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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Immune to brassing!
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:58:23 +0200

Nah - titanium is not ugly - it´s the fake ostrich type leather (black calf hide with emu-texturing!) that is really weird.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: Ebert Steele <k5cad@prodigy.net>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 14. kesäkuuta 2000 1:02
Aihe: Re: [Leica] Re: Immune to brassing!
>
>Jim Brick wrote:
>> 
>> Because it's ugly.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> At 01:51 PM 6/13/00 -0400, Craig Roberts wrote:
>> >Why doesn't titanium sell?
>> >
>> >Craig
>> >Boston
>> >
>
>Not to this beholder. I love it. There is an M3 on eBay now. Ugly
>as sin with half its leatherette gone and pitting on the top
>plate. I have some plating experience. Ti is difficult to do. But
>I could do it and can see that M3 in Ti with the tan ostrich skin
>cover. 
>
>Steele
>