I have an 8x10 Hobo with peephole finder and spring back. I had the camera modified with a usable GG and a focusing helical for the 120 SA that the camera was designed for. So it's no longer a fixed-focus box camera. It's fabulous: beautifully finished, compact, easy to carry and use. Surprisingly light weight, too. IIRC even with lens, it's less than what a 5x7 Speed weighs.
For a very small run, it might be substantially cheaper to commission someone to make a batch of wooden cameras than to pay for the mold(s) needed for a plastic camera, and it wouldn't necessarily be heavier, especially with a wide or ultrawide FL. If conceived as a body plus cone - the construction of my Hobo - it could allow for different FL's, too. Imagine, say, a box with interchangeable cones for a 90, a 120 and a 180 or 210. I could be happy, and Randy could be happy.
It ought to be much simpler and cheaper to make a box than to build a folding camera with folding mechanism, focusing bed, bellows, etc.
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