This Easter Corona Weekend, with very fine weather, and only being in and around the house, I finally found the time to make some lens boards for 3 of my British oldies which were desperately in need of them. I made 2 boards for each camera so I could use some different lenses or a lens/shutter combo.
The boards are used for:
- the British made Eastman (see other thread about restoring that camera);
- a Thornton Picard Imperial Perfecta;
- a Sanderson A-Pattern which uses round boards.
All boards are made of mahogany matching as much as possible the camera. For some boards I made a backing board of beech or oak in order to provide more support when carrying a heavy lens and for providing extra mass to the screws. Luckily I had just enough 'old' style screws to mount the different mounting rings.
In a first try a board was shattered since I hadn't it fixed thoroughly on a supporting board and because the speed for the hole saw was too low. Also sawing the center hole for the lens after sandwiching two boards is a bit tricky.
happy holidays...
Lens boards - DIY ( 1 ) by Ron (Netherlands), on Flickr
Lens boards - DIY ( 2 ) by Ron (Netherlands), on Flickr
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