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This past week has been an exhilarating one for me. I’ve spent the whole week in our annual planning meetings. I know some of you may cringe at the word “meeting,” but for me it is one thing I look forward to every year. It may be that every person o

With proper care, leather can last a lifetime or longer. Since 1902, Pecard Leather Care Products offer an easy, inexpensive and effective way to provide exceptional leather maintenance. Proper care consists of conditioning the leather a few times a

The TandyPro® Manual Strap Cutter quickly and easily cuts a side of leather into straps or belt blanks. This machine cuts up to seven 1» (2.5 cm) wide straps of up to 10 oz. (4.0 mm) leather at once and includes 1/8» and 1/4» spacers allowing for str

This ChahinLeather® vegetable tanned leather can’t be tooled but it makes colorful and gorgeous belts, collars, and accessories! We have 8/9oz available in multiple colors. Need a different thickness? Send us an email at info@aleatherd.com for orderi

Bevel the edges of 3/8” to 3” straps the quick and easy way with our compact, hand-operated Master Tool EZ Edge Strap Beveler. With the capability to round two edges simultaneously, this machine saves you time and boosts productivity. After edging th

The leather industry lost a legend, and a nice guy, when Randy Severe of Pendleton, Oregon, passed away on November 21st, after an almost two-month battle with Covid-19. Randy was a long-time member of the Pendleton Round Up board of directors and ap

Thanks to ShopTalk! for the invitation to contribute to Industry Tips. Since I spend most of my time working in the knifemaking-leather cutlery world (and not specifically in the leather industry), I had to come up with something that would be helpfu

Figure skating legend Brian Boitano, who won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics, still has the first pair of skates he got at the age of nine. Why hang on to something you outgrew an eon and a half ago? Simple. Boitano's childhood winter-sport boots a

Global Leathers, a wholesale/retail distributor based at West 35th Street, New York, New York, carries a richly diverse array of tanned leather products sourced from around the world, including exotics, metallics, natural hair-on leather skins and mu

The emergency light has been on for the better part of the year as companies across every industry scrambled to provide for their employees’ safety, stability, and security needs during the COVID-19 crisis. Some of the most important resources they’v

STEP 1 – First we will go over the tools we will need. We will need a knife for cutting, a 5/8 slot punch, a inch and a half, half round and a draw knife. STEP 2 – Grab the leather you are working with. For this demonstration we will be using 8/9 oz

The June heat came off the tarmac in shimmery waves outside the cattle pens at the Oklahoma City stockyards. It was just another sale day, and the cowboy enjoyed moving the cattle up the alleys on horseback after they were sold. It was just a part-ti