Black Mountains Leather Tools

[JazzBass]

Sound advice, @hwinbermuda - a physical address and a contact number of a real person is most certainly NOT too much to ask.

[stormcrow]

As far as I know they are UK based as I've probably ordered from them about 5/6 times now and they have always delivered to me in UK in about 2 days.

I've mainly been ordering Yue Fung threads but I recently ordered their brass utility knife with D2 steel blade and I am extremely happy with it, I prefer it to my Indispensable knife much more comfortable in my hand and the blade is excellent quality too way better than the Tina blades I have for my Indispensable.

[stormcrow]

 

I've just checked their now closed Etsy shop and according to that they are based in Abergavenny, Wales

[bermudahwin]

Thanks Stormcrow,

All of the IT triggers point to their domain providers in Canada.

From my understanding of UK sales sites, they seem to be lacking in basic details.

It's a shame as it would be great to have more suppliers in the UK.

If you have a receipt with contact details please pm me as I like the look of one of the tools.

Thank you

Harry

[Matt S]

The whois lookup appears that the domain is registered to a Canadian company that sells domains. However the Black Mountains are indeed in south Wales. There is very little context info on this page or their Fakebook page so who knows?

I'm leaning towards a genuine Welsh leatherworker who wants to offset the cost of their hobby by doing a little reselling.

As to the tools they look like the higher end of Chinese tools. Not knocking on their quality per se but I'd like to at least know the origin of a tool for which I'd hypothetically forking out 80 of my hard-earned pounds.

[bermudahwin]

Keen to know a bit about the edge planes, and how they hold sharpness.

H

Edited December 7, 2018 by hwinbermuda

[stormcrow]

On 07/12/2018 at 6:28 AM, hwinbermuda said:

Thanks Stormcrow,

All of the IT triggers point to their domain providers in Canada.

From my understanding of UK sales sites, they seem to be lacking in basic details.

It's a shame as it would be great to have more suppliers in the UK.

If you have a receipt with contact details please pm me as I like the look of one of the tools.

Thank you

Harry

Sorry I’ve checked but I don’t have any receipts .

[Instinctive]

Black Mountain is owned by Devilhide Leather (Instagram @devilhide_leather).

He is using Shopify for the tools sales site. Shopify is a Canadian company which would explain the Canadian IP trail.

I donlt know anything about the quality of what he sells on this site and from a marketing perspective, always good to have more comprehensive information about your company including a physical address and phone number.

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by Instinctive

[bermudahwin]

Thank you both.

Harry

[devilhide]

Hello everybody,

Its Argo here and i’m one half of black mountain leather. My wife is the other, we started bmlc as i was struggling to get many of the things i needed/wanted  inside the u.k. 

As you can see i have my own leather work started working with leather around 2011 and still learning with every piece i make. Luckily i seem to have found a good following for my work and get to improve with every piece i make. My first love of leather work was the tooling aspect but find myself pushing to make more complicated interiors on wallets. 

We are fairly new company only started trading this year. I personally have worked in retail all my life and still do in the cycling industry. I work with tool makers from around the world bringing in affordable tools that i would be happy with. I also like to work closely on design aspects when i can and have a lot of input on materials used. We ship worldwide but really did not expect to get many orders from outside the u.k. as this was started to help support the leathercraft community in the u.k. obviously not complaining.

I am currently very tired from moving home and my other half has just broken her wrist so struggling a little with our two little girls. Feel free to ask any questions i might have missed. 

 

Thank you all cor your support 

Argo