Members SteveBrambley Posted January 17, 2009 Members Report Posted January 17, 2009 An absolutely breath taking piece of work! Truly remarkable! Steve Quote
RustyMelton Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 Wow John, very nice work. That tri-weave turned out great! I'm bettin smorg is happy camper. Quote
Members CitizenKate Posted January 17, 2009 Members Report Posted January 17, 2009 Exceptional work, John. Thanks for posting it! Kate Quote
JohnBarton Posted January 18, 2009 Author Report Posted January 18, 2009 Thank you everyone. Some of you have read my bio on here and some haven't. I just want to let everyone know that I don't do the tooling. In my shop I have Zhen Hai Lee doing the tooling, who is one of China's best and getting better daily. However he didn't do this tooling, it was done by a company called Red Sheep that is putting out some amazing stuff of their own. I gave them the design I wanted and we worked together for a few weeks to get it right and they did the tooling on the cut leather that we sent to them. I am the designer and everything that comes out of our shop pretty much starts in my head. The finished cases are a collaboration of everyone's ideas and work though. We have some really over the top stuff coming out in the next month. Two cases that are continuations of previous themes with some technical innovations built in that will be cool. After 18 years making cue cases I am finally in the position I wanted to be in which is to be the creative head of a shop with almost no technical limitations. At the beginning I did make the cases all by myself, sewing and all. But I quickly realized that this wasn't where my talent lay and that I could do more if I hired people who were good at the technical aspects and I did the design. I have so so so much admiration for those of you who do every aspect on your work. As I said, in the beginning I did all the work as well and nothing beats the joy and pride when you hand your work to the receipient and they are over the moon happy and you did everything on it. I won't have that feeling again for a long time unless I "get in the grease" so to speak and make cases by myself again. For me though the feeling of getting out what's in my head through directing our team is nearly as satsifying. So thank you all for the wonderful compliments. I think you on behalf of my staff who all work very hard to meet mine and your standards and who take great pride in the cases we are putting out. A quick story to illustrate this: The other day my wife's mother was on the bus with the purse I showed you here. She works with us and designed that purse. She was complimented on it several times and asked where to get it and with pride she answered that it's a one of kind and can't be bought anywhere. (and she didn't offer to make them one either - we need to work on the customer acquistion part of the business). So again thank you for the compliments and also thank you all for sharing your knowledge. Quote Support Quality. We are all humans. Buy the best no matter where it's made. That way everyone lives in harmony. Nature knows no flags.
Members Butch Posted January 18, 2009 Members Report Posted January 18, 2009 What more can I say! Awesome Quote Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction. Facebook
Ambassador leatheroo Posted January 18, 2009 Ambassador Report Posted January 18, 2009 congrats to you and your team.....i really loved your story and your work and i agree with ABN, we need a masterpiece section!!!! Quote "]http://leatheroo.blogspot
MADMAX22 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Posted January 19, 2009 Congrats too a great finished product. You should buy a couple of beers for whoever got that triweave stamping done, that is a really good job. Quote
Members wildrose Posted January 19, 2009 Members Report Posted January 19, 2009 That basketweave is what I affectionately call the "basketweave from Hell" !! And man did your team do an awesome work on that and the piece as a whole. That is simply gorgeous. Quote Holly Moore Wild Rose Creations http://www.wrcleather.com
TomSwede Posted January 19, 2009 Report Posted January 19, 2009 congrats to you and your team.....i really loved your story and your work and i agree with ABN, we need a masterpiece section!!!! I like that idea too and want to raise the question how would a piece qualify to make it into such a section? Voting, xx number of individual comments (who wants to count them;-), a jury etc? I'd definetly put my vote on this one!! Interesting words from you John and it'll be interesting to see what you will come up with! Keep it up!! Tom Quote Confucius - Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. --------------------------------------------- www.1eye1.se blogg.1eye1.se
Members TheTrooper Posted January 19, 2009 Members Report Posted January 19, 2009 Hi John, this case is insane. I always love to see new work coming from your shop. Can´t wait to see your next masterpieces. Cheers, Marcel Quote FKA adamant-leather Feel free to visit my site adamant-leather.de
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