JohnBarton Report post Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) My customer ordered this one for himself and the Poor Knight as a gift to his brother. We worked on this design for quite a while. My customer was inspired by the leather work done by Skyhorse leather and wanted something with a similar feel to it. So this is what came out of that collaboration. The Portuguese Royal coat of arms is inlaid and hand painted. The silhouette of Portugal on the front is a custom embossed piece. As always we took longer than we thought to finish this case. However I suppose when you are getting something meant to be used for a lifetime and passed on to your children then it's worth the wait. You can see a video presentation of these two cases here; Notice the custom Puzzle Latch. You have to watch the video to see this one in action. We spent about a day working on this latch to make it perfect. All the tooling done by Zhen Hai Lee. Zhen Hai has left us to go back to his hometown and open his own studio. He will still be doing work for us but not as my in-house tooler any longer. His own work has taken off and he needs to devote more time to building his business. Thanks for looking at the Portugal case. - The Poor Knight to follow in another post. Edited January 11, 2011 by JohnBarton Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toddo Report post Posted January 13, 2011 Wow, that is really beautiful. Did you do the painting on top of the dye? Or do you do the painting and then mask it with something and then dye over top? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cazador1022 Report post Posted January 20, 2011 My jaw has hit the floor Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newfiebackflip Report post Posted January 21, 2011 I second that!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Parceiro Report post Posted January 20, 2012 As a portuguese man and leatherworker, I double love this! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
