Members Frayed01 Posted February 29, 2008 Members Report Posted February 29, 2008 Hi,my name is Dave,I live in the UK,coming back to leather carving after a 10 year lay off. Started leatherwork in 1977,whilst in the Armed Forces,availed myself of the US army facilities whilst in Berlin,kept it up after I left,but due to a 2 hour commute to London and back,every day I let it all lapse. No longer have to commute,and so I'm back. Have just acquired an Adler 30 longarm patcher,free and in working condition,from a friend of my brother who lives in Germany. I am also replacing all my beloved Tandy stamps,which had rusted over the years,win some lose some,and ebay is proving very fruitful at the moment. The only problem we have in the UK,is a lack of places to buy decent veg.tan/tooling leather,but I'm working on that. Nice to find a site that caters for all sorts of leatherwork Dave Quote Videre Nec Videri
Ambassador Don101 Posted February 29, 2008 Ambassador Report Posted February 29, 2008 Hi Dave welcome to the forum from one ex services to another forth tanks which was disbanded in 92 so i stayed in germany, Don Quote
ferret Posted February 29, 2008 Report Posted February 29, 2008 Hi Dave, try http://www.leprevo.co.uk/ or http://www.bowstock.co.uk/index.html. Nice to see another Brit here Quote Politicians are like nappies, both should be changed regularly for the same reason.
Members tonyc1 Posted February 29, 2008 Members Report Posted February 29, 2008 Hi,my name is Dave,I live in the UK,coming back to leather carving after a 10 year lay off. Started leatherwork in 1977,whilst in the Armed Forces,availed myself of the US army facilities whilst in Berlin,kept it up after I left,but due to a 2 hour commute to London and back,every day I let it all lapse. No longer have to commute,and so I'm back.Have just acquired an Adler 30 longarm patcher,free and in working condition,from a friend of my brother who lives in Germany. I am also replacing all my beloved Tandy stamps,which had rusted over the years,win some lose some,and ebay is proving very fruitful at the moment. The only problem we have in the UK,is a lack of places to buy decent veg.tan/tooling leather,but I'm working on that. Nice to find a site that caters for all sorts of leatherwork Dave You may not have decent tooling leather but you have plenty of great bridle and harness leather though! Tony. Quote
Members indypbear Posted March 1, 2008 Members Report Posted March 1, 2008 Dave, Where are you located in UK? I have very good friends in Warwickshire. David is retired Chief of Criminal Investigations for Warwickshire County PD. This is a contact for leather, tools, dyes, finishes, etc. in North Hampton www.theidentitystore.co.uk/. It is headquartered in Derbyshire and owned by Peter and Jackie Laight (good people). Tell Jackie that John and Cathey from Texas refered you. She'll take good care of your leather supply needs. Hope this helps. we can be reached at <front_line42@yahoo.com>. Indy aka John Quote
Members OutBackP Posted March 1, 2008 Members Report Posted March 1, 2008 Hi dave I'm in the uk at the moment and I've found the best prices are from http://www.leprevo.co.uk and from https://www.abbeysaddlery.co.uk/ You need to create an account with abbey, but they are good prices and good to deal with. They're the best prices I've found over here. I last got my leather from http://www.jfjbaker.co.uk/index.php. Lovely leather and from the oldest surviving tannery in the world. Hope this helps Quote
Members Frayed01 Posted March 1, 2008 Author Members Report Posted March 1, 2008 Hi dave I'm in the uk at the moment and I've found the best prices are from http://www.leprevo.co.uk and from https://www.abbeysaddlery.co.uk/ You need to create an account with abbey, but they are good prices and good to deal with. They're the best prices I've found over here. I last got my leather from http://www.jfjbaker.co.uk/index.php. Lovely leather and from the oldest surviving tannery in the world. Hope this helps OutbackP,believe it or not my Great,Great,Great,Grandfather was born in Colyton,and worked in this tannery as a boy. Quote Videre Nec Videri
Pip Posted March 1, 2008 Report Posted March 1, 2008 Welcome Dave, Glad to see more uk'ers joining all the time!! Quote
Members OutBackP Posted March 1, 2008 Members Report Posted March 1, 2008 OutbackP,believe it or not my Great,Great,Great,Grandfather was born in Colyton,and worked in this tannery as a boy. Thats pretty impresive, not everyone can say that they're triple great grandfather worked in the oldest surviving oak tannery. Are you still in the area? I'm from Bridport in Dorset. Quote
Members RockyWolf Posted March 1, 2008 Members Report Posted March 1, 2008 Hi Dave, welcome along give this a go regarding Leather http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/leathersolutions are quite handy in the UK and a good service from a working tannery.. http://www.leprevo.co.uk/ I have been trading with for about 20 years always good service from Newcastle with them and worth a visit if you ever get the time... all the other links are in this tread and cant think of any more that come to mind.. All the Best.... Dave Wolf Quote
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