Portugal - an heirloom is born

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This is the companion case to the Poor Knight. 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;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeCRrsGlo9w

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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.

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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. Happy Holidays to all of you and be safe.
 
Knockout work! I especially like that tooling pattern. Lots of cool bits of special interest scattered throughout this case.
 
John,

Wow! Another killer case! Can't wait to get my new one....and a BIG THANKS for Kathleen's video. Merry Xmas to you and your family!

Bob Bentele
 
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You better have the Portuguese shield on the back of that case, on my case as well.
Very, very good work. I love the detail on the Cross of Christ latch as well. Some sick stuff John :)
 
JB you are really doing some great work
I think i need a texas case
6 shooters,longhorns,state flag,lone star longneck bottle,etc
please get back to me when you have time
also did the 3 you are working on get mailed

your fan
dean
 
Thanks everyone! I should get some feedback fom the customer here in a day or so. He is probably still snowed in.

Dean, your three cases are finally DONE. We are slower than molasses. But the Cheese is about to be gotten!

Shipping happens today, pictures and tracking # to follow.

We will talk about your other case when we get caught up a little more.

Again thank you everyone for the nice compliments,
 
awesome case..great design...even better execution..this is a prime example of how well high end cases should be created...i especially love the case without the pocket and the huge crest.

do you have plans on making other cases with English or French royal family crests?

John PM me as I have a few ideas..I just didn't know your shop could put out such talent.
 
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