Members Black Orchard Books Posted September 26, 2014 Members Report Posted September 26, 2014 I know I'm a bit late to the party here but I use a great leather supplier in Northampton called Dickens Brothers. They're happy to sell by the single hide and they always send within a couple of days if it's in stock.http://www.dickensbrothers.co.uk/ Quote
alexitbe Posted May 2, 2015 Report Posted May 2, 2015 Woul be interested to hear if anyone has ordered from the German tannaries an if so can they recommend any? Cheers Alex Quote
Members gmace99 Posted May 2, 2015 Members Report Posted May 2, 2015 I am in the trade and buy from Sedgewick's and Pittards direct. They will only supply the trade. However if you want their leather Abbey will sell you it at a premium. I rarely buy from Abbey as there prices are not the best I have found. I used to use Andrew Midgeley and sons and found them to be a really helpful company. Midgeleys will sell small amounts and carry several types of leather, If they don't sell what you are after I am sure they will point you in the right direction. If you are after some light brown 4.5 mil thick saddle/bridle leather (if I remember correctly it is more a new market type brown good for making belts also) I was offered some the other day from a guy in Walsall for around £40/45 a butt. it looked like sedgewicks leather and if it was it would normally cost about £110. Message me on this if you want more details. I made a bag out of this leather and if you look at my other post in show off you can see it..it was a wood and leather bag. the colour is lighter than it is in the photo. Quote www.uksaddlery.com Saddlery training courses in Dunoon Scotland UK.
Members Nishino Posted September 17, 2016 Members Report Posted September 17, 2016 Just started in leatherwork and been to http://jtbatchelor.co.uk/ very helpful, nothing on their website but they will email you a catalogue and I visited their site and they were happy for me to just wander around tehir shels and look and feel at all tey leather to choose. Bought some veg tan shoulder for about £5 a foot which I am very happy with Quote
Members HENDREFORGAN Posted September 28, 2016 Members Report Posted September 28, 2016 Whilst I have used many suppliers over the decades, included oddments purchased off eBay, the only two who I 101% trust to replicate a hide that might have originally been bought from them but some of it has been on my stock shelf for several years are Abbey England (formerly known as Abbey Saddlery) and Metropolitan Leathers. You do have to accept that for that quality of service you're not going to get a cheap hide. Each and every country will have it's own unique hides that buyers in other countries will drool over . . I do with some of the leather readily available to US customers that I can't import as our authorities regard the original animal as an endangered specie . . but, on the whole, when it comes to full grain, even top grain, veg-tanned hides many will quote British hides as amongst the finest available. This isn't because we have some miracle process that we're keeping to ourselves, no, it's to do with our farmers. You see our beef cows are very well looked after during their average life span of 30 months, most fields don't have barbed wire fences and any fly infestation is quickly treated by a vet. The result is a flawless hide when tanned. You get what you pay for . . . Quote Always remember. Every engineer out there now stands on the shoulders of ALL other engineers who went before them.
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