Final post on the quarter plate Moroccan case. The hooks I use are cut out by a engineering shop and I polish and color them before mounting them. They are mounted on brass nails that are splayed over the top of the hook by hitting them with a hammer. The eyelets are v shaped strips [...]

With Daguerreotype cases, face leathers are different to ones on the rails because of economy and ease of production. Goatskin covered rails as seen in the Ponte Vecchio cross case are hard to work and taken 3 times as long as with skiver. The face leathers though is where the quality aesthetic should be. Dying [...]

I tend to think of the woodwork as half the work in a case, the leather being the rest, but this changes as I come to do the leather and final fitting as I am always forced to remember how many hoops E. Anthony has me jumping through. The leather I use is vegetable tanned [...]

Once the hollow case block is formed it is shaped before splitting into the two halves. The case is constructed this way so that the two halves of the case will meet precisely in the interior dimensions which is important for the long life and functionality of the case. My construction methods come directly from [...]

“A beginning is a very delicate time…” The case frame must be constructed with exacting internal dimensions: the plate size plus the allowance for the pinch pad retainer. Early Daguerreotype cases and their predecessors, cases for portrait miniatures, had bevel joints connecting the rails but with required tension to hold the plate package securely these [...]