question for those who built their own cameras

[jmcd]

Western Bellows made replacement bellows for my 5x7 Ansco, essentially non-tapering. I think the bellows are flexible and great.

[Daniel_Buck]

My first approach, and prototype, were made be me on a milling machine borrowed from a friend. Due to the large amount of time that ate up, I am now creating the final design in Goolge SketchUp, and then having a machine shop make the parts.

Same here, I'm roughing out the design in Maya, and then will start building it in Solidworks to be machined. I'm no good building things with my hands, but I'm good with a computer