Book

[Trav]

Just received a book from a guy whom i didnt know, but he was cleaning out an old house. Said he was told that I was learning to do leather work. ANYWAY, the book is titled "LEATHERWORK MANUAL'', written by AL Stohlman,A.D. Patten,and J.A. Wilson.Book was published in 1969. Book is in excellent condition. Do any of you know the last two authors? Trav

[Johanna]

I looked on the shelf, and I have the exact same book, too. Mine still has the Tandy stock # 1891 and price of $5.99 sticker. I have no idea who the other two authors of the book are, but I think (and I may be wrong!) that this book was used in the Al Stohlman Home Study Course at one time. It's written as a textbook, in a style unlike AS's other books. I hope someone can fill in the missing details- I'm curious now!

Johanna

[Trav]

I looked on the shelf, and I have the exact same book, too. Mine still has the Tandy stock # 1891 and price of $5.99 sticker. I have no idea who the other two authors of the book are, but I think (and I may be wrong!) that this book was used in the Al Stohlman Home Study Course at one time. It's written as a textbook, in a style unlike AS's other books. I hope someone can fill in the missing details- I'm curious now!

Johanna

Johanna,thanks for the reply. My copy does not have the price tag, but i would bet that we have a book that has much more value than the original.Anyway, i am happy to have my copy. There is much good info. inthis one.BTW, any recomendations for other books to look for ? Trav

[kevinhopkins]

Hi Trav...I can help a little.... John Wilson is one of the Authors. And Johanna is right about the book being used in the Al Stohlman course. The last (current) version has been revised a bit, to show the basic western floral carving tools in conjunction with a "half back", which Tandy was promoting instead of rounders. The original book did the same thing, just with a rounder. I think I carved about 4 trillion of those rounders during the days when I was traveling and teaching leather craft at schools. Anyway, I met John Wilson at a Tandy managers meeting back in the 70's. He was quite an imposing figure, and had been an associate of Charles Tandy, if I remember correctly. He was a very charismatic man, could carve leather pretty well, and was nearing the end of his career with Tandy when I met him. I never kept up on whatever happened to him, but I'm quite sure that he's no longer alive, because he was at least in his 60's when I met him. I know that's not much, but it's all I got!

Kevin Hopkins

[kevinhopkins]

I forgot.... (senility setting in) You asked about any other books...there's a book by Raymond Cherry... I think it's called General Leather craft. I suspect you'd like it. As to any value of the Leather Manual, I don't think it has much at the moment, because the new version is still available, and I think the old one is too, if you know where to look... When Tandy closed it's store system, I ended up with close to 100 Cases of those things at 10 cts apiece! We sold quite a few thru out the prison system in this country, and we sold a fair number of them to Birdsall Leather in Australia.

kevin

[Trav]

I forgot.... (senility setting in) You asked about any other books...there's a book by Raymond Cherry... I think it's called General Leather craft. I suspect you'd like it. As to any value of the Leather Manual, I don't think it has much at the moment, because the new version is still available, and I think the old one is too, if you know where to look... When Tandy closed it's store system, I ended up with close to 100 Cases of those things at 10 cts apiece! We sold quite a few thru out the prison system in this country, and we sold a fair number of them to Birdsall Leather in Australia.

kevin

Kevin, thanks for the very interesting information.It is just amazing to me that all this information is right at your finger tips just for the asking.Thanks also for the tip on the book. when I am not working on knives or sheaths, i am reading about leather. Thanks again. Trav