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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    I have an Ansco Studio stand camera that I've taken apart and started to refurbish. Hopefully I'll have it complete by next year when we plan to move North. It definitely needs alot of display space.
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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    Quote Originally Posted by Doug Howk View Post
    I have an Ansco Studio stand camera that I've taken apart and started to refurbish. Hopefully I'll have it complete by next year when we plan to move North. It definitely needs alot of display space.
    I really like the look of the old studio cameras with their wooden stands. My wife likes them too.

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    Go to Blue Ridge Woodworking and click onto the Festool video showing a matching dark box and wet plate camera under construction. They won 2nd place in last
    yrs Festool project competition. If one of my own customers did a "camera as furniture" project it would easily sell for 50K, maybe more. Some of them sell coffee
    tables or deck benches for more than that apiece.

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    Quote Originally Posted by Drew Wiley View Post
    Go to Blue Ridge Woodworking and click onto the Festool video showing a matching dark box and wet plate camera under construction. They won 2nd place in last
    yrs Festool project competition. If one of my own customers did a "camera as furniture" project it would easily sell for 50K, maybe more. Some of them sell coffee
    tables or deck benches for more than that apiece.
    Pretty cool, Drew!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA9goESAtw

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    Most anything by Folmer & Schwing...

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    If I wish to get super critical....I'd build the unit from scratch. This way it would have a visual balance (wood grain, interesting combination of woods, made precisely, have a desired finish, etc) and be a functional
    as well.

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Moe View Post
    5x7 Elwood fully restored. Use 500 watt CFL, high contrast neg and white paper on baseboard.

    Turn off remote room lighting and turn on Elwood. She will look correct, heat won't be a problem and could be tilted for wall projection 'a la Magic Lantern.

    That should wow em in Peoria.
    Kick it up a notch to 8x10 Elwood and you'll have a perfect platform for warming tortillas, or better yet---making nachos! Imagine that---you'll be able to feed your audience during those s-l-o-w side shows!

    I have one ready. I want to rechrome Ms Elwood's dome (hat) inside and out. Powder coat the entire chassis in an interesting color, mount new red bellow and torture my friends with the slowest slide show ever...
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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    I have always wished that I had negotiated the purchase of this loan. It was a very cool thing to have around the house:



    Michael, and Camera

    by Michael Darnton, on Flickr
    Thanks, but I'd rather just watch:
    Large format: http://flickr.com/michaeldarnton
    Mostly 35mm: http://flickr.com/mdarnton
    You want digital, color, etc?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stradofear

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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    I love the black Senecas, with the polished nickel trim. Otherwise, one of the classic British field cameras would be my choice.


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    Re: What is the most beautiful piece of furniture?

    I once owned a (non-functional) 8x10 R.O.C. "Carlton". Some of the most beautiful mahogany and wood-working I've ever seen. It was, I believe, from the 1890s. If I was in your situation, I'd look for a c.1900 camera... the older you look, often, the better the wood and the craftsmanship will be.

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