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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on December 5, 2014 at 7:22

John,

We usually buy from Tandy but only because we can go in and hand pick what we want.  Now that we wont have one near I will be interested to see what shows up in this discussion

Permalink Reply by John w schmidt on December 5, 2014 at 9:18

The problem is Weavers is a wholesale place and you need a tax number to buy from them. I have that but they demand you buy 1200.00 worth of stuff a year now since Paul Weaverstepped down as
Pres. That was fine too before my neck fusions when I made and sold hundreds of ARMGUARDS,back quivers,gun slings,custom holsters etc. Now I can't do that so I'll be banned from them after the end of the year. Maybe we should all buy as a group? :)

KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Carl Rechsteiner on December 6, 2014 at 5:26

Yeah new management is going to run off a lot of their smaller buy customers. Wonder how that will affect their long term employment. May all be due to unaffordable health care.

I don't buy enough per year to hang with them either, plus the quality I got from them last time required returning two sides. Don't have time to deal with reject/returns.

Been hand selecting at Tandy lately (have a local manager friend that lets me know when the better stuff is in). A bit of a drive but worth it. My buddy RLo does a lot of leather work and gets his from some guy up the east coast. I'll check with him on his source.