FYI: I do humbly apologize to you for my having to charge
you for shipping my hand made leather goods. As you will read in the beginning
ov my next paragraph, I make very little “profit” & our United States Post
office keeps raising the price for their services {2025 recent increase ov
39.8%} at a minimum ov $8.32 & up for mailing your purchase, + eBay
takes 14.5% ov my selling price. I personally look at this S&H price
like putting this money as gas & my time having to RUN to a brick &
morter store. USPS will increase their rates in the beginning
ov 2026. Looks like we have another USPS increase in the beginning ov 2026 it
will be 6.6%;=.55¢ = 8.87
I work awfully close with my selling
prices! I figure my cost of materials and about 5%-15% profit
so I can afford to buy more materials &/or tools.
Leather is expensive, TOOLS are VERY
costly & this is one ov my hobbies, you will notice that I re-use the
envelopes that I get my medications in from the VA so I can save
money. Also please remember that eBay takes almost 13.5% ov my selling
price which does not leave me much profit. This is way I can do what I
enjoy and provide a quality product that U can enjoy and pass-on from
generation to generation. People that do leather work as a
profession usually take cost of material + hours X’s 3= HIGH RETAIL, (not me).
I take my cost +/- 15% = what you pay Stai-Nu
CUSTOM Design Co, aka, (Bob B). Everything is Hand Made right here in
Dania Beach Florida, U.S.A.….. and YES I was a Military Police
Officer in the United States Army.
I ask you if you are happy with my service &
product, please respond to eBay & maybe even put my eBay address out in
your face book page, with all ov that said, this Old Vet thanks you once again.
FYI, I made my first holster in the year ov
1954…. U do the math.
I, as an ex-cowboy AND as a Leather craftsman,
cannot compete with Chinas’ prices. BUT what I can do that they
don’t do, is that I can AND do make ur purchase
personalized. Everything that I create starts out as a hide of
LEATHER. I make my own patterns and I then trace it, cut it
out. I then do whatever I have to produce a fine quality hand crafted ALL
LEATHER creation that you helped me create. I hand sew whatever needs to
be stitched. What I do is commonly known as "Saddle Stitching" and it
too, is done by hand. Some of my
customers want me to personalize their
order. Personalized work could be anything as
simple as dying (not paint) your order to your choice ov color, or simply
stamping YOUR initials or as expensive as "hand tooling" their order,
(floral, animal or even insect motif).
CUSTOM work sometimes requires me making
a "working" template along with a drawing of the tooling (which
involves hours of work). I then, either email this oak tag replica and the
customer and then they send me their approval at which time I give the customer
a quote on the price. with all of this being said, I then expect the customer
to pay me a 50% NON-REFUNDABLE deposit through my account
with "Pay Pal”.
My initials are BB and my # is 8 (eight) so you
will see my signature on everything that I create: My number is 8 &
by extending the down stroke of the Y in "by",
to dissect the 8 in half, I now have back-to-back "B's". IF
U don’t see my signature, then it’s not an original.