Yeah that's it...Corinthian leather.......
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: claire <clairetm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zuikies & Zuikettes <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:51 AM
Subject: [OM] ....personalising your OM...
> Dear Z & Z's,
> Anyone ever thot of /done customising your OM bodies with special types of
> leather ? Exotic leather ? say, ostrich skin, aligator skin, snake
skin,....
> something like those rather unique looking red-leathered, green-leathered,
> yellow-leathered OM-1N's I saw in a camera boutique here.... Someone
> should go into this upholstery business for camera bodies... hmmmmm...
maybe
> in connoly leather just like for cars too.... !!! Come to think of it,
maybe
> I'll just pop down to one of these shops and get a piece of nice leather
and
> do my own re-upholstery....
>
> If anyone out there has done it before, would U be willing to guide me
how
> to do it step by step on my OM-4Ti ? Thanks in advance....
>
> I'm thinking of zebra leather.(don't know whether available or not) .
that's
> really exotic.... black and white swathes against Ti top cover plate
......
>
> or python skin.....
>
> This should make us OMer's stand out from the crowd of polycarbonate
> friends.....and create so much envy and cause such a great revival of
OMer's
> that Olympus has to come back and support us once again..........
>
> I was reading one of the OMer's recent elation at getting a brand new
> OM-4Ti... then discovering this leather peeling off ever so slightly in
one
> of the corners of the body..... I was thinking, why not rip it all out and
> put back something one-of-a-kind......
>
> BTW, why are camera bodies always black ? Don't look 'professional' enough
?
>
> TMLee , Singapore
>
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