anyone using this stamp?

[Boriqua]

https://www.tandyleather.com/en/product/craftool-pro-stamp-basketweave-x2844

If you are .. what are you using it for/on. I  have used it on about 4 holsters. Seems to be a hard sell? I think its neat looking but everything I have put it on has been cursed to live with me for a couple of months before leaving. Maybe  have just gotten spoiled but I have been happily selling almost every holster I make in a couple of weeks but not anything with this stamp. I have a double rope basket weave and a plain basketweave (x511) and I can make the holsters all exactly the same in color and design but use the above stamp and it sits while the others run out of here.

At first I thought maybe because there is some religious significance to it. I have produced other things with some Christian symbolism and they also sat. Seems bashing Christians is cool now so maybe that is it. Made 6 small carry bags of the same physical design but differing in color and scheme and the only one I was left with was one I had put a snap on that had a cross on it.

Then I thought .. maybe the stamp looks to much like an iron cross and that comes with some baggage. I dont know .. I am baffled but this stamp hasnt been good to me so maybe I am just not using it on the right projects. My wife says use it on biker gear. I have a tool roll in the works that is cut but hasnt moved from there so maybe I will try it on that. I may land up relegating a $25 stamp to ebay

So if you use it .. what are you using it on?

Edited July 6, 2016 by Boriqua

[Colt W Knight]

I made some guitar straps with crosses, and I thought they would sell quickly because of all the positive feedback I got from facebook. I ended up giving them away, just wouldn't sell. Seems folks prefer the stereotypical western floral and basketweave leather stuff.

[TLP]

I think you answered your own question,  Your other work sells in a timely manner,  this does not,  time to put this stamp in the back of your drawer.  If someone asks for it then Ok, burt otherwise stick with what sells.

[Boriqua]

well that cinches it .. I put together another holster that I had cut when I cut the other. They are the same pattern for the same gun with just about the same coloring but this one I did with a double rope basketweave..... I just sold it ... it was under 2 weeks! Something about that petonce cross just makes it poison.... hmmmm.

Edited July 15, 2016 by Boriqua

[Bob Blea]

My first thought when I saw the stamp in your post was the movie Frozen.  It looked like a snowflake to me at first.  I'm guessing there isn't a market out there for Frozen themed holsters...

[Boriqua]

17 minutes ago, Bob Blea said:

My first thought when I saw the stamp in your post was the movie Frozen.  It looked like a snowflake to me at first.  I'm guessing there isn't a market out there for Frozen themed holsters...

Dude that is Hysterical!!! So Maybe I am just marketing it wrong ... " Are you a true Bad A@@ gun slinger, come git yer Frozen themed Snowflake holster at Boriqua Leather" Ariel shell design coming soon! 

[TonyRV2]

Just for giggles and grins, take a medium sized seeder and stamp the middle of each cross in order to make it look...well...not so cross-like, and see what happens.  

[leatherwytch]

What you need to realize is that not everyone wants crosses, skulls, or naked women/men on their things. I do not make thing with any religious symbols, skulls or naked women/men on them unless it is ordered or I am going somewhere where that is the theme.

 

Randi

[Boriqua]

That is a good idea Tony .. very creative thinking. Randi ... I honestly, perhaps stupidly, didnt realize it was a cross. I just thought it was a nifty design especially repeated as it is with a basketweave. It wasn't until after I bought it that I came on here and asked what it was that I realized it had some religious significance. I just thought it was neat.