Mikiphone on Ebay

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Re: Mikiphone on Ebay

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saxymojo wrote:Making the pouch is not that hard, hand stitching it is the difficult time consuming part. I made my first leather horn elbow today for my Victor MS, I was thinking about making a few of them and selling them on ebay :D do you think there would be a market for these?
Marcel,

Why not start a thread and post some pictures of it? I imagine that there are people out there that would need replacement elbows (just as there are Mikiphones out there in need of pouches), although I’m not sure if you’d do better doing them on commission or via eBay.

If nothing else, we can drool over your handiwork—your chief engineer gave you a very good suggestion on the last replacement part you posted.

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Re: Mikiphone on Ebay

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Hi David
I attached a photo to the previous post.
Regards Marcel

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Re: Mikiphone on Ebay

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Marcel

You're obviously very good at what you do. Why not make a Mikiphone pouch in tan leather to the exact dimensions and style of one of the many originals which seem to be floating around at the present time? Then you'll know how good it will turn out and also how long it took you and how much you'd need to charge to make one on commission as MordEth says.

I'll place my order soon!

The elbow looks fine and better than some repro ones I've seen for sale for years.

Steve

PS What's next?

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Re: Mikiphone on Ebay

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Hi Steve
I just went back to ebay and saved the images to my desk top, when I am not so busy in the shop I will make one, or more. :P
Regards Marcel

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