steveb leatherworks: the blather

What is this? Its a long bone wallet –  I hate to tease you, but this one is no longer available. The long bone is a big wallet. It holds a lot of stuff. It’s a unique, one of a kind unit. Its made of great American-tanned vegetable tanned leather, the very same leather used […]

Yea maaaan, this is the kind of email i like to get. Goose was a customer some many long years ago and had me make kind of a matching set, a wallet and a belt for him. As you know, my work isn’t inexpensive, I knew Goose was a  working man and appreciated his appreciation […]

This is the kind of consistent feedback you want to get from your customers… Roger had called me once or twice over the past few years – wanted to see what I was doing, what the cost of different stuff was, etc. Always a nice guy, l i enjoyed talking with him. I hear from […]

Most companies cringe when it comes to talking about their fan mail and comments from their customers.  Conversely, I actually have come to look forward to hearing from the people I do work for and for those in the “trade of leather”, so to speak. At first , many years ago when I’d see an […]

Many of my customers come to me for custom work after previously having had a “not-so-good” experience with leather hobbyists who do “work for hire”.  It’s understandable that this happens – as it takes time to get a handle on the art, the craft and most of all the materials necessary to make something from […]

If you bought one of my wallets and wore it hard everyday for 5 years, what would it look like? Well, this is what Jon’s looks like. Pretty damn good He sent this to me along with an order for a guitar strap. Thanks Jon!!

I was thinking this morning… …it’s really nice to get feedback  about the work we do. Its useful (but not fun) when that feedback is critical, but even then, it can spur you on to do greater things and produce better work. Its even nicer to get feedback that is positive – and so, I […]

Lisa Taylor, friend and SteveB Leatherworks customer was kind enough to send me pictures of a wallet that I gave to her about 2+ years ago. I’d been using it for 3-4 years as a travel wallet to hold travel/on the road documents and receipts. Lisa saw it when i was visiting and liked it […]

hey now — well I was finally able to deliver on my promsie to improve the hardware on my Pocket Wallets. I have teamed up with Duckbill Designs, maker of the duckbill money clip seen here, to up the level of the utility, durability and functionality of my Pocket Wallets. The new money clip is […]

I have some crafty customers. This one supplied a “buck” in the size and shape of his phone for me to use to make the case. It came out nice and i like the color.

Fred wanted a fin. we started off discussing some Steal Your Face Grateful Dead theme. I said, “sure Fred, we can do that, but why – it’s been done a million times”. We wound up with this idea – a pretty crazy stamped up the wazoo textured Fin wallet with a nice stainless chain and […]

Ralph wanted a sheath made for a brand new moderately fancy folder he had just gotten. He wanted it black, he wanted it “fat end towards the bottom and he wanted a lightning bolt applied to it. No problem for this 4 or 5 time returning customer. Simple clean and small, it cam out nice. Thanks Ralph, I appreciate […]

I dont make alot of stuff for myself. Most of what i wear and use is prototype work, usually it is a little rough design and detail wise ..a work still in progress. I usually try something new at the same time  that i am working out a new design – a new material,  a new piece of hardware, a new dye, etc – so really […]

Good personal friend Jeb had a nice blade he wanted a hi-ride sheath for. Made this for him. Came out sweet, cool colors, funky sheath backing that holds tight to a belt,  real good cam lock that holds the blade tight, even if upside down or grabbed by someone else. if you going to wear a vest or […]

I don’t know about all of youse, but I am pretty much done with winter.  I say, lets put March behind us and look forward to Spring and all the positive things that come with it… riding, road tripping spending time out doors and lets not forget, bbq’ing![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2bajYrCtEM[/youtube]

Sleeping when your anyplace but your own comfy bed, at home, insures that some sick bastid is going to take your picture and distribute it. Seems military folks have no problem or qualms about nodding anywhere, anytime – so they make easy targets. It also seems that they take great delight in pranking each other…. and so […]

i get requests from folks that are  behind bars for schwag, brochures, etc. Well today i got a returned sticker in an ominous looking package. Guess this gent isnt allowed to have stockers. Bummer, mine are nice.

Dan’s belt from back in the day – clean, simple – timeless. tasty bit of stamping, some hand-done stitching. Nickel silver buckle with keeper and billet rivets. Beauty of a thick belt, 1.5″ wide – worn daily, for years now –  it is…much loved.

Digging back into the archive for this gem. This is one of those rare instances where a different and good idea snuck out and actually got done. Dan is a friend of Zeb, a good pal of mine and a riding partner. Zeb is also a paying customer, sporting a few bits and pieces of steveb leather garb, as does his […]

Mark, a serial repeat customer and owner of the black pocket wallet pictured below confimed delivery of his unit with this nice note: Hey Steve, I got my pocket wallet today. On the money!! Great work as usual. I ve got to think of something else for you to make, a man can’t have enough […]

Been behind the 8ball lately. Busy here, busy there…the proverbial chicken with no head….I passed myself coming while I was going…and didn’t recognize myself…hey now! Been knocking ’em down in the shop..finally got a handle on what needed to get done and one of the first things to get done was this belt for Customer […]

Once a piece of work leaves the shop, I generally never see it again. I’ve learned to get over it. I don’t have a problem with my “children” needing to run free with their rightful owners. LIke a parent that needs to let the kids leave the roost, so I must say “later” to my […]

So….I’ve got to thank and pay props to my customers…they rock..they keep the steveb globlal freight train rolling down the highway under full steam. Without them, well i’d be putzing around making collars for Paco, my CSO (chief sleeping oficer) that he’d refuse to wear. Where the hell is the fun in that? So Dr. […]

Jon wanted a Big X New Hampshire Fin, never having made a big X New Hampshire fin before, I asked customer Jon for some guidance and he clarified that an outline of he state of New Hampshire (Live free or Die) needed to appear behind the big X and so…here you have it….the big X fin… homage to New Hampshire – another […]