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  Thursday  March 24  2005    09: 59 AM

big iron update

My Speed Graphic project slowly moves forward.The outside is pretty much refinished. The next stage will be cleaning and attaching the rangefinder, viewfinder, and strap. The strap in the bottom picture is actually for my Burke and James. One of my customers is Ace Leather Goods. They don't normally do things like camera straps but their master leather worker, Tracy, does the odd stuff. She is making one like it for the Speed graphic. A great strap. I also need to do some work on the focal plane shutter. I'll take another round of pictures when that is complete. the it will be time to install the parts that go inside like the bellows and the front lens standard.