On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, george jiri loun wrote:
> Why not to use the "original" material?
Well ... "original" material would be Moroccan Leather. This stuff has
become a bit difficult to find in sufficiently thin stock. I did locate
an importer here in the U.S. that could get it from a tannery in Italy,
but the minimum order was around $5000 and would have been more material
than I could have used in my lifetime.
I ordered leather samples from all of the tanneries in this country that I
found contact info for, and none were able to provide leather this
thin. So far the thinnest leather or leather like materials I've found
are from bookbinding supplies. Some of the samples I got from Denver
Bookbinding <http://www.denverbook.com/dbbcpl.htm> looked promising, but I
haven't tried using any of these.
> I have received professional bellows
> material from a Shutterbug advertiser Flexible Products Corp. in Florida.
> Their address is www.flexproducts.com . A very fairly priced, prof. quality,
> they will even help you with advice (they did to me, 12 years ago, I still
> have a lot of it, so cheap it was...-:)
Your experience from 12 years ago sounds pretty good. I called them a
couple years ago when I needed to locate some material, and they weren't
particularly helpful to me. Could be the guy I talked to was just having
a bad day, however he was more interested in selling me a bellows than the
material to make my own.
Besides, I don't think it hurts for us to explore other possibilities.
Some of these newer polyester or nylon materials are very durable and
water resistant if not waterproof.
- Wayde
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
_______________________________________________
Cameramakers mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers
