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[bullwhips]

Brian,

You know you can get the roo skins from Paul Nolan at www.midwestwhips.com for $15 a foot for veg tanned drum stuffed. He has a variety of suppliers and usually has roo from Packers...and I know he's had roo from Taubman in the past. So in the future you could save quite a bit of money getting it from Paul.

Louie

[KnotHead]

I like that pricing and it'd be quicker to get to me too. Hmmm. The next bit a money goin into this one. Thanks Louie.

[8thsinner]

So your thinking of selling lace too?

What sort of prep?

[Alberta Bound]

I emailed Hardtke recently and they also have drum stuffed Packer roo for $11.35. I haven't ordered from them before but I've heard some good things. Decent prices too, but I'm not sure what their shipping would be like.

[roo4u]

their rates are very reasonable...just the regular ups shipping when i order from them and i usually do cod as well

[bullwhips]

Brian,

One of the cool things about getting roo from Paul is that he's in the Las Vegas area, so it's cheap to ship to us in Washington State and it's usually here the 2nd day!

Louie

[entiendo]

Brian,

You know you can get the roo skins from Paul Nolan at www.midwestwhips.com for $15 a foot for veg tanned drum stuffed. He has a variety of suppliers and usually has roo from Packers...and I know he's had roo from Taubman in the past. So in the future you could save quite a bit of money getting it from Paul.

Louie

Does that $15 include shipping? And what colors does he have? I just paid for mine I'll have to do the math. I do adore my supplier though so there would have to be pretty good difference in price.

I just noticed.... 11.35! How is that possible!

Edited October 18, 2010 by entiendo

[entiendo]

It does appear that I pay 16.35 a square foot if my math is correct. Thanks roo, I would have never thought to figure it out. It's one of those things, you pay what it costs. I'd break down the string cost but that would be way to much trouble so I'll leave it there.

[8thsinner]

Or quality presumably...

Thats given me an idea, but I will not change this thread too much further.

[bullwhips]

The $15 from midwestwhips is without shipping. The advantage of getting from a whip maker instead of a leather supplier is they usually sort their skins by what a whip maker would want. Leather suppliers like Hardtke don't sort it the same way, you can request certain characteristics, but you don't know if you'll get them until it arrives.

For example if you call Paul Nolan or David Morgan and say you want to make a six foot whip, they will sell you a great hide for that. If you call hardtke and say you want to make a six foot whip...they'll send you what they have (which isn't necessarily what you want). You can't beat hardtke on price...I order a ton from them, but never know exactly what I'm getting until it shows up. With Paul or David if I'm looking for skins to make a pair of whips I'll get two skins that will make a great pair of whips.

So for me I use hardtke when I'm blindly ordering skins with no specific project in mind, and I order from a whip maker is I need skins for a specific project.

I'm amazed that more people don't do or haven't done the math to figure out what things cost. To me that's a very big deal, if I"m paying a lot per square foot I want a skin that I"m not going to have to trim a lot off of, otherwise I'm throwing a way a lot of money. On the other hand if it's inexpensive I don't mind cutting out a bit more stretchy area.

One more thing you always have to consider when figuring out your square foot cost is the exchange rate. For example right now the US dollar and the Australian dollar are almost even, so I'd buy from an US source right now. However a few months ago there was almost a 15% difference which would have been a better time to deal with an Australian source than right now.

Louie

Edited October 18, 2010 by bullwhips