Nice. I'm sure he'll love it. Like the way you did the text. I like v1 because it's darker. But I like v2 because of the lighting. Very nice pen-tooling.
you should have posted it in the gifts section, anyhow the lighting is really nice and truly brings attention to the focal.
I really like that, the way you did the text is clever, but i dont really like the style you used for the text.