-----Original Message----- From: MANGUM,MARK Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:37 AM
This is not for the faint of heart. I relatively new to the list, but I do love my Pentax's so please bear with me. I have finished a project of rebuilding a couple of K1000's and had two bodies left over. This led me to thinking (Yes, I know I shouldn't do that), what would a BLACK K1000 look like. I purchased a special leather kit from cameraleather.com and stripped a body down to see what a paint job would need. I tested a couple of different paints and cleaners and settled on a gloss black. The flat and satin paints just didn't look right. To see the final camera go to the cameraleather web site at http://www.cameraleather.com/pentax and go to the bottom of the page. The K1000 with the green background is the finished product. Let me know what you think. I a dedicated Pentax user so I have thick skin. It did turn out better than I had expected and even I like it. Mark Mangum - Mark, Interesting. I was looking at the site yesterday and noted the black K1000. I thought it looked nice, good work. But then again I have two of my four LXen snake-skinned. Go to http://cesar_abdul.home.midspring.com/LX_skin.html to view my 'exotic' LXen. César Panama City, Florida - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
