[78-L] Can't believe it !!!

[David Weiner]

Bags Unlimited makes nice quality black leatherette riveted 78 albums, but
they only hold five records and retail for around $25 each. Still, I've
bought a bunch of them for my nicer discs.

Dave Weiner

On 2/24/14, 2:19 PM, "Iñigo Cubillo" <ice261263 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Recently I approached a bookbinder's workshop in search of newly made
>record albums.
>
>I carried with me one of those brown Decca albums bounded with screws,
>etc,
>as a model to copy. I believe this is a good album system, as far as they
>have resisted well the last 70 years. It seems cheap and easy to made. In
>Spain they use that kind of lids and bounding system with screws, for many
>documents.
>All good except for the quality of the cardboard sleeves that Decca used
>back in the 40s, which is that brown stuff that tends to get darker and
>tear apart.
>
>I showed to the guy at the workshop the whole system, and left there the
>album simply to copy it and give me and assessment of the cost for 170
>units (with better quality cardboard sleeves, and without the artwork
>pressed in the lids, Morocco style).
>
>$70/each. That is what I got... !!!     The original was bought at Nauck's
>at $5 a piece...
>
>I would have to make the albums myself.
>
>Inigo
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