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    On 10/29/2022 at 12:35 PM, Gulrok said:

    https://imgur.com/gallery/3I9wr06

    Here's photos of everything.

    Tons of equipment.

    There's 3 landis model k stitchers. All turn on and work. Need new cords but they worked.

    Lots of other equipment too. Photos in the gallery. 

    Asking $7500. 

    You can email me at trevor@amopelleco.com or called me (856) 394 0861.

    Thanks


    ** Located in Maple Shade, NJ 08052 at a storage facility. You'd be responsible for moving. **

    In the interest of moving & selling this equipment due to a split with my significant other. I am reducing it to $2000. 

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    Hi folks,

    Pretty soon I'll be listing more business assets, but I'd like to offer for sale one of the brands I own. It is a relatively new brand, little to no marketing has been done and is becoming well known in the Fire & EMS business. The brand get a lot of attention from google as there are few competitors in this space.

    I'm looking to sell www.frontlineleatherco.com

    Now, this is only one of my brands, it is a smaller portion of my business, and the only one that my wife is in half with me. Fortunately the other brand is protected & it requires minimal tools.

    Anywho here is the brand.

    www.frontlineleatherco.com

    We started in Dec of 2020.
    In 2021 we did $5,467.45 of sales.
    In 2022 we did $12,181.45 of sales.

    The business sells 2 products, leather belts and radio straps for firefighters & EMTs.

    The sale would include the brand website, the dies & patterns for the radio straps + baskets, letter sets & symbols to be embossed. It would come with a how to guide to make the radio straps. 

    I'm asking $5,000. 

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    On 2/7/2023 at 4:32 PM, Bert03241 said:

    yes but did all the work for promised bigger things to come that were never gonna happen LOL lesson learned

     

    Bert,

    Make a habit to charge a fee that makes sense to you separate from the laser time.

    For example, I usually charge $75-$150 setup fee that I amatorize over the period of 5-10 repeat small orders, or take the price off in the event of 1 or 2 big orders. 

    But I never do a discounted setup fee, no matter how much the promise of business is. You're just asking to be disappointed.  

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    3 minutes ago, Bert03241 said:

    yea and I digitized all your patterns  and then you bailed on me

    Life lesson, charge an up front fee for stuff like that. 

    As you're aware Bert, you have to do test card to get good laser settings. He sent me tiny little scrap pieces that I wasn't able to use. Never responded for months after a contract was signed and then hit me up again. Thats when I turned down the job entirely. Fortunately, as we never got to the actual testing phase for settings - I never digitized anything. 

  13. Posted · Edited by Gulrok · Report reply

    https://imgur.com/gallery/3I9wr06

    Here's photos of everything.

    Tons of equipment.

    There's 3 landis model k stitchers. All turn on and work. Need new cords but they worked.

    Lots of other equipment too. Photos in the gallery. 

    Asking $7500. 

    You can email me at trevor@amopelleco.com or called me (856) 394 0861.

    Thanks


    ** Located in Maple Shade, NJ 08052 at a storage facility. You'd be responsible for moving. **

  14. Posted · Edited by Gulrok · Report reply

    On 10/6/2022 at 9:40 AM, JayEhl said:

    Fortunately, my kids have grown so its just the two of us but yea, its not cheaper and I get insulted by the grocers shrinkflation methods.  Funny how they blamed increased fuel prices for increased food prices but when oil came down the food prices sure didn't.   And now since the oil empires are cutting production to prop up their failing country you can sure expect our own grocers to follow suit.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/08/oil-companies-profits-inflation/

    Rising energy costs is due to oligopolies having the control. Basically they have the entire US by their balls and you're stuck with that choice. Doesn't matter what side you're on politically - you're affected when there is no alternative to the market. With our current energy suppliers, that's it. You either buy their gas or you start walking. 

    This is why the push away from non-renewables is sooo attractive to people. Ppeople are moving to electric for so much such as cars, heat pumps, stoves, etc . Its possible and much easier to begin producing electric (solar farms, wind, etc) as a smaller company rather than compete with the large ones for non-renewables. 

     

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    5 hours ago, AvalonAcres said:

    Hi! New here. Found this place while doing some research and decided to join!

    Anywho... Does anyone have any experience in lasering Hair-On-Hide? Ive seen some really cool stuff online, but cant seem to find any settings. I personally have a 60w Co2 chinese laser. 

    No experience, but I can imagine the smell. ( I do primarily laser cut work at the moment ). 150 w laser here. 

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    On 9/26/2022 at 11:54 AM, Silverd said:

     Contact info please.  Phone is best to get started.  Or call me @ 805 701 3990.

