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I visit several times a year and every visit is rewarding.  They have closeout stuff that can't ever make it into a catalog or the web.  Several tables outside where you can find bargains.  Belt blanks, wallet backs, hardware, etc.  A huge box of remnants sold by the pound is awesome for smaller projects.

Discount sides in multiple colors and types.  Tools galore and very friendly, helpful staff.  Jeff, in particular helps me a bunch.

I you are into beads and/or jewelry this is also your place.

If passing by, stop!  You won't be sorry.

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Great place to visit. They have amusing ads in the LCSJ. I stopped there several times on my way from Ohio to Norman, OK.

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Thanks, Tony for the tour. Living in Florida my goal is to make it there someday. Rusty did a great job as usual with the video. SLC is my go-to source for all things leather. Always good deals on veg tan. You guys are awesome! 

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Well that looks like a lotsa good stuff.  But.. no "Girls of Springfield" calendar?@!

 

 

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IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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They are the BEST.

If they served food, I could live there!

When you visit, be prepared to spend a long time there because in person, the place is LARGE, with not only Leather craft supplies but all kinds of other products for your creative hobby needs.

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Thanks, that was fun to  watch.

I was curious what they might be generating sales wise and did a back of the envelope calculation using the stats shared in the video.  I came up a respectable $15M in sales.  Then I was curious what total sales were for this micro industry (hobbyist/handcrafted business) so I combined SLC's $15M with Tandy's $85M to get $100M then doubled that to account for all the rest.  That gets you a $200M industry which sounds like a lot until you consider that the US Leather Hide Industry alone exports $2B in sales and that the entire global leather market is around $100B.  So that means our little slice is a mere two tenths of one percent of the economic pie and shows just how rare a breed we really are.  And I rather like that.

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I wish I could see the video! :(

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Brian

 

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12 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

I wish I could see the video! :(

Looks like it was shared on Facebook.  If you use Facebook, try logging in to it and see if it works for you then.  What kind of error or message do you get when you try to view it?

Tom

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