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About Us
Our
Workshop
We are a small
family run business. We do everything the old way, by hand.
And this is how we do it.
Believe it or
not I started this business in a one room apartment in New York in September of
2001 and this one table was all I had to work with. I've always believed in
customer support, and in working for a living. Providing a good product at a
reasonable price and selling lots. Rather then over pricing everything to get
rich quick at the customers expense.
Since opening the business our customers have been more then great, and my
little business has grown substantially as you'll see below. Mostly thanks to
our wonderful customers
Our shop now, and its many work
areas
This is our
cutting table, where all leather items start. The first step is cutting a hide
down to a size that will fit on the table, then this table is used to cut the
hide into nice straight usable strips.
The table is 12 feet long, the average hide is about 10 feet, so occasionally
the table is barely long enough.
Below the table is our leather storage area, above is where we store exotic
hides like shark, deer, snake, etc.
and at the end you'll notice our boxes, this table often doubles as our shipping
table.
Like most everything in our shop this table is something we designed, it allows
us to cut 10' long hides into any width straps we need, up to 6 1" straps
or 4 2" straps can be cut at the same time, thus increasing efficiency and
reducing costs.
On the back wall you'll notice our patterns, again these allow us to produce
nice items, by hand, efficiently.
Taking a closer look
at the cutting table you'll find that our lash cutter also resides here. This
little device allows us to cut 10 1/4" lashes or 5 1/2" lashes at a
time, Larger ones are done on the cutting table.
Next, most
items find themselves at one of our work tables. They may not look like much,
but these tables are the heart of our operation. they are setup so everything
needed to complete a job is close at hand. including instruction manuals, Safety
glasses, and dust masks. We firmly believe in being as safe as possible, and I
think everyone should.
The closest table is my table. This is where most new items are designed, and
where all custom items are produced. unfortunately the business end usually
keeps me busy and I get very little work done in the shop.
The far off table is for our staff table. This is where most of the work is
actually done, everything from floggers to slings usually come from this table,
and are usually made by our staff. Our staff is a very important part of the
business as they produces most everything.
And between them is a heavy solid steel table, the top of this table weighs in
at about 200 pounds, and allows us to set rivets very fast by providing a large
solid surface to beat on.
The wood working area. This
is the newest addition to our shop.
It has everything needed to produce our furniture items fast, and right, all in
one area.
Again this is something we designed specifically to make the items we produce.
On one side you'll find the cutoff saw. We don't measure anything with this saw,
the saw table can be set to any measurement we need and then it will cut every
board put in it at the exact same measurement.
On the other side you'll find our jig. The jig has all the right corners for
putting our furniture together, it insures that everything is nice and square
and it also accepts our furniture patterns, stored overhead
This area is still in the works and we are still learning to fully utilize it.
Lets not forget
old faithful. This sewing machine is so old that parts for it no longer exists
but we keep a few old machines around to steal parts from. This is an old sears,
Kenmore machine with a lot of modifications inside and out to make it work with
leather.
We've tried new machines but they never seem to have the power needed to handle
heavy leathers, this machine has an external motor with a belt drive. with the
modifications it has the power and ability to do the job we need it to do.
Eventually we may retire it but I don't know. why fix something that's not
broken?
Behind the sewing machine you'll see our metal working area, with our grinder,
drill press, and other miscellaneous tools.
Throughout the
shop is many little devices we use. our plaiting stand is one of these. We do
our plaiting the same way its been done for ages. the handle is attached to the
stand, you sit down and sometime later you have finished plaiting a handle. Its
a slow method but it is the way plaiting is supposed to be done, by hand.
Machines are great for some things, but knowing something was made by a person,
one strand at a time makes it special, and some things are just meant to be
special.
And last but
not least there is the office.
They say "behind every good man is a good woman" and you better
believe there is one behind me.
Besides being a wonderful wife and my driving force, starla has a great mind for
business. she does nearly all of our customer support, billing, taxes, etc, etc.
and she's really good at keeping me organized. I could have never built our
business to this point without her full support. starla is a special kind of
woman, the kind that knows how to question me, but more importantly, knows how
to be quiet and support my efforts even when I'm making a mistake
This concludes the tour of our shop.
I would like to take a second
to thank our customers who have allowed my little one table shop to grow into
the business it has become today, and what it will be tomorrow.
Thank You for visiting our shop, I hope you will be one of the customers who
will help us to build an even bigger business in the future. We always try to
give something back to the community, we always try to keep our prices as low as
possible, and our quality as high as possible. We can only do this with the
support of our customers.
