Your questions about the Cable Organizer Set
Four cable holders, each cut from one piece of leather. Two small ones at 10 × 2 cm, one long one at 14 × 2 cm and a wide headphone holder at 9.5 × 4.5 cm, measured flat. One for every cable on the desk.
Yes. The long holder is meant for the thick extension cable, the small ones for the thin charger and for USB-C cables on an iPhone or iPad. It only gets tight with cables noticeably heavier than a MacBook power cord.
That is what the wide holder is for. Headphone cables are thin and tangle fastest, so they get more surface to wrap around rather than more pressure.
Not easily. The cable is threaded through two slits in the leather band, so the holder stays on the cable even when it is open. That is the difference to a velcro strap, which stays behind in the backpack.
Yes. We use YKK press studs made in Wuppertal – you know the name from zips, and it is here for the same reason. Every stud is set by hand on our press in Hamburg. A cable holder that pops open after three weeks is not a cable holder.
Light brown is lighter than it looks in the photo and darkens visibly over time. Dark brown changes less. Both are the same vegetable-tanned leather from Tuscany, only dyed differently.
Velcro collects dust and lint, goes stiff and looks used after a year. Vegetable-tanned leather gets darker and softer in the same time. Both are wear, one of them just looks better for it.
The press stud
Every cable tie carries a press stud from YKK, made in Wuppertal. You know the name from zips, and it is here for the same reason: it closes a thousand times and sits as firmly on the thousandth as on the first. A cable holder that pops open after three weeks is not a cable holder. That makes the stud the most expensive single part of a band made of leather and metal – and the one we do not save on.
Hot foil stamping
Our logo is not printed on. It is pressed in, with a heated die of the kind bookbinders have used for centuries. The die gets hot, meets the leather under pressure for a moment and leaves a recess that belongs to the material. No layer of colour sitting on top. Nothing that flakes off after a year in a trouser pocket.
The method has one drawback and we live with it: there is no second attempt. Every part goes under the die on its own and is lined up by hand. If it sits crooked, it is scrap. This is the slow way to put a logo on leather. In return it is still there once the leather has long gone dark.
And because the die can be swapped, your name goes on the same way: up to ten characters, blind or in silver or gold, in the same step as our logo. The silver logo on the gift box is made exactly like this. Heat, pressure, no sticker.
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