小竹長兵衛 Eyeglass

小竹長兵衛家族是地方望族，至今200年以上的歷史，專門生產賽璐珞膠框眼鏡。小竹長兵衛製作賽璐珞鏡框已有48年經歷，昭和37年(1962年)在自家開了工作坊。

小竹先生繼承了所謂【一之蕊】的傳統製法以及稱作【七枚蝶番】的樞紐嵌合技術，可說是賽璐珞專家中的長老級人物，而賽璐珞則是採用靜置三年以上的高品質賽璐珞，所以將不會有變型歪斜的情況發生，藉著一次又一次的手工磨製後，會出現獨特的光澤。

由工匠之技巧誕生出的鏡框不但纖細，而且十分優美，那弧形所交織出來的柔軟度，擁有不論男女都會被吸引的魅力，且因為每個月只生產180付，所以可說是十分稀少的產品。今年更因健康因素使得產量銳減，收藏價值更為水漲船高。

Hand made leather: Celtic Empire handcrafted in Canada : Russian leather

I have always love my Davidoff Mesenger bag that is big enough to put in a laptop and Ipad for my everyday use. The simple and elegant design has made it both casual looking and yet can be used during formal occasion.

Ever since I came across the 200+ years old Russian leather from Rudy, I have always wanted to have a bag made by these rare leathers. However, owing to the scarcity of the leather plus I hope to continue to use my existing Davidoff messenger bag, I have approached Rudy to help me personalized my Davidoff bag with these rare leathers that were buried under the sea for more then 200 years. By doing so, I can have the best of both world  : )

For a start, Rudy has to skillfully removed some part of the original leather by hand. Having been in the business for a long time, Rudy is fully capable of making these.

Following which, Rudy will need to optimize the rare leathers to see how it could be incorporated in the overall, bag while maintaining its original design but with the personalization. Much of the responalization will require detail planning in advance and Rudy has already visualized how the bag would look before the execution.

After all the removal and measurement, he will need to stich the 200 yeas old Russian leather and combined the old leather into the new. 

With all the reconstruction, the newly born custom made Davidoff bag is ready for use. Everyone that has seen my bag has said that the personalization looks great and the design is really unique.

Look at the detail hand stitch work ...so perfect..

The final product... A product that is timeless in design and top quality in execution..

For those who is keen, please see and contact Rudy:

https://www.celticempire.com/category.php?cName=200_Year_old_leather&categoryId=2000077

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