rodney ranger

Must move due to wife's illness and must sell all of my leather tools, stamps, knives, Tippmann stitcher. Everything must go, preferably ONE lot. If interested contact me on this forum. I am near Kingman, Arizona. Will consider all reasonable offers—no lowballs, please. I will try to post some pix of tools but most are still packed from recent move to Arizona. Best to come take a look if you are in the area. Thanks in advance.....

I am new to the leatherworker.net forum, although I have been doing leatherwork for 40 years, off-and-on. I just retired from the U.S. Forest Service, so I am hoping to have more time to get back into working in leather. I was pretty active in the 70's/80's/90's and up to about 2004, when I had double-bypass surgery and then I slacked off and concentrated more on my career and getting to retire this year. I am a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild in Asheville, NC and hope to put items in the Guild Shop this year finally; making cases and specialty items and getting back to building and rebuilding saddles. I have a McClellan (about 1914) saddle and an 1880's California saddle tree to repair and recover in rawhide before I can rebuild the saddle from the ground-up. I am also planning on building a miniature saddle based on the California style that the first forest rangers in California used in the early 1900's and donate it to the National Headquarters in Washington, DC as part of a mini-display marking the 100th anniversary of the agency in 2005. That's about it and I am glad to have found this forum again. Feel free to take a look at my Web site at <www.rodkraftstudio.com>........RangerRodney