Amazing Quality and Quick Shipping!
I don't leave a lot of reviews but I was looking forward to writing this one.<br /><br />In short -- this journal cover is the quality I dreamed of it being, in a best-case scenario.<br /><br />I use large Moleskine notebooks a lot for work, and occasionally for personal endeavors as well.  I came across this product as I was searching for leather-bound notebooks, as my coworker has one on his desk and I liked how sophisticated it looked.  So I stumble across this cover and price it out -- $80 for an extra large, monogrammed cover.  Ok, cool.  So I save it to my Wish List and do a little research -- I search for "Horween Dublin leather" and find this: "Essex is a vegetable tanned side leather that utilizes the same traditional tanning extracts as our Genuine Shell Cordovan.  Essex, and its waxed versions, Dublin and Derby, took us nearly three years to develop and perfect.  This tannage is marked by a high oil content and ages beautifully over time. The Essex family of leather is very versatile and can be used in a wide variety of products."<br /><br />The reviews look good, the pictures look good.  Anyway, I wait about a week and come back to this and decide to order it... man, this thing must have arrived within 48 hours, at the latest.  I'm not totally sure how it got here so fast, but the leather is perfect -- it is thick, quality leather, somehow adding a little stiffness as a cover yet very soft to the touch, with a touch of wax and very slight distress marks that show how real it is.  The color is beautiful -- I guess I would call it a dark tan.  The stitching and monogram came out perfectly; the monogram appears to be letterpressed into the leather on the bottom right corner.  It smells great, like a new expensive wallet and it actually brings me joy to pick up and use it.  I really don't have anything I would change about it, at all.  I probably would have paid 50% more for it if I would have known exactly what a quality product I was getting.<br /><br />If you're in the market for "something like this" for yourself or as a gift for someone else, you can stop looking now.  This is it.  And just to be clear, I have no affiliation with OleksynPrannyk or Horween or Amazon or this product line at all, I am just kind of in awe at how well it turned out.
Rating: 5 stars