pella Report post Posted June 30, 2008 Hello! i need to order a side today and dont know what to do, i need your advice... What is best between Tandy "oak leaf" heavy skirting (last day sale...) and Thoroughbred leather heavy skirting from mexico also... For repairs! thanks a lot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pella Report post Posted June 30, 2008 hein?! I came back from thoroughbred leather website and they are in USa...look like the seller made a mistake or there is 2 tannery with the same name? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pella Report post Posted June 30, 2008 (edited) ok that seem to be a one person thread lol!But here, i found that here the link http://www.leathermag.com/news/fullstory.p...uy_tannery.html and here the text: Tasman buy tanneryUnited StatesPublished: 04 June, 2008In January, Tasman industries completed the purchase of a 100,000 sq ft tannery in Hartford, Wisconsin.According to company president Norman Tasman, the company have immediate plans to double the size of the plant.Their most recent acquisition is crucial to the management's vision of making Tasman Industries a beginning-to-end processor and producer of leather products. The Wisconsin tannery produces various types of leather from deerskin, sheep and goats, as well as bison leather for L L Bean Inc. Including their hide-brokerage business, Tasman Industries now handle around 120,000 hides each week, nearly 20% of weekly domestic cattle slaughter. Those numbers increased over a six-decade period and have accelerated since 1989 when the company began acquiring other hide processors in Texas and across the Midwest. Between 1989 and November 2006, Tasman purchased or partnered with US plants in Omaha, Fort Worth, Amarillo, Des Moines and Boise. The company also recently purchased a facility in Portland, Oregon, providing their operations with a trans-shipping and collection point for their hides. About 90% of Tasman Industries hides are exported to destinations such as China, South America and Western Europe. Tasman Industries also have a joint venture with a tannery in Orizaba, Mexico, under which heavyweight hide material shipped from Tasman is converted into leather. The leather is then shipped back to Louisville and sold through a Tasman-owned distributor, Thoroughbred Leather. The leathers are then used to produce a variety of products, including gun holsters, utility belts and weight-lifting belts.Tasman, who employ around 225 people, hope to locate a leather manufacturing facility in Louisville within the next five years. If i understand well, my seller guy was rigth, Heavy skirting from Thoroubred leather is tanned in Mexico, but from US hide? Should be better than Tandy oak leaf? I am confused Edited June 30, 2008 by pella Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sheathmaker Report post Posted July 4, 2008 (edited) Pella, this is my opinion and my opinion alone...not speaking for others. I believe there is no such thing as "cheap" skirting for building new or repair or anything else. The cheaper the price, the greater the probability of shoddy work due to inferior materials, premature failure due to inferior materials, dis satisfied customers due to inferior materials, and so on. When you consider all the probabilites and damage to your repuatation it all of a sudden makes the most expensive and best quality leather you can find the "cheapest" because you no longer have to build or repair the same thing twice or three times due to inferior quailty CHEAP leather. Paul Edited July 4, 2008 by sheathmaker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blake Report post Posted July 6, 2008 Well Said Paul, I agree 100% Thouroughbred Leather although tanned in Mexico is tanned to a high standard and is consistant in quality even more so than a couple of American tanners that tend to go up and down. It is not my number one choice but I sure don't have a problem with it. The EPA has run a lot of tanneries out of business and out of the country but good management along with a good tanners knowledge base has boosted the quality of import leathers tremendously. Research each tannery before putting an inferior label on them . There certainly are some extremely poor tanneries out there but once you learn how to judge a good hide you will learn to avoid them along with their distributers. Blake Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pella Report post Posted July 6, 2008 well, i just ask wich one is best, i dont want to know how i should use leather. I never try any of these before, thats why i was looking for feedback. I do have a good feeling of what is good leather, when i can have it in my hands. I order by mail so i cannot see quality before i buy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
