[Leica] leather case repairs

[wlarsen at ocsnet.net (Will)]

Try a shop that does saddles and bridles (tack) for horses or an old 
fashioned shoe repair shop...I sucessfully had my system case for the M3 
restiched by going to the local shoe repair shop.  The stinching is not 
original...but I was more concerned with functionality.  The saddle shop 
can easily replace pieces of leahter.  It was quite cheap, as I recall.

Rei Shinozuka wrote:

>i have some older cameras and lenses with leather cases in some instances 
>the 
>movable leather hinges have cracked or split or the stiches have come 
>undone.  
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>are there places which restore
>such things?  i don't expect it to be cheap, nor do i insist the repair be
>100% "authentic."  it's just that some of these cases are very handsome and
>it's a shame not to use them.  
>
>thanks in advance for any info.
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>-rei
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