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[TwinOaks]

I've got a pair of live oaks in the yard. They're almost mirror images of each other, so......Twin Oaks.

[Suze]

thanks for the stories -- I seem to "know" you all a little better now

While I don't have a Leather Shop - when we did dollhouse minis we went by the name Tiny Accents - cause we did the small things "to make your house a home"

When I started selling "garage sale type stuff" in the SCA (my medieval group) I marked myself as Ashgrove's Dungeon Sale. (castles usually don't have garages, another friend uses AEdric's Attic - so we joke about haveing the whole castle covered from the attic to the dungeon - lame I know)

But when a friend and I do SCA events with our Good Stuff we use Gryphon's Faire - cause the Barony we belong to is called Flaming Gryphon and the first name that we thought of for our shire was supposed to be Sundridge Faire - the stupit heralds didn't like that one so we ended up with Norborough.

so if I was selling leather it would be under Gryphon's Faire (and it might come to that yet)

[ArtS]

On mine the Schwab LeatherCraft is obvious. My Logo is a combination of two things that I love and are important in my life. Most of all God and much lower on the list are horses. I drew this up years before I started leather work back when I started into horses. I dreamed of it being my ranch logo. I felt it said who I was.

Art

Edited April 8, 2009 by ArtS

[Timbo]

Well I wish I had an amusing story about my leather shops name "Drunk Horse Custom Leather"..........but I don't. There is a little town west of here and out in the mountains is a road called Drunk Horse Lane and I always thought it was a cool name, that's all.

So my lovely wife thought it would be a good name for my leather work. Somebody on the forum once asked me if it was a reference to the drunk horse on the move Cathouse and Ballou........nope......just a neat sounding name. After I picked it I also found there is a band named Drunk Horse......that has a cult like following from what I can see.

So that's it.........

Tim

[Luke Hatley]

Timbo...........is that where the song came from also?

'BEER FOR MY HORSES"

[Billy P]

My name came about, because when I worked const. I would, between jobs draw unemployment and work at making leather things. That was along with doing custom belts and pocketbooks and such. Somebody asked me why didn't I get a shop and do it full time. Never enough business to make a living around here where I live so I told them no that, it was a Sideline, hence Sideline Leather Co. it's been that since about 1981. I like it and see no reason to change it now. Billy P

[DeeAnna]

Our main business is Classic Bells. We restore antique sleigh bells, so the connection between the business and the name is probably pretty obvious.

When I'm not doing bell things, I do a variety of repair work, tack, harness, personal gear, etc. I call that offshoot of the business Williams Creek Outfitters.

We live in a real picturesque part of Iowa and the proverbial babbling creek that formed our rocky little valley is Williams Creek. The reason why I used Williams Creek in my business name is that the creek is a bit of a wander away from our house ... and W.C.O. is a bit of a wander away from Classic Bells. One of the attached pictures shows the creek valley from the vantage point of our front yard.

--DeeAnna

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

OK I will try to keep it short. A long time ago, I used to build race cars, engines,trans, chassis and stuff. I never got into doing the bodies so I contracted that out to a friend of mine who was really good at it. Well I finally got around to taking the time to build one for myself, but; when I went to Bill to do the body, he was loaded up with work, so he suggested that I bring the car over to his shop and do it my self with his tools and help. I watched him put the first coat of bondo on a quarter panel, it looked easy! Next it was my turn, 2 gallons of bondo later, most of which ended up on the floor, and I won't even tell you how much razzing, I finally got that quarter panel finished. Now then, Bill and I were old buddies and had been racing for many years (back in the 60s) and had a lot of friends at the track. We were known for having a really fun time and raising a lot of H___when we were there, (that was always Bills fault) anyway, when I pulled up to the line for my first run in my new 69 Camaro super gas car, there was a lot of comotion going on that of course I could only see, but; could not hear over the sound of the car. Come to find out that Bill had, unknown to me, gone to the owner of Milan Dragway and had them make a big todo about my new car and announce that at the wheel was "Bondo Bob"! That name has stuck with me through all of the racing we ever did, here in MI, in Ohio, and in Kentucky, so when I started making custom saddles it simply seemed like the logical name for my shop. Beside it gives me a chance to have a little fun and think about the old days every time I tell the story. Sorry if I bored you!

Bondo Bob Custom Saddles

[badger]

Great story Bob.

I don't have a good story for my little leatherworking company name. It's called 'Skin-Job because I'm a big Sci-Fi fan and the name is referenced by Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica both. That and the fact that it sounds a bit rude

However my nickname, 'Badger', came about when I was a Fireman in London many years ago. I had a dark Van Dyke beard which had a grey stripe each side, at the corners of my mouth.

At change of Watch one day, a new guy walked into the Watchroom, gestured at me with his thumb and said 'Hey, is that guy eating a Badger?'

Much hilarity ensued. It stuck.

Cheers,

Karl

[Todd]

Garedn River Custom Saddles

The Garden River runs through my property which also gave me the Garden River Ranch name which I love because I have a grizzly bear emblem with the initials GRR under it. lol