Re: [Leica] Nikon Adapters for R

["Wilber Jeffcoat" <wilber@jeffcoatphotography.com>]

Best of luck. Love the story about the pistol. That model is a MONSTER,
really more like a canon. Love the memories.
Cheers Wilber
- -----Original Message-----
From: George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon Adapters for R


>wilber@jeffcoatphotography.com (Wilber Jeffcoat)9/27/006:46 PM
>
>> In my looking for this same type of set up I was told that this
>is a custom
>> job. Do you know a good machinist?
>
>Yes. My father spent his life as a tool & die maker. And he's
>made some beautiful things for my adiction to photo gizmos. He
>also made, from raw stock, a .44 caliber cap and ball Navy
>Dragoon, a truly beautiful thing to behold and shoot. He gave it
>the serial number which corresponds to marrying my mother;
>romantic that he is. I have a marvelous photo of him shooting the
>monster, at the moment that the pistol is surrounded by the smoke
>from the black powder, and the grin on his face is as big as I
>ever saw on him - but he's at the age where his memories of
>making things have more reality than the making of new ones. And
>yet he's not ready to release his milling machine or lathe to his
>son. If he didn't live 90 miles away, I'd give it a shot.
>
>George
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