steveb’s leatherworks: daily blather

daved is back in his shop making blades and we are collaborating on a few pieces. Here is my blade (part of a barter deal) with my own practice sheath…2 rows of stitching are tough to pull off on a sheath made of 10oz veg tan..tough stuff to manage,….each one is a labor of love. [...]

Flatiron Mike class trip to Pepe\’s Pizza/ New Haven, CT <<–check out the 80sec video Took a nice ride with Flatiron Mike and a few new friends up to Pepe’s Pizza this past Sunday. Temps werent too bad – it was in the 40′s. We met up close to home and within 20min of highway [...]

if you see Jake on his sportster…i have one word of advice..run!

Jason and his crew needed an adult chaperone to take them through CT, MA and VT -and so enlisted the services of yours truly. We ate copious amounts of BBQ’d meat, we drank just a modest number of adult beverages, it was a grand time and a great ride.

I was fortunate and had a chance to hook with an old friend from back in the day, recently – his name is Don. This consumate character lives in Cali and I can almost forgive him bailing on the East (East Coast Rules) because ya see, Don grew up in Lackawanna, a hardscrabble town on [...]

I like hanging out by the water if given a choice…and it is especially good to do if i can have an adult beverage in my hand when i am enjoying the scenery and even better’er  if there is a plate of food in front of me. Visiting good friend Wiz in Bflo some time [...]

Took a quick ride with Shank today. It didn’t suck.

Not a tremendously complicated piece, Val’s cuff didnt take a particularly long time to make, and wasnt much of a technical challenge for me… but like every cusom made piece, it took a bit of thought, clarity on what my customer wanted and a bit of care…in design and in production. Val wanted a cuff [...]

Eddie inspired this belt case design – it holds a mini Maglite and a Leatherman. We were in Sturgis in 2008 and on more than one occasion he had the tool needed to take on the job at hand, pulling it from a similar sheath on his belt. I asked if I could cop the [...]

breakfast run

Saw a mismnatched pair at Bill’s Drive In. Guys looked like friends from way back with the Harley rider of the two saying the “he tried” talking sense into his Honda riding buddy when he bought the Honda…ha.. bless our friends… whatever would we do without them?

Pupkin and I went and  visited the Greek the other day. The trip is a southbound 2hr slog through the NYC/NJ urban sprawl – which we made is surprisingly good time, flying the entire way (and if you’ve ever travelled with the two of us, i do mean flying)..with nary a lick of traffic – quite amazing. To boot, [...]