Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
Early on, Dick Philips made some holders. I don't know if he ever made any 7x17 or not. The ones I had were 12x20 and were painted all black, but so was the camera. Anyway, he used a similar metal plate with the groove in it at the light trap end there to very good effect.
I would be inclined to not purchased from anyone unless you are able to determine the T depth, the dimension from the window of the light trap notch, and length and width of the carcass. They all varied on the older cameras and until the modern cameras settled on Korona values, they were all over the map, even within Korona, actually (within some limits, I believe they always used the same T-depth).
The look to be quality holders. Be aware that the metal notch on the light trap plate will 'chew' at your camera if you aren't conscientious about pulling the notch out of the camera without letting it grind against the camera frame. This is likely to be especially a problem with an old camera. A new one with new wood probably won't suffer too much for a while.
---Michael
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
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Michael Mutmansky
Early on, Dick Philips made some holders...
I'm not certain Dick made those himself. I have a vague recollection that he had them made by either Great Basin, of contact print frame fame, or Alan Brubaker.
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
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Sal Santamaura
I'm not certain Dick made those himself. I have a vague recollection that he had them made by either Great Basin, of contact print frame fame, or Alan Brubaker.
Right... I think you are correct, and in fact, it was Great Basin that he used if I recall correctly, and they used a metal registration and lighttrap piece on the end...
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
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Tim Meisburger
For that price I would consider making them myself. I've often wondered why someone doesn't tool up and just sell stock moldings. The you could just buy a kit and pretty easily make any size you wanted. Maybe Sandy has he tooling and would be willing to sell stock moldings.
Running the profiles is fairly straight-forward. The tedious part is all the detail work required for the joinery and light traps after the profiles are cut to length.
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Colin Graham
Running the profiles is fairly straight-forward. The tedious part is all the detail work required for the joinery and light traps after the profiles are cut to length.
Yes, but its only tedious if you have to do it for a living! If you are just sitting around with no time pressure that kind of intricate joinery can be relaxing, at least for me. I wouldn't make 4x5 or 5x7, but from about 8x10 up it would be worth considering, especially if I could get something like milled cherry, or a nice mahogany. I guess you would also need something nice for dark slides.
We don't have enough kits any more. We should have Bender 8x10 kits and 7x11 kits and all sorts of banquet size kits, plus kits for spring backs and kits for holders. The damn world is going to hell in a hand basket...
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
The link for these holder has the condition as new.
So if they were made in the United states the maker should be known by some one on this site.
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
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Tim Meisburger
Yes, but its only tedious if you have to do it for a living! If you are just sitting around with no time pressure that kind of intricate joinery can be relaxing, at least for me. I wouldn't make 4x5 or 5x7, but from about 8x10 up it would be worth considering, especially if I could get something like milled cherry, or a nice mahogany. I guess you would also need something nice for dark slides.
We don't have enough kits any more. We should have Bender 8x10 kits and 7x11 kits and all sorts of banquet size kits, plus kits for spring backs and kits for holders. The damn world is going to hell in a hand basket...
Hey by all means- if you think there's a market for it offer some kits.
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
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RichardRitter
The link for these holder has the condition as new.
So if they were made in the United states the maker should be known by some one on this site.
I wonder if modern wood holders have identifying maker marks.
I have 5 of your very nice all black :) 11x14 holders, but I see no identifier on the outside, I didn't check inside right now as they are loaded.
I know fake anything is possible, but we may be fooled, while the maker would not.
Re: Stamped Made in USA shipping from china 7x17 film holders?
Do a search for Calumet Holders on the same site. They look identical and are sourced from China.
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Pete Roody
Do a search for Calumet Holders on the same site. They look identical and are sourced from China.
yeah, the calumet's are what I was referring to seeing which were similar too.