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  1. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    Vintage Sheaffers are excellent pens. I think you've done very well.
  2. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    The Mills Brothers - "The Glow Worm". "...You've got a cute vest-pocket Mazda, Which you can make glow slow, or faster..." Ever since I first heard this song, I've been dying to know what the hell a "Mazda" was. Today, I finally found out:
  3. Shangas

    Dark/sad vintage popular music

    How about "Nobody's Sweetheart", from 1927? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdAc3m-t2YY
  4. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    Certainly was. One reason moustaches became so popular in the 1800s was because men kept giving themselves nasty infections due to bugged up shaving-jobs. Cutting and nicking themselves all the time.
  5. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    I wouldn't dare cycling in snow like that!
  7. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Pizza and homemade banana cake.
  8. Shangas

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    Coldest I've ever had is -20'c, in Toronto, Canada, in midwinter.
  9. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    I was about to ask where the bobbins were! But now I see the storage for them on the bottom left side. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Singer Puzzle-Box actually won a design-award, didn't it? For innovation and creativity or originality or something. I'd love to buy a puzzle-box...
  10. Shangas

    Show us your waistcoats/Vests?

    There is another website like that called...Gentleman's Emporium or something. You could look there as well. Lapelled waistcoats are pretty rare these days, aren't they? I've never seen any being sold as new. Only vintage/antique reproductions.
  11. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    What the hell is a "tactical" fountain pen? Unless it fires jets of napalm when you work the filling mechanism, it ain't tactical.
  13. Shangas

    Dark/sad vintage popular music

    Not exactly 'sad' or 'creepy', but here's a bit of dark humor from Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0QZvHdSKo
  14. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    Noodler's Permanent Legal Black (or something to that effect) is supposed to be the most bomb-proof ink in the world. Fade-resistant, age-resistant, and sure as hell, stain-removal resistant. So long as you don't get it on any of your clothes that you prize very highly, you'll do fine. But...
  15. Shangas

    A Day That Will Live In Infamy

    I am not discounting America's affect and contribution to the War. I am discounting the fact that America on its own, WON THE WAR, which I think many people would disagree with, and which sadly, many other people tend to believe, for reasons I never understand. The whole "If we weren't here...
  16. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    Quink ("Quick Ink") came out in the 1920s, if memory serves. That being the case, it's nearly 100 years old. Deco-styled Quink-Bottle, popular in the 30s and 40s. Anything that's been in production THAT long, has GOT to be good. It's the only ink that I use with any regularity. Fountain...
  17. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Extra bobbins for my vintage vibrating-shuttle sewing machine. Price: Free.
  19. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    That is correct. Establish a photobucket account, load your photos onto that, and then load the photos FROM that onto the Lounge.
  20. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    Here's the mystery machine: I now believe this to be a Victorian-era "Domestic", manufactured in the United States. I base that wholly on the shape and style of the shuttle, which is the only thing I have to go on, unfortunately. There's no other markings on this machine apart from the...
  21. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    As some of you may know, I own two Singer sewing machines which I use every now and then. My grandmother's 1950s 99k, and a 1936 Singer 128... Anyone familiar with these older, vibrating-shuttle machines will probably know, one of the hardest, and most frustrating elements of operating these...
  22. Shangas

    Show us your vintage home!

    It might've been me. I found it very interesting.
  23. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That is the longest explanation I've ever seen in my life! Wowzers! Although I really don't understand the necessity for the opening statement: Thank goodness my eyesight and hearing would keep me off the battlefield.
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