Wayne Jueschke

WAYNE TRIES TO COME UP WITH NEW TOOLS FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT WHEN HE DOES, IT’S HARD TO KEEP THEM IN STOCK.

hen you roll across Interstate 80 in Nevada, you pass through a vast swath of the American West. You might appreciate the emptiness of the country. You might wonder how it felt to cross this land on horseback a century and a half ago. Elko, Nevada, has been here since before the highway was thought of. A railroad town, a mining town and home to the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, this town has always been an oasis for the high desert traveler. Perhaps this is the reason, then, that one of the best leather tool makers in the country feels at