It Must Be Just Me!?

[hidepounder]

GOLIGER LEATHER! 888-444-4337

Ask for Cheryl.....use my name if you want, but you won't need to...

Bobby

Edited April 28, 2011 by hidepounder

[Frank]

I've always used Wickett & Craig, and I deal with Glen every time. So far I have only had one issue but it was resolved the same day. I order leather and have it split so I know my order takes 8-10 days in order to ship. At any given time I have 10-14 sides of leather in the shop, some lining, english bridle, latigo, and regular veg. tan. I deal mostly with holster and gun belts so when I have only enough of a certain type of leather to make 3-4 holsters then I order more. I never wait until I desperately need it. They do not charge your card until the day your order ships and the invoice unless you specify otherwise, will be sent in the mail and arrives a day or two after your leather. They are like clockwork as far as I'm concerned. I've never had bad dealings with them at all but I'm sure as with every other business, things happen every so many customers.

Frank

[JohnD]

Thanks for all the responses. I appreciate all the recommendations and shared experiences.

I got the leather yesterday. I did have it split, but, as Glen told me "a couple of days", I didn't expect the long delay. The quality seems fine. The leather seems a bit white to me, like Tandy's, Which I'm not a fan of, but I expect it will take dye better than Tandy's. It does have some scratches and long dark marks from handling, but I guess that's to be expected. Pretty clean hides otherwise.

Like I said, I like to think I'm a decent customer, if I like the way the leather works, I may give them another try. When I ordered the leather I had 4 seats to make and enough leather for definitely 2 maybe 3 (turned out to be 2), so I figured a week, week and a half, before I was desperate. With Weaver I had received my order, shipped it back and got a new one in that time frame, so I wasn't worried. In the mean time I have 2 more seat pans added to the mix and riding season rapidly approaching, I worried.

I do prefer the color of The HO so I will definitely look into some of the places you guys recommended. Thanks again for the responses.

John

[Randy Cornelius]

If you like the color of HO then order the russet skirting from W&C and have it split to your desired thickness. The skirting will be large sides where as the tooling leather tends to be some what smaller hides and has the paler color.

[JohnD]

Thanks for the advice Randy. Will the skirting take dye if I wanted to? Will I be able to tool it ? I'll have to check that out.

I've been working on some seats for the past couple of days and I like the quality of this leather. I like the look of the Grain compared to the HO, it dyes evenly and just looks really nice. I think it tools a little differently than the HO, Which I've gotten kind of used to.

Lately, I've been casing my leather in the same manner that Paul Burnett refers to as Quick casing in his lessons and I think I may just need to make some adjustments for the W&C. It seemed a little "grabby" on the walking tools, and I had to strop my swivel knife a lot more frequently than I usually do with the HO.

Also, the tooling didn't burnish the way that it does with the HO. This could all have to do with the casing ,which may just take some adjustment to get right. I only have one seat that needed to be carved, one is getting a basket weave and the others are just plain black, so I'll do some messing around on the scraps once I get these out.

Thanks again for all the responses.

John