> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001J.Wayde Allen wrote:
> > Why not to use the "original" material?
>
> Well ... "original" material would be Moroccan Leather.
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Would it?? Why not the "original" material from Wista cameras for . ex??
Pretty the same as the one from flexproducts...
> 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.
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Your experience sounds pretty useful for the rest of us.
> > 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.
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Well, next time try perhaps with more kindness, maybe that will help. It did
for me, even if they were 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.
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I agree. The material I got from flexproducts is a very durable nylon,
water resistant if not waterproof. It doesn't hurt to explore that
possibility from flexproducts either. George
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