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<blockquote data-quote="M5farm" data-source="post: 1203044" data-attributes="member: 18487"><p>Sadly it's a dying art. I have been working with leather along time and several years ago explored opening a shop. The cost of equipment is very expensive. It's hard to find used equipment at a reasonable price. The time it takes to turn out a nice product is not relative to what a customer will pay. People don't repair shoes anymore. Custom made belts can be profitable but the problem is you would need your shop set up in Wal-Mart to sell enough to live off of. Holsters are in demand but Mexican and Asian holsters flood the market and 99% of.people don't want to wait for one to be made. I used to make enough repairing saddles and such to buy supplies and more leather but the crazy horse people think restiching a horn, or replacing rawhide on stirrups is only worth 10 bucks. I started telling them up front how much it would cost and I weeded out the ones I didn't want to fool with. I still have a couple people that I still do work for and they understand a good repair takes time and good material. I enjoy working with leather more than any other hobby I've got. I do it all by hand and no machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M5farm, post: 1203044, member: 18487"] Sadly it's a dying art. I have been working with leather along time and several years ago explored opening a shop. The cost of equipment is very expensive. It's hard to find used equipment at a reasonable price. The time it takes to turn out a nice product is not relative to what a customer will pay. People don't repair shoes anymore. Custom made belts can be profitable but the problem is you would need your shop set up in Wal-Mart to sell enough to live off of. Holsters are in demand but Mexican and Asian holsters flood the market and 99% of.people don't want to wait for one to be made. I used to make enough repairing saddles and such to buy supplies and more leather but the crazy horse people think restiching a horn, or replacing rawhide on stirrups is only worth 10 bucks. I started telling them up front how much it would cost and I weeded out the ones I didn't want to fool with. I still have a couple people that I still do work for and they understand a good repair takes time and good material. I enjoy working with leather more than any other hobby I've got. I do it all by hand and no machines. [/QUOTE]
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