Where To Find These Printed Hides?

[GoldArmored]

Hey there, maybe you can help me out!

I've spent hours looking for these special hides. I'm in Canada but I don't mind buying in the states if the price is reasonable.

Here's the list:

- Realistic leopard print Hair on Hide, short hair (found some on PeggySue Also but maybe there's a better place to buy them, Leather Impact also carry some but we can't see the prices, also they only ship via UPS so it's not a good thing for me)

- Rainbow Holo Stingray Hide (The Leather Guy used to carry them at a great price but now I only see some on RojéLeather for 3x the cost, 125$!!! per hide)

- Brown and Turquoise embossed gator cowhide (I only found it on Springfield website, is there another place where I can buy it?)

- Tan Embossed gator or croc cowhide (I'm looking for that special Tan used in horse tack making like Reinsman and Alamo use. Pic shows all the Tan samples that were sent to me by Tundra and PeggySue and none of them matches my Alamo strap and reinsman set (the tan I'm looking for))

- any other cool print hides, I'm looking for original and colorful stuff for overlays and inlays in horse tack.

Thank!!!

[DavidL]

i would avoid peggysues leather, imo they cost 15-18 a square foot and are average quality upholstery leather that would look off on a saddle. Springfield has a large selection of different leathers. Been fooled by tandy by their hand sewing kit of 100 bucks when i didn't know better and 6 square feet of peggy sue leather for 100 dollars, which was really worth 30-40. Live and you learn i suppose. email springfield leather they will give you a good deal. they have odd shipments of printed leather from end of the run leathers in italian tanneries in stock from time to time.

[WinterBear]

Don't know where to get the hologram skingray other than Roje, but you might take a look at Shark King out of Florida for stingray in bright colors, metallic flake, and camo, zebra, leopard and tiger patterns. http://www.sharkking.com/

Leather Guy has stingray in giraffe prints, various colors of ring lizard, various frog leather, and some cow in a frog print. Also has genuine cape buffalo with an embossed pattern. http://www.theleatherguy.org/ Check the "falling leaf" and "tan" colors of their embossed alligator cowhide--it looks similar to that tack of yours. http://www.theleatherguy.org/STOCK-LEATHERS-147213/8146727-STOCK-LEATHER-Leather/ProductInfo.aspx

Hidehouse has hair-on calf in leopard, cheetah, zebra, and cobra patterns.

[Ed in Tx]

You might want to check with Jerry Van Amburg for the stingray. Jerry always has a wide variety of exotics and is a great guy to deal with. His web site is Van Amburg Leathers www.vanamburgleathers.com He usually has a lot of different stingray prints