What's In A Name

[Pip]

Hi Everyone

I am launching my hobby into a craft business, small at first then growing. I am looking for a name!! I used to be slash converters when I made armour, but I don't really make armour now, except for commission.

I make small usually carved leather goods and jewellry, but mainly carved bracelets, pouches,belts and bags.

My surname is Harding

Nickname is chief (as in Chief Brompton from one flew over the Cuckoos nest)

Leatherworker name: Pip (as in Pipistrelle bat) (I rescue sick bats)

I am a wanderer on the darker side of life but this doesn't always show in my craft, and have a connection to nature and teach outdoors/bushcraft/forest school. I am really struggling, the only thing I can think of is at my first show to do a naming raffle, where people can think up a name for me and the winner wins a prize??

Thanks in advance

Pip

[Jim]

Hmmmm

The Crows Nest comes to mind.

[JAZZMAN]

Hardleather crafts?

[smirak]

Pip Harding Leather, with an indian chief headdress as the "symbol"?

[Craftsman Made]

Liver Leather as in Liverpool. Vamp Leather as in Vampire Bat

[TwinOaks]

Pip-squeak Leather

Incidentally, I still have that small pouch I got from you in one of the Pay It Forward rounds.

[Pip]

Pip-squeak Leather

Incidentally, I still have that small pouch I got from you in one of the Pay It Forward rounds.

I am glad you still have it, twin oaks, its got to be a few years now! Do they still do pay it forward??

Tried pip-squeek , they make kids shoes, vamp make ladies shoes, Pip Harding is too formal for me I think. Hardleather not sure it really suits the jewellery aspect maybe a biker market, Liver leather another great suggestion and one I landed at first but it also reads liver (as in the body part). A friend thought of Jackal and hide but that's gone too, they make bags. I keep checking on the computer to fin the names gone

Thanks so much for your help, it is such a difficult thing almost as bad as pricing!!

Pip

[Pip]

I like crows nest too!!

[Pip]

Take a look at some of my gear

Edited May 14, 2015 by Pip

[TexasLady]

Hi Pip. I'll surely mull over the clues you've given us and hope it will all come together in a good business name for you. Just need to sleep on it first.

In researching the name Harding, I see that it is related to Hardin, one of my family's names. My Great-grandmother's first cousin was an infamous Texas gunslinger, John Wesley Hardin.

http://www.selectsurnames.com/harding.html

" William Hardin fled Tennessee to escape a murder charge. He ended up in Texas, an early settler there and later a respected judge. However, his nephew, John Wesley Hardin, turned into one of the notorious gunfighters and outlaws of the Old West."

http://www.hhhdna.com/

Edited May 15, 2015 by TexasLady