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I believe that LEFARC only sells to large operations and if I understand the history of Saddleback Leather the LEFARC tannery is very small and private.  I do know that they use pretty much the same tanning formula as Chahin as that is the standard for Mexico and all of Central and South America (cheaper to produce as the vegetable matters used are common to the area whereas the Oak isn't).  Odds are that your testing was conducted with leather that comes from the same process so I would suggest that your results would not be too much different if done with leather from Chahin.  I don't see the prices for leather from the Hide House in the form of a whole side as I order from them at the wholesale pricing which is actually based on per square foot.  I just received another 8 to 9 oz. Hermann Oak side that came in at 29.7 square feet and my price was at the $179 mark for that one (it is already gone too as it has been turned into 32 belts over the past few days).  The Hide House website does take a bit to get used to as it is still quite antiquated but for all of your tooling leather just look under the heading for Saddlery; your linings can easily be found under Orthopedic and/or Boot and Shoe.  Once you spend a little time in there you quickly figure it out.

The term "seconds" is typically used to identify a product that was found to be of substandard quality by the manufacturer during their QC checks.  In the case of leather it typically means that there are marks, scratches, rips, holes, etc. that caused it to be rejected for sale to the distributors that they typically work with but they were more than happy to sell it off to a lesser distributor for basically the costs to produce the product.  Horween is good leather but it is pretty much pre-finished and you can't do much else with it.  Each type of leather produced by Horween also has a targeted use and most of them do not respond to adhesives (if you use them to preposition components) very well.

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Yes, they do sell only to large operations. They ask for a minimum of 100 sides of one color... they do have a couple of retailers in Mexico, but it seems they don't sell their premium products there... I'd guess they do have some sort of exclusive deals with several brands.

If that's the real meaning of seconds, I know I don't want to buy one of those online... if ever, I'd need to see it in a brick and mortar store to decide first-hand.

I'm navigating through the Hide House site now and starting to get the hang of it.

Again, thanks a lot!

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