Kudos to Grimes

[William Whitaker]

Just got an order back from SK Grimes today and as usual, it is spot-on. In addition to a couple of lens mountings, they adapted a lens chuck to a Sinar board with a Delrin spacer so that the knobs overhang the front panel of the camera with no interference (shown on my Canham). I have another just-slightly-smaller lens chuck on a Sinar board. But the slight difference in size is significant: this one will swallow a Betax 5 shutter as shown. The Delrin adapter is perfect, as is the workmanship. Adam and Joel do a great job. It's not cheap. But it's reasonable for the skill and labor involved. Besides, it's nice to have things work right the first time and with no excuses.

[Jim Galli]

In my next life, I want to be S. K. Grimes

I love quality.

[Oren Grad]

They're working on a similar job for me right now - figuring out how to shoehorn a slightly-too-large iris clamp into the front standard of an Anniversary Speed Graphic. I'm eagerly awaiting the result.

[Oren Grad]

...and here it is!

A spacer was needed to allow the clamp to clear the uprights of the front standard on the Graphic. In the picture on the right, a larger one they mounted for me a while back, on a Sinar-type board.

[Tracy Storer]

Yeah, Steve would be proud of the good work Adam and Co. are doing....always a pleasure to deal with them.

[Graybeard]

No question that the work is of high quality. I've had a couple of front mounts done by SKGrimes over the past year and they are well executed, indeed.

Do Adam & Co. require more time to complete a job than was the case in earlier days or is a two month turnaround (my experience) just what such work entails?

Yeah, Steve would be proud of the good work Adam and Co. are doing....always a pleasure to deal with them.

[cdholden]

Keep in mind that praising posts like these don't make their backlog of work any shorter.

[Graybeard]

Is it actually a backlog of work from eager customers swamping the shop or a local practice of only sending completed work out for black anodizing (final cosmetic finishing) only once a month?

Keep in mind that praising posts like these don't make their backlog of work any shorter.

[Oren Grad]

Do Adam & Co. require more time to complete a job than was the case in earlier days or is a two month turnaround (my experience) just what such work entails?

Turnaround on this one was about 10 weeks.

[Bob McCarthy]

Keep in mind that praising posts like these don't make their backlog of work any shorter.

I would think we should be grateful, considering the weakness in the general film industry.

Bob