When buying leather hides several customers aren't aware that the raw material used to produce leather has a large impact on the price. Cattle farms are located all over the world and are used primarily slaughtered for beef but certain countries and continents have different methods of raising cattle. The two most popular leather supplying continents are Europe and South America.
Cattle farming is a huge business in South America as the terrain and countries are great locations for raising co
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that brown is still the most commonly used color in upholstery leather, but since we are a leather supplier we have realized that several other colors of leather have grown in sales over the last year. We researched our color sales and found that red and burgundy colors have sold extremely well in the last year and have accounted for 12% of our sales. Gray accounted for 8% while another 5% of sales were in blue, and various neutral shades making up
Spent a little bit of time on saturday working on this - Re-made the cheyenne roll. First attempt went kinda bad so I decided to start over - Second attempt went smooth!
Not sure if you have see Dale Harwoods DVD's but he has some pretty good little tricks - One of them is to cut the bottom edge of the cantle back a little flat - That way you have to stretch the leather down and in - It puts a lot of tension on the top edge of the cantle filler so that when you go to fold the leather back to m
Several car owners and collectors are always faced with having to restore their car interior. Most consumers do not know that all leather is not the same and that certain leathers are better for automotive use. The three most popular types of leather are: protected/pigmented, aniline, and semi-aniline. Each of these are all genuine but have their own suitable application. Aniline and semi-aniline products are typically used for residential furniture. Aniline leathers are the softest and most nat
Hey Folks,
I have this Great functioning Cobra Class 4 Leather Sewing Machine for sale. It was purchased brand new from the Leather Machine Co. back in '11. It has a 16" cylinder arm, variable speed servo motor, and several pressor foot attachments. Asking to get $2400 OBO. If you know anyone who may be interested, contact me or my wife at 602-826-5330, 623-826-9992 or via our email addresses at rhino.reed@gmail.com or gdfrippery@gmail.com
I really haven't had much time to work on this saddle as I have been very busy with work and a house I am renovating - However, on Saturday between building a staircase and loading a bunch of square bales I was able to get this final ground seat piece in - Overall shape is comfortable - I wish it was a little flatter in profile up front...Less rise I guess is what I mean.
Ground seat shape is so subjective. I am very slim. My pin bones are right there. To me a ground seat with a little dome t
Hi, can anyone here help advise me in regards to which is a good quality servo motor. Sewpro, Enduro, Sewquiet, etc. I plan to use it on a singer 51W55. I would like to be able to sew 1/4'' thick leather slowly. Thanks a lot
So on Saturday I got the ground seat for this rig started - I use an all leather ground seat based off of the tutorial provided by Steve Brewer in the saddle construction forum on this website.. I like the all leather for the simple reason that it gives me a lot of flexibility - Especially for an amateur maker - If you don't like how things are feeling you can skive away more leather.
On this one I still need to install the final cover piece, however want to make sure I am good and happy with
Here's my new saddle shop - It's really compact - 8'x10' - However that's all the room I had and it is definitely functional so far.
And here is my first saddle which has a few months of riding on it now...There are things I am doing differently on these next saddles based on having used this one.
Some differences will be: Narrower cantles - 12.5" instead of 13" wide. Less cantle dish - 1" instead of 1.5", stirrup leathers will be 2.5" instead of 3", trying to get a flatter
Source: Robert E Lee Wip
It's been a while since I've posted anything, so this might not get shown where I want it to. For someone who has only been working leather for only a few months, you are really good. Some people are not this good even at ten or more years. You have a talent for this work and all I can say is ....... don't stop now.
So in view of getting back into the groove of leather work (I spend all summer riding / doing outdoor stuff) I have decided to do some practice work first - Meaning building a pair of chinks for a friend. These will be square bottomed, 'buckaroo' style out of a glove tan leather in a tan color.
My biggest challenge with leather work is floral tooling. I'm reasonably artistic, however, I have never drawn a floral pattern I really liked. With that being in mind I purchased Cary Schwarz's flora
Hello There,
I am a very green saddle maker - Have built one saddle so far and am about to start saddles #2 and saddle #3.
This blog will allow you to follow my progress and also, will help some of you who are contemplating jumping into addle making understand what is involved.
Saddle #2 is going to be a wade. Tree is from Quality Mfg and showed up and fits the horses it will be used on - It is going to have a 15.5" finished seat, inlaid, padded seat and buckrolls. 7/8" flatplate rigging, 2
Hope this works.... looking for any info on this old HH Heiser saddle has a catalog # of 16652J but I cant find it the old catalogs I have... Only info I have is an old man dropped it off for sale at a shop in Chama NM i''ve spent hours searching the internet for info on it and found nothing... also have posted on several fb pages
This is my first time as a blogger and my first day as a member of this amazing and fascinating site. This is just to say a quick hello to everyone and here's to making new friends. I have been doing leatherwork for just over 20 years now and still learning as I go. Hope to be still learning for a long time to come.
Cheers everyone
Craftsman Made (aka Peter)
Hello all.
I am looking for some ideas that I hope you experienced fellows might be able to help me with. Firstly, where can you buy traceable patterns, that relate to motorcycles and a beginner tooler I have just purchased a new Indian motorcycle, so Indian head patterns would look nice tooled on my vintage leather seats and saddle bags. All information would be grately appreciated.
bcflyguy aka Neil
Please be patient I'm new at leather work and blogging. I'm having trouble with my dyed leather bleeding on clothes even after I put 2 coats of supersheen on it. I've also used fiebings resolene with the same result. This is with or without resist. I buff the leather before final finish and I let each coat dry for 24hrs. What am I doing wrong
hi, can someone kindly assist me ,by advising me on which is the best machine to sew leather that is one inch thick or more, be it motor or foot operated.thank you
I'm new at this blogging so I'm not sure if I'm even in the right place. Anyway I'm looking at two machines one is a Juki LU 562,
the other one is Nakajima 280L. Trying to find out if they are good machines and what they are worth.
I am new to leather working and have purchased a Tandy Pro 3800-00. Can anyone tell me where to find embossing rolls that will fit this machine? I have checked ebay, Tandy, and several other sites with no luck.
