Saddle hand tooled 2 x 4 instroke case
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another bump, its got to go!
Case
I have never seen an insrtoke case quite like this. Very nice sir.
I have never seen an insrtoke case quite like this. Very nice sir.
Surprised this case is still here.
hi all,
here goes the pictures of the case. I was looking for a case and asked the seller for the pictures.
The case is not my style, and i am posting the pictures as per his request.
Good luck with sales greg.
Cuong.
guys this case is also under warranty in my name, so the case comes with the serial #,1 800 # for any repair work on a paper warrnaty sheet!!
hi all,
here goes the pictures of the case. I was looking for a case and asked the seller for the pictures.
The case is not my style, and i am posting the pictures as per his request.
Good luck with sales greg.
Cuong.
bump for a great case!!!
please someone take the case home!
Hand Tooled?
I believe your case is not hand tooled. It is embossed! Big difference. If Instroke made hand tooled cases they would be very proud of them and of course would say they were. Still a good case! Hand tooled cue cases usually go from $600-$800 and up!
I believe your case is not hand tooled. It is embossed! Big difference. If Instroke made hand tooled cases they would be very proud of them and of course would say they were. Still a good case! Hand tooled cue cases usually go from $600-$800 and up!
And you would be wrong. Instroke makes very fine "hand tooled" cases, as they are part of the saddle series cases and advertised as such as well. Retail on this case is over $469. Any more questions ??
This is case is hand tooled. Each impression was stamped by hand using a handheld tool and a mallet. The impressions were each filled with resist by hand to keep the natural color. This is a very labor intensive process that must be done carefully.
Hand tooled cases don't start at $600 and up. They start at about $300.
Just so that the terms are not confused. Tooling is the word we use to describe any working of the leather. It encompasses stamping, embossing, carving, and pyrography (burning). Most generally tooling is used to mean hand-tooling using carving and stamping.
Carving is the tooling process of making a cut in the leather in order to better shape it.
Stamping is when the leather is impressed using a pre-made design.
Embossing is actually the most confusing, it is when the leather is stamped using a large plate, when the leather is seared using a heated stamp or when the leather is raised from the backside and filled to retain a form.
Pyrograpghy is when the leather is seared using a wood burning instrument.
Instroke tooled cases are generally stamped and carved by hand. When John owned Instroke he introduced the Saddle series by going to a leather worker in the Czech Republic who specialized in belts and bags and and had that man and his apprentices create 50 designs to start with and of those 10 were selected for production. Each case that followed was 100% hand tooled. We believe that all current Instroke cases with tooling are also hand tooled based on the visual inspection of the work.
Tooled.
I stand corrected! Somewhat. First to Radar, not meaning to squash your sale or have any influence negatively. To Jb, isn't most embossing done by a machine much like a printing press? I will agree that stamping can be called hand tooled because it is done by hand with tool and mallet. Personally I don't think stamping requires great skills. Certainly nothing like carving with a knife. I speak of the flower type carving covering almost the entire case. Many many hours of skilled labor to produce, don't you agree? By the way, you make some beautiful cases JB. My Instroke had the burning thing done by a young man with Castillo Leather. Free Hand!! No tracing. Very cool. Don't think it can be done on slick type leather. Thanks for the input.
I stand corrected! Somewhat. First to Radar, not meaning to squash your sale or have any influence negatively. To Jb, isn't most embossing done by a machine much like a printing press? I will agree that stamping can be called hand tooled because it is done by hand with tool and mallet. Personally I don't think stamping requires great skills. Certainly nothing like carving with a knife. I speak of the flower type carving covering almost the entire case. Many many hours of skilled labor to produce, don't you agree? By the way, you make some beautiful cases JB. My Instroke had the burning thing done by a young man with Castillo Leather. Free Hand!! No tracing. Very cool. Don't think it can be done on slick type leather. Thanks for the input.
You would be surprised at the amount of skill it takes to stamp correctly. Not only does it take accuracy with the tool placement but it takes a practiced touch to hold the tool at the right angle and strike it with the right force. A cue case can have anywhere from hundreds to thousands of impressions. A quick glance at this case being sold shows more than 1000 individual impressions. Doing that over a large area and keeping them all straight without a mistake is very difficult.
Of course carving is more difficult work because that is essentially sculpting the leather. That is a practiced skill which requires years to master for most people who try it.
As was pointed out in the previous post embossing described three techniques, printing with a large plate as you mentioned, stamping with a heat press and puffing the leather out from the back and adding a filler. Of the three the last method is almost always done by hand. It would be better if there were another term for the third method but unfortunately there is not.
If you don't think stamping takes skill try this, take a rubber stamp and try to stamp a straight line of impressions. After you try it with no guideline take a ruler and make a straight line and try again by lining the stamp up to the line. Now imagine if you had to do this with a small tool and your big hand in the way knowing that once you strike the tool it's too late.
There are people who can freehand stamp with incredible precision and people who specialize in doing freehand free form stamping designs. Those are the exceptional artists. Most do it as you see in this case in symmetrical patterns requiring a lot of accuracy.
Regarding the pyrography there are the freehand artists and the ones who draw out the image first. Both techniques are good for producing stunning work. It can be as simple and quick as a flea market airbrush job or it can be as fine art as a Van Gogh. Either way it's a skill and a talent.
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Thanks again JB. Very informative. I can tell by your posts you are a gentleman. You could have easily told me to jump in a lake, but you took the high road! AZ has way more good guys than nits, thank goodness.
Thanks again JB. Very informative. I can tell by your posts you are a gentleman. You could have easily told me to jump in a lake, but you took the high road! AZ has way more good guys than nits, thank goodness.
I'll bump it...I have this EXACT case, it's my main case for over 9 years now, awesome case. Great protection, great look, very durable. Definitely a head turner, it stands out in every crowd! And I paid A LOT more than $310, too. :thumbup:
weekend bump for this great case!! why is this case still here? pm me to purchase!!HI all,
Here goes the pictures of the case. I was looking for a case and asked the seller for the pictures.
The case is not my style, and I am posting the pictures as per his request.
Good luck with sales Greg.
Cuong.