Since you originally posted this case last July.....
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=369220
I am guessing this was intended to be some kind of poke at me for the case I just posted and sold with a red ostrich print leather. Jack, Im not John Barton. I wont engage in an ongoing internet drama with you. :sorry:
However I will offer some information about ostrich leather vs a print on cow or pig. Since ostriches are farmed for their meat etc, the skins are a byproduct of the process (just like cow hides come from the beef industry), and even though they are still considered "exotic" compared to cow hide, they are on on the same plane. The quality is dictated by how good the hide is and how it was tanned. What a print gets you is the ability to have the same look, for about a 1/4 of the price in the case of ostrich. And even if an "exotic" leather were somehow "better" than a print (which they are not, they are just more expensive)..... do you somehow think I cant order exotic leather or make a case with "real" exotic leather? Youre a funny man Jack.
Oh and BTW you also list that you do embossed prints on your website for an additional $150. Its under the materials section.
http://www.justiscases.net/buildcase.html
As someone who has been building cases for only a year and a half to two years compared to your 25+ years, you could have stuck out your hand and been nice (especially considering I am a former two time customer of yours), instead you post this as a knock. Yep, youre a class act Jack.
Thanks
Chuck