Originally posted by bobbotron Anyway, good luck with it, if you get around to it! I would *strongly* recommend you make a prototype/testing camera before you make a nice one. Making the two silly box cameras, I learned a lot of interesting lessons. At the end of #2, I figured that by #4 I'll make something really slick. Sadly I've since moved and don't have a great wood working workshop any more, so any more are on hold. You're lucky as a guitar maker, you're probably set up well for this kind of thing!
I pretty much learned the importance of -- well not prototyping, but resigning myself to the fact that my first couple of guitars would look pretty butt ugly. And they did. But fortunately they still sounded really good. The woods, you know. So yeah, I'd pretty much follow the same game plan with building my own camera.
Sadly, you and I are in the same boat with regard to workshops. I also moved a while back and lost my shop. I used to have a nice little shop space behind my garage. Nothing like that at the new house. About all I can hope for is some extra room in the garage and the possibility of walling it up so that I can have humidity control. What I really want to do is add another shop onto the back of this garage like I used to have. But I don't have any idea when or if that's ever gonna happen. So I'm also pretty well stalled out right now -- at least when it comes to the aspect of the craft that involves making lots of dust and shavings -- which is most of it.