I recently completed my second book on camera-making. Details and more info can be found here.
www.wetplatecameraplans.com
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I recently completed my second book on camera-making. Details and more info can be found here.
www.wetplatecameraplans.com
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Very cool, but I am hardly a woodworker.
Good luck!
Ty,Quote:
Originally Posted by T.G.
Does your book include a resource section? Particularly the brass furnishings.
Thanks.
ghostcount, most of the brasswork is made by me and I go over that and give sizes and thicknesses. For most supplies, I give where or what type of vendor sells them. I do not give a resource section due to that fact that vendors and merchandisers are "ever-changing." I have furniture how-to books that the resource section is completely invalid now.
Thanks Ty.
Looks like it will be a stocking stuffer for me.
My book arrived today. Quickly perused through it before the wife wrapped it up. :eek:
All I can say from what I briefly glanced at, it's a well made book and worth the investment. Particularly some detailed "Guillory secret sauces" solving problems that I pondered before but never realized.
It's going to be a long week and a half waiting to open this book up again. :(
That's a wonderful contribution. I'm the largest Festool dealer in the West, so have had a steady stream of pro woodworkers coming in here all day long (among
other trades). There's a long-time contractor who liked to take pictures of the employees with his Nikon over the years and then give them framed little pictures.
But now he shows up with a beautiful handheld mahogany 8x10 box camera and brass lens.
Drew, that is super cool about the contractor doing the pics of the employees!!
I still have to find the link to last year's Festool international woodworking contest. A bit of web search would give a hit. The no.2 winner made a lovely brass
wet plate camera.... But why it got so much attention was because of the matching mahog/brass/etc fold-up portable film room (as opposed to a traditional coating tent). Maybe ten grand or so for second place, which probably barely covered expenses; but the real benefit was worldwide free advertising for the cabinet maker,
who of course was the first subject to be taken by the photographer with his new wet plate system!