where the line is going. That makes it a good pen for margins, for corrections written between typed lines, for addressing an envelope, and for filling out a form on a clipboard in bad light.
The grip is a densely textured rubber that holds without going tacky. The tip retracts, so there is no cap to lose, and the pen refills, so it does not have to be disposable.
The barrel wears the MONO livery — the blue, white and black stripe that has been on Tombow’s erasers since 1969 and is very likely the most recognized stationery design in Japan.
• 0.5mm high-precision needle tip
• Ultra-low viscosity oil-based ink — gel-like glide, ballpoint reliability
• Textured grip — firm hold without stickiness
• Retractable tip; no cap to lose
• Refillable
• Blue, white and black striped MONO barrel
• Writes in black
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