Hi Aram,
Thank you for your review. Very sorry that you’ve had this experience. But I’d still like you to give it a shot, and offer you a 100-day full satisfaction guarantee here. Of course, if you’d prefer to return it right away for a full refund, that’s also possible. Just get in touch via email and I’ll send you the return label!
Let me explain:
The leather here is wild whitetail deer leather, gathered from Finnish hunting clubs between 2020–2022. We used this leather on around 300 of our Fold Top backpacks, and our customers still love theirs. Saw you are one of the lucky few who has one of these packs. Anyway the tannery that made this leather ceased operations, and because it is a “wild” leather, it was challenging from a production point of view. The organic differences in the hides made it hard to get an efficient yield of the large pieces we needed.
Since then, we’ve been looking for a way to make gloves out of the remaining whitetail deer leather we have. With the smaller pieces, we can get good cuts, but it still involves a lot of manual picking and matching. As far as we know, these are the only gloves in the world made out of this leather. So far, fewer than 100 pairs have been made, and we probably have enough leather for fewer than 300 pairs in total. After that, that’ll most likely be it, as we’re not aware of any tannery currently producing this leather to our specifications.
The leather’s natural properties mean the surface is a little more sensitive to scuffs, and it can have some marks or cracks already straight out of the tannery. Over time, the palm side of the glove will wear into a suede-like surface. That’s not a flaw, but a property—and it even improves grip as time goes on.
The leather itself is tenacious, but because it needs to be split and processed before manufacturing, it can feel a little stiff—not soft, and perhaps a little dry—right out of the box. We agree after the processing, which is kind of like ironing, it feels stiffer and drier than the leather we sent to the manufacturing in Hungary, or the backpacks we used to send out.
However, as with all Kasperis, it has a break-in time, and we’d really like you to give it a try. We’ve used these gloves a lot, and they do become soft—almost like a second skin—with time. They’ll also be naturally moisturised by your hands, or you can treat them with a beeswax-based product if you prefer.
If in 100 days’ time you still don’t like them, we’ll take them back for a full refund—no matter how much you’ve used them.
Kind regards,
Michael
