Tandy Leather has lost its reputation ever since they dropped their lifetime warranty on their tools. I understand why they dropped their warranty because they sell crap tools. As far as pricking irons, I replaced my pricking irons with Sinabroks. These irons are meant to penetrate all the through the layers of leather. You are wrong if you think they are only made to mark where you punch, that doesn't make any sense. I use a diamond awl when stitching to ensure the hole completely penetrated the back side so the needles good through. One thing Tandy gets wrong is the quality control of their tools. Most tooling is not sharp, sometimes even unsharpened. By the way I've been a leather worker for almost 50 years.
@invictusbp1prop143
4 күн бұрын
I’ve got a set of those stitching chisels too. They’re damn near all I use. I bought another set in a different spacing but some lowlife stole them out of the shipping package. Screw it. I’ll just use one set. Oh, btw, they may benefit from a light sanding to smooth out the tines so they slide thru the leather without hanging up, and touch up the tips if they need to be a bit sharper. Maybe plan on a touch up every now n then. But they’re great. I’d how anything fancier or more expensive could do a better job of making little holes in leather.
@ImNotCrazy44
25 күн бұрын
The tool is fine...it broke from abuse. Pricking irons are just meant to mark holes to finish piercing with an awl...for punching completely through leather, you need stitching chisels. Pricking irons and stitching chisels look very similar but are made from different metals with different heat treatments. Pricking irons are harder and large impacts can destroy them. Stitching chisels are a little softer and more impact resistant.
@kayrhea8589
25 күн бұрын
Where else can you buy from?
@Micbop
26 күн бұрын
If its made in China does not mean it bad, same as Taiwan use to make crap! The best Chinese stuff you have to really dig for & you will find that its mainly marketed at Chinese not the west, now China is also wanting to Change this just like Taiwan did. I have gotten seriously so awsome leather tools recently from China they not cheap but they really good. China can make you a something for $10 or they can make you something for £250 that looks the same but last you a lift time.
@ThebigGametDad
Ай бұрын
lol those leather tools at like $23 AUD one etsy
@TPMAKHOME
Ай бұрын
I was in Tandy in Nashville TN lately and asked the sales guy about purchasing a small electric burnisher/sander and the sales guy told me that the $200 burnisher in their store can be bought from TEMU for $85 and it is the same unit. The edgers looked just like the Chinese ones I have at home already with the same crappy engravings on them. The leather veg tan leather had so many marks on the hide I just did not get any. I will take my chances online; the leather could not look any worse than that. I think their target customer is a newbie to leather work, so they just take advantage of them.
@WelcometheOrzanos
Ай бұрын
@tandyleather what was the order no. for this order of Tandy Leather Tools. As a shareholder I believe you should get a new tool no questions asked and a free set to give to a friend. That is a blatant defect
@raykiii
Ай бұрын
Have you tried Weaver Leather? I really like them.
@tommygarcia7406
Ай бұрын
cheaply made, sold high. I use Tandy products along with Frog jelly leather products.
@jeffallen3382
2 ай бұрын
You're using these wrong! These are NOT made to punch all the way through the leather. "Pricking Irons" are just make to "prick" the leather and then an awl is used to finish the hole as you are stitching! Who ever told you that in China is wrong!
@maynardconde.2954
3 ай бұрын
All tools I bought from Tandy Leather are very useful and still in use😮
@MIKEMAKESTHINGS
3 ай бұрын
Tandy is way overpriced.
@R0ckerb0y
3 ай бұрын
I just had a problem with some beginners tools I bought from Tandy. I picked up 5 sets of punches and scissors etc. several of them broke immediately when my students began to use them. I emailed pictures to my local Tandy store (I had opened a ticket with the national Tandy service center who routed me) and the store manager just stuck a $60 gift card in the mail for me. I didn’t even have to show them my receipt. Just the pictures of my broken items. They may fail in places, but so far in my experience they stood behind their products.
@user-jo5fz8iw3b
4 ай бұрын
THANK YOU FOR SHARING NICK, IM NEW TO LEATHER CRAFTING SOOO I SUPPORT YOU AND STAND BEHIND YOU AND I WILL NOT BUY ANTHING FROM TANDY LEATHER !!
@MrAussiejuice
5 ай бұрын
Yes Tandy are definitely a ripoff, saying that many of by tools are Tandy. Tandy no longer have a branch in my country so longer support Tandy and look for much better options when available.
@Nontacticalboy
5 ай бұрын
Buy from china, most of them are made there, unless you buy from small US boutique brands.
@shoonsserendipity
5 ай бұрын
I do have a nice knife like that but after all knives made in Japan are much better than those made in USA.
