Review- Artificer 12MK2: Love at First Bite

**Eleazar** · 30th September 10, 08:09 PM

Beautiful!

A true work of art.

**budd4766** · 1st October 10, 04:22 AM

As a leather guy myself, I'm kinda jealous. The hand stitching and edge burnishing is really top-notch. I'm impressed! Great job!

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 1st October 10, 05:06 AM

Looks great. Ryan, I know you've been waiting a while for this. Simple but elegant!

**English Bloke** · 1st October 10, 05:41 AM

Superb craftsmanship and a wonderful simplicity of style. Right up my street. Thanks for the write up Ryan. Nice one Scott.

**artificer** · 1st October 10, 07:41 AM

Ryan,
thank you for the fantastic review, complete with epic storyline, gypsy curses and fabulous pix!
You were an absolute blast to work with on this (and on my splendid new bonnet

)

I'm thrilled that the sporran 'fits the bill'. I'm also greatly relieved that Lugosi arrived intact after his bunking off to Puerto Rico for a weekend vacation (lazy bugger

)

Thanks all, as well for the very kind commentary.

**Ryan Ross** · 1st October 10, 03:22 PM

Thank you for the awesome sporran, Scott!

...and sorry about that gypsy curse thing. I mean, how was I to know, right?

Word of warning, people- That whole "what's in a name?" business is bunk. Name your sporrans with care!

**Ryan Ross** · 7th October 10, 12:40 PM

..well, I took Lugosi for his first field test today. I only managed this hastily taken picture, but just to prove that it happened, here you go.

More importantly, the sporran works just as great as it looks. The Sam Browne stud was something I wasn't used to, but after a couple of times opening and closing it, I'm now a big fan of this closure system; nothing to go wrong, simple, functional, and it looks good. Also, the leather is already starting to loosen up and break in.