Today's public service announcement is regarding the care and feeding of zippers! Whether it is a Stickman Leather bag, or any other bag - or suitcase - you own and love if you take care of it and use it properly you can save your zippers! How do you save your zippers? By carrying the appropriate amount of stuff (and weight) in your bag!
Want to know the surest way to blow out a zipper? The surest way is to consistently over-stuff your bag.If you regularly over-stuff a bag, it places stress on the zipper and/or things get caught in the zipper.
To replace a zipper typically requires replacing the entire panel on which the zipper is sewn. And, in some bags, the way it is constructed prevents any type of repair.
A good rule of thumb is this: if you always have to force the zipper to close around all the stuff in your bag, it's time for a larger bag!
End of public service announcement. Thanks for listening!
Showing posts with label leather bags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leather bags. Show all posts
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Let's Get Social!
FACEBOOK
We love to post pictures of you with your bags on our Facebook page. Feel free to share your pictures with us, too!
We also post in the morning on our Facebook page if we are not going to be at the Pike Place Market for the day. Typically, we're there every day of the week but, things happen. We recently had an elevator down (couldn't get our merchandise upstairs) and a fire under the viaduct (had to close early!) Checking our feed can (hopefully) save you from a drive to Seattle if we aren't there.
INSTAGRAM
Our new items and behind the scenes photos can be found on Instagram. Once in a while, we post pictures of our shop dogs! Ace the Husky is now 6 months old and getting bigger by the day! Or, we'll follow the adventures of the birds that build a nest right outside our shop in the woods! Usually Instagram is the first place to see a new item or our new colors!
LINKS
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StickmanLeather/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stickmanleather/
Online store: https://squareup.com/store/stickmanleather
We love to post pictures of you with your bags on our Facebook page. Feel free to share your pictures with us, too!
We also post in the morning on our Facebook page if we are not going to be at the Pike Place Market for the day. Typically, we're there every day of the week but, things happen. We recently had an elevator down (couldn't get our merchandise upstairs) and a fire under the viaduct (had to close early!) Checking our feed can (hopefully) save you from a drive to Seattle if we aren't there.
Our new items and behind the scenes photos can be found on Instagram. Once in a while, we post pictures of our shop dogs! Ace the Husky is now 6 months old and getting bigger by the day! Or, we'll follow the adventures of the birds that build a nest right outside our shop in the woods! Usually Instagram is the first place to see a new item or our new colors!
LINKS
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StickmanLeather/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stickmanleather/
Online store: https://squareup.com/store/stickmanleather
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Online Store
I'm happy to announce that new for 2017 I have an online store. You can access my online store at:
Check back regularly! As always, my products can also be found nearly every day of the year at Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
HAPPY 2016!
Happy 2016 to everyone! I was out in the shop bright and early on January 2nd, making bags, that's what I do.
As always, change is inevitable.
- I'm losing my shop assistant, Hillary, in April as she's going off to new adventures. I will be sad to see her go but happy for her, she's been a delight to work with.
- Postal rates have gone up, which means it'll cost you a dollar or two more if you order a bag and have it shipped.
- I'm pleased with the new designs that I put out late last year, the Tahoma Bag and the Summit Bag. (Eventually, I'll have photos on this website, but for now you can see them on my Facebook page!) I think these bags are going to be permanent parts of the line in 2016.
- I'm pleased that I am continuing my relationship with Seidel tanning out of Wisconsin they supply me with my custom color -Bark Passport- which is a deep, rich brown.
I hope that 2016 finds all of my amazing customers happy and well!
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Top 3 Must-Haves in a Great Leather Bag
1. Top grain/full grain leather.
A quality bag is made of the best leather, drum dyed so the color won't bleed.
Some manufactured bags are made of leather scraps in a process similar to creating particle board. Honestly, one way to tell is price. If you're out shopping and a leather bag is VERY inexpensive, the leather is either urine-tanned (as gross as it sounds) or made of urethane-coated leather scraps.
2. Nylon Thread
Any other type of thread will either rot or break.
3. Solid cast hardware.
Check for seams. If a buckle or ring has a seam then it will pull apart with use.
For a later post, I'll talk about bags that are pieced together - tip, a bag is more durable, the fewer pieces it is made with! If your strap isn't one continuous piece, it's a dead giveaway.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
One Guy
I'm one guy, making bags. I always say I'm a "work-at-home" Dad because I'm home with my two kids while my wife is working "offsite"! When they were babies, half the shop was set up as a play yard so they could do their thing while I built bags.
It is summer now and the kids are at home ALL day. They are too big now to put in a play yard in my shop. So, if I'm not so fast at answering emails, that's the reason why.
It is ALWAYS best to call me, anyway!
It is summer now and the kids are at home ALL day. They are too big now to put in a play yard in my shop. So, if I'm not so fast at answering emails, that's the reason why.
It is ALWAYS best to call me, anyway!
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