@Jamie-k7e7e
6 ай бұрын
I just received a Tandy skiving knife, and it is crap! It is not sharp and The handle does not fit well at all! when pushing on the handle, you can see it move towards the metal. I can actually get a fingernail between the handle and the blade, I will never buy from Tandy again! Corporate greed sucks
@coryowen4922
6 ай бұрын
I think the metal in the replacement has temper markings to make it less brittle. It’s done with steel stamps. I would want mine to have those markings
@peaceofleather
6 ай бұрын
Tandy is the Starbucks of leather. I will not spend money on their website. Tandy is full of it. Some local folks in the stores are nice and knowledgeable but that's the end of anything resembling customer service.
@tacticalskiffs8134
6 ай бұрын
I invested in a saddle sewing machine, so most of my leather working now goes that way. But for years I had been looking for those English style irons with the slant chisel tips that create such a beautiful stitching lines. Maybe 10 years ago, I was in Tandy, and while I no longer wanted them, they had a whole set of those chisels, different spacings and chisel counts. They were bagged up and sold off the remainder table. I bought one of the sets, but I have yet to upack them from their bags. I guess maybe there were problems...
@tacticalskiffs8134
6 ай бұрын
It is the nature of the failure. I don't care if he pounded it into mild steel, there is no world where it should shear off a massive hunk of steel like that. Not sure where we are with China margins at this point. One of the reasons why they originally took over the world was that say there was a company that sold $200 Bowie knives from China. Knives that were pretty good, and even got singled out as an edge geometry example by ABS smiths. People would complain, and say stuff like "I can make a knife they could sell, thinking they were up against a normal 20-50% margin. But in reality, the margin could be as high as 95%. So those agile first movers who when to Taiwan, or China could get these incredible deals, and good quality, and they could advertise the hell out of stuff, and replace knives that were used as crowbars, or whatever, because the margins were so ridiculous. And overall, they could move a whole new group of buyers into custom like knives. I mean, who actually needs a Bowie knife? But with these kinds of deal you could sell bowie knives to people who don't need them, and aren't wiling to pay what they actually cost to make. I don't know what China margins typically are today, but Tandy probably should be getting a good enough deal that they can eat the cost of replacing product at the expected failure rates, and still make a stack of dough. Good customer service isn't just replacing crap, it is getting stuff that doesn't need replacement in the first place. And if you can do it at slave labour margins, you have a business model that works.
@RI0T999
6 ай бұрын
Alibaba and AliExpress are exactly where most of these us companies get their products. Just like anything else, there are good manufacturers in China, and bad. I just purchased brass rivets and they are exactly like the ones I purchased from a us company, down to the packaging, but the us was over four times more expensive. YMMV
@wingednomad8423
7 ай бұрын
Ive found that etsy is a really good source for tools. I bought a really nice swivel knife on there.
@КонстантинСенченко-ы3о
7 ай бұрын
Смотрю ты стреляешь с левой руки , я тоже только не нашëл карабин леворукий, купил обычный чизет 557 , вот хочу оптику.
@КонстантинСенченко-ы3о
7 ай бұрын
Привет его можно использовать как загонный прицел?
@6Sally5
7 ай бұрын
I can only afford the Workshop system right now, but hope to upgrade someday. BTW…your knives are stunning! Beautiful craftsmanship.
@6Sally5
7 ай бұрын
What a great gathering of hunting friends and enjoying time together and the fruits of their labor! We are not so different….any hunter from Texas would fit into this group very well, and vice-versa.
@leonardsmith2198
7 ай бұрын
Tandy gets you on shipping too.
@chrisfournier6144
7 ай бұрын
I’m by no means an experienced leather worker. I have been to Tandy a few times and each time they were helpful, their tools have performed well and their leather deals were good to great.
@kenlewis1775
7 ай бұрын
Pricking irons and stitching chisels are different. Lesson learned.
@piecetoyou8285
8 ай бұрын
Go and buy old chisels and make your own stuff, heat the steal and quench re heat then temper heat again to go one step further , Going from the handle allow the heat to creep toward the other end but don`t allow the heat to creep to far up the sharp ends, only about 3 to 4 mm up, allow to cool, over night, You will have so far up the spikes like brittle but not brittle to where they break easy and further up will be slightly softer, taking the shock, These will work out so cheep but great steel , no more name brand costly priced crap, I never buy modern tools always vintage and resharpen and clean up, replace handles if no good, Never complain always great steel especially from the makers who used to be good quality,nothing like to days stuff,
@braddobson2060
8 ай бұрын
I agree with tardy it's unfortunate that you can make a vidio like this
@oldguy3525
8 ай бұрын
Made in China, enough said.
@thinking-monkey
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info. Based on the poor customer experience Tandy Leather gave you, I will never buy a product from them. Never. Companies like that can only understand one thing: money. If enough people boycott their product, you'll see an amazing improvement in their customer service.