    California 

    Thank you!

    Don

     

    Let's advance the project.

     

    Please call me 

    805 701 3990

    Thank you 

    Don

    Don I have called you a few times and left a few voicemails.

    I have also given you my number. 

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    16 hours ago, Silverd said:

    Good point...I understand. 

    I was hoping the laser operator can digitize the image then edge smooth . Then create the program the path...but probably not everyone has that capability.  I'm not that concerned if my patterns and the resulting program is 100% accurate...at least for now. 

    Thank you

    Silverd


    Hey - I didn't drop off the grid. I just didn't have notifications on for this post.

     

    On 9/11/2022 at 11:10 AM, Northmount said:

    @Gulrok You may have missed the above posts.

     

    Thank you!

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    On 8/15/2022 at 12:29 PM, Viles said:

    Also, you might think about using the name Union unless you will be ok with employees unionizing as the business grows. 

    Haha no issues with unionizing. I'm assuming if my employees think they need to unionize that I'm doing something wrong and need to fix some of the things we're doing. If they choose to unionize then we've done well. 

    ( I'm pro union having been in one myself. We'll see if we ever come to that bridge. ) 

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    On 8/15/2022 at 7:12 PM, Mulesaw said:

    The awl and needle combo looks good, but I think that the needle should be substituted with a bigger tool such as a half moon knife or a French skiver. there kind of lacks some "mass" of tools in the logo. 

    I also think that it is a bit like naming your dog or children. Every name sounds a bit wrong until you have used them 5 times, from that point on it is clear that it was correct.
    So maybe we in here are helping you overcomplicate the whole thing. :-)

    I am pretty sure that whatever the name or logo, it'll be a great place to shop for leather products. 

    Maybe it is a stupid question, but is there any reason why you want to make a new company instead of doing the Union Leather Supply under the Amopelle brand? 
    That brand has a nice looking logo, a good name which includes the name leather. Nothing suggests that it is only finished leather products that you are selling, Tandy is also called Tandy Leahter, but everyone knows that they won't sell you a leather jacket, but they will happily sell you a pattern, some leather and tools for making one.

    Brgds

    Jonas

     


    That's a solid idea. I'll discuss that with the girl and get back. Maybe keeping it under Amopelle is not a bad idea. 
     
    You're right.. the logo is nice and does work already.



     

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    5 minutes ago, dikman said:

    That's probably more readily identifiable, the hide image would only be obvious to someone who works with leather whereas the needle and awl is a bit more generic. And yes, I too like the Amopelle, particularly the left one, it's clean and easily read.

    My guess is that I'm overcomplicating things. The ULS with the needle and awl or leather should be just fine.

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    1 hour ago, Mulesaw said:

    Very easy to understand. Bold letters that will be easy to read even from ten feet away when the parcel delivery has to look into their truck to find the correct package.  (If you should use it on company tape to seal all your outgoing parcels).

    I am not sure about the hole in the neck of the hide though? 

    I can definitely take the hole out.

    Also could change to a needle/awl combo. 

    Free_Sample_By_Wix-2.jpeg

  24. Posted · Edited by Gulrok · Report reply

    So before the pandemic started we had a brand called "Amopelle Co" - its since been redone to "Amopelle Leather Co". In the middle of the pandemic we started our first responder brand doing equipment for them (including local contracts for repairs, union specific items, etc). Well, as the pandemic progressed our first responder brand (both me and the wife work in Fire/EMS field) took off and exceeded Amopelle. It does about 4-5x the work every month that Amopelle does. 

    So here are aesthetics from the two brands we have. Amopelle doesn't do nearly as much work as Frontline does. 

    I really like the aspects of the logo from Amopelle though. (I like both). I think that I could reach out to the designer and as for a similar style to be done for union leather supply. 

    ( The second row left column is the logo Amopelle uses ). 

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  25. Posted · Edited by Gulrok · Report reply

    1 hour ago, Tequila said:

    @Gulrok so when should we plan on seeing your new site up and running?  Are you planning on having an announcement?


    So at this point - I'm working on the website and trying to get it ready / modular enough to accept new products. 

    Things I've done so far

    1) I have a tool maker making me custom tools.
    2) I have one vendor for hand sewing threads.
    3) Website is coming along.

    --

    Things I have to continue 
    1) I want more thread vendors and options.
    2) I'm in contact with tanneries w/o contracts/agreements yet.
    3) I'm finishing branding - the artist we're working with is driving me a little bit crazy right now. I'm not super happy with the logo.

    I'm attaching the logo - thoughts? 

     

    UnionSupplyLeatherLogo.png

    EDIT: So the brand name is Union Leather Supply. 

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