As she lifted the breast collar over her neck, a smile cracked on Donna Ferrenburg’s face.
She had made the collar for her horse, but here she was demonstrating the craftsmanship. The collar was the first leather Ferrenburg tooled, about a year ago.
Since then she’s made a horse’s headstall and picture frames and is now working on chaps for her brother. She wants to make a saddle, but for that the Kimberly woman will need a machine that sews leather. The machines aren’t cheap, she said, so she’s saving her pennies.
Ferrenburg, like other leather craftsmen she knows, uses tooling as a way to express her creativity. For her it is a hobby, but for others, such as Buhl saddlemaker Ron Rose, it’s a profession. Either way, tooling leather is a good way to put their imaginations to use.
“It’s one of the most rewarding things you’ll ever do,” Rose said. “I can’t think of a lot of things you can say that about.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of ”
Ferrenburg has been interested in leather since she saw her dad work on it when she was little.
“I used to go down in the basement when he’d work on a saddle and play with the leather,” she said. “I just always have liked doing things with my hands. I’m retired now, so I decided to start making stuff with leather.”
Ferrenburg pursues a number of other crafts and is an accomplished painter.
“She does all sorts of things,” said her husband, Gary. At Christmas, Ferrenburg’s painting of Santa Claus and his “nice list” hung on the couple’s dining room wall; the list included their grandchildren’s names. Another painting in the basement was of Gary in cowboy gear.
But it is working with leather that Ferrenburg enjoys most,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET, partly because it involves a number of steps: preparing leather, cutting patterns, stitching, decorating.
There’s one drawback with leather,We are professional Plastic mould, though: Mistakes are difficult if not impossible to erase, she said, such as a rivet put in the wrong place. “Leather is unforgiving.”
Twin Falls resident Edwin Egbert starting tooling when he was a young man in the military. He quit for several years but decided not long ago to get back into it.
“I needed a new belt and couldn’t find whatI wanted, so I decided to make my own,” he said.
The 76-year-old now makes wallets, purses, notebooks and nature scenes by carving pictures of wildlife onto leather. He’ll use a wildlife calendar as a pattern, but often adds his own details such as rocks and trees.
“I don’t move as fast as I used to,” said Rose, 61, who’s been making saddles professionally since 1975.
It’s a career the Buhl man has enjoyed, but one that has become increasingly stressful because of a sour economy.
Most of his sales are out of state, he said, though once in a while he’ll make a saddle for an Idahoan. Rose’s saddles start at $3,300.
“They’re not cheap,” he said, adding that many of his clients are attorneys, doctors, property developers and others known for deep pockets.
Rose knows he’ll retire one day. “I’m not going to sell my business, I’m not going to hand it down,” he said.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop. “When I’m done that’ll be the end of the saddles.”
That’s the thing with making leather products, he said: Each item is handcrafted differently than the next. They can’t be 100 percent duplicated.
Despite a rough economy, and a future that is unclear for leather crafting, there are still a good number of people who might want to do it for a living, Rose said. If that’s the case,A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, he recommends an apprenticeship — something Rose never did.
She had made the collar for her horse, but here she was demonstrating the craftsmanship. The collar was the first leather Ferrenburg tooled, about a year ago.
Since then she’s made a horse’s headstall and picture frames and is now working on chaps for her brother. She wants to make a saddle, but for that the Kimberly woman will need a machine that sews leather. The machines aren’t cheap, she said, so she’s saving her pennies.
Ferrenburg, like other leather craftsmen she knows, uses tooling as a way to express her creativity. For her it is a hobby, but for others, such as Buhl saddlemaker Ron Rose, it’s a profession. Either way, tooling leather is a good way to put their imaginations to use.
“It’s one of the most rewarding things you’ll ever do,” Rose said. “I can’t think of a lot of things you can say that about.Husky Injection Mold Systems designs and manufactures a broad range of ”
Ferrenburg has been interested in leather since she saw her dad work on it when she was little.
“I used to go down in the basement when he’d work on a saddle and play with the leather,” she said. “I just always have liked doing things with my hands. I’m retired now, so I decided to start making stuff with leather.”
Ferrenburg pursues a number of other crafts and is an accomplished painter.
“She does all sorts of things,” said her husband, Gary. At Christmas, Ferrenburg’s painting of Santa Claus and his “nice list” hung on the couple’s dining room wall; the list included their grandchildren’s names. Another painting in the basement was of Gary in cowboy gear.
But it is working with leather that Ferrenburg enjoys most,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET, partly because it involves a number of steps: preparing leather, cutting patterns, stitching, decorating.
There’s one drawback with leather,We are professional Plastic mould, though: Mistakes are difficult if not impossible to erase, she said, such as a rivet put in the wrong place. “Leather is unforgiving.”
Twin Falls resident Edwin Egbert starting tooling when he was a young man in the military. He quit for several years but decided not long ago to get back into it.
“I needed a new belt and couldn’t find whatI wanted, so I decided to make my own,” he said.
The 76-year-old now makes wallets, purses, notebooks and nature scenes by carving pictures of wildlife onto leather. He’ll use a wildlife calendar as a pattern, but often adds his own details such as rocks and trees.
“I don’t move as fast as I used to,” said Rose, 61, who’s been making saddles professionally since 1975.
It’s a career the Buhl man has enjoyed, but one that has become increasingly stressful because of a sour economy.
Most of his sales are out of state, he said, though once in a while he’ll make a saddle for an Idahoan. Rose’s saddles start at $3,300.
“They’re not cheap,” he said, adding that many of his clients are attorneys, doctors, property developers and others known for deep pockets.
Rose knows he’ll retire one day. “I’m not going to sell my business, I’m not going to hand it down,” he said.Take a walk on the natural side with stunning and luxurious Floor tiles from The Tile Shop. “When I’m done that’ll be the end of the saddles.”
That’s the thing with making leather products, he said: Each item is handcrafted differently than the next. They can’t be 100 percent duplicated.
Despite a rough economy, and a future that is unclear for leather crafting, there are still a good number of people who might want to do it for a living, Rose said. If that’s the case,A mold or molds is a hollowed-out block that is filled with a liquid like plastic, he recommends an apprenticeship — something Rose never did.
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