@КонстантинХаныков-е8ш
8 ай бұрын
Hi. Do you drive a Lada niva? That's cool.
@55418und
8 ай бұрын
Weaver is very good.
@55418und
8 ай бұрын
Tread cautiously with this vendor. My advise. Shop Japanese craftsmanship.
@LambertFick
8 ай бұрын
I'm no expert on leather tools, but these type of irons are not worth much as punching irons regardless how good the punching surface is prepared. V shaped between points, they are always going to try to wedge open.
@sinpac6161
8 ай бұрын
I have read through alot of comments here and I guess many people don't know or understand what a pricking iron is suppose to be use for. Simply look up the definition of pricking. Trust me I have had my dealings with tandy. Tandy has the same business as Sears Craftman. Tandy does not make anything. they simply contact a manufacture that gives them the cheapest price to manufacture a tool, then they slap their name on it. Right after world war 2 there were a lot of out of work machinists, tandy hired them to make leather tools. for the most part they were hand made on machine. even the knurling. So the last of the U.S.A. craftools that were made were stamped craftool U.S.A. After that is what I explained above. 95% of my craftools are pre 1960. the other 5% are Barry King tools out of Montana. I have a few from a guy from the Czech Republic who makes kick @ss leather stamps. In parting I will point out if you search google you will find many overseas companies make tandy tools.
@josevillanueva5061
8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with this company. I've always felt they sold & overpriced their cheap tools. I just wish MORE leather workers/hobbyist watched this video!
@carrollshirkey6276
8 ай бұрын
Where IS the best place to buy REAL QUALITY leather tools? Is there such a place where you can buy quality without going bankrupt?
@ataarjomand
8 ай бұрын
Tandy is for children not serious people
@TallyhoScreams
8 ай бұрын
Pricking irons are to make marks not punch through. The old “pricking irons” you show are called stitching chisels which ARE made for punching holes. So technically you did misuse them 😅
@KeithAdams-wd4nx
9 ай бұрын
I will agree that Tandy sells some cheap stuff for beginners. A bunch of other leather supply stores have plenty of stuff that is not awesome either for beginners. I am not affiliated with Tandy in any way. They also have lots of awesome stuff. I use it every day. I think leather craft would be a lost art if it was not for Tandy. Where I am located at, it is the only leather goods store for hundreds of miles. I can actually put my hands on something before I buy it. Anyone that is promoting this craft is awesome in my opinion. There Tandy Pro edgers are super awesome as well as lots of other stuff. Tanners bond clear cement is awesome. I have a Craftool stamp set that was made before 1963. A lot of those tools are sought after and reproduced today. I dont want anyone mad but I just cant see how everyone keeps looking down on Tandy. Dont expect the cashier to be a professional world renowned leather worker. I think Tandy is still great.
@guzzirob
7 ай бұрын
I'm a hobbyist leather crafter. I've bought many tools from Tandy and found them to be ok for my use. What I do most appreciate about Tandy, at least in my town (Independence, MO) is how very helpful all the employees have been. They give free lessons there and will happily answers all your questions as well as give you friendly advise and tips. As I get more experience I might decide to upgrade to higher grade tools. I think their leather selection is pretty decent. They have a lot of different skins and choices as well as a lot of leather parts and supplies.
@SacredHeart0520
9 ай бұрын
Why in the hell would you. Buy 2 tools to do the work of one tool Is there a need for a pricking iron? When you can clearly. Use a chisel to do the job . What is the benefit of using a pricking motion. And. It a. Chisel
@danpost4755
9 ай бұрын
I am sorry to hear that. You may have done so by now, but please look into Buckle Guy Leather Supplies and their Corter Leather line of tools. Excellent.
@shubbyduck
9 ай бұрын
You are not using a proper punching pad that is a cutting mat not meant to punch on
@p4our587
9 ай бұрын
Tandy used to try & sell me stuff that was moving slow. When i first started working with leather, i had watched so many videos about making bags, wallets, card holders… this does not make you anywhere near a person that works with leather… like… AT ALL! Long way from calling yourself that! … but as far as tools? Equipment? I had that stuff down. I also realized that certain things are better to start off with before you start getting expensice tools. … but every time i went up there, I'd have to learn where stuff was located, so… for example I'd need thread. I knew what i needed… but they'd always try to get me the stuff nobody was buying. Wide bevelers, weird shaped french skivers, and ALWAYS… some thick ass thread! Like… 1.5 of THE SAME SPOOL THAT WAS THERE FOR A YEAR! (little exaggeration… but i bet they threw the thing away?) I learned that they weren't a REAL friendly place… but options weren't a-plenty… so I'd go back with caution. They sure are the way you described!
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