Tom's Tool Bag was not made to sit behind glass. It was built for the weight of real tools — snips, side cutters, screwdrivers, aircraft grade sheet metal cutters, impact driver, drill, and batteries. It went to work. It earned its patina. The leather is alive and it is becoming itself.
The body is full grain natural vegetable tanned leather, part dyed in British Tan. The bottom is thick rough out veg tan, waxed on the flesh side — built to take abuse and ask for more. Solid brass hardware throughout. A hand painted cathedral graces one side. The Persecuted Truth Lighthouse patch, fully hand painted, marks the other.
81 hours and 18 minutes of documented craftsmanship. Every cut, every stitch, every hour recorded. This is not a production bag. There is no second one. The cathedral on this bag will never be painted exactly the same way again.
Embedded with an NTAG 424 DNA NFC chip — permanently locked. Tap it with any phone and the full provenance record opens. Minted as a 1-of-1 NFT on Ethereum via Manifold. The physical object and the digital record are permanently bound.
