rmiller wrote:Triple C leather has great people to deal with also, and a very good, high quality product. They will send out samples as well- they have several options in thickness, width, and color. My understanding is that they custom cut the leather to customer specifications. Triple C actually has a bit better price on bulk than Tanners, and they come highly recommended from a few members of the forum.
I just received my first order from Triple C today, and I have to say that the quality and consistency of their rawhide products are absolutely terrific! They do prefer minimum order quantities of 100 laces, but there is a real price savings when compared to Tanner's laces (in this case, about $30-40 less!).
For the record, I'm a huge fan of Tanner's products. However, I also need to stock rawhide widths in sizes narrower than 3/16", because there are times when 3/16" wide lacing is just too wide. I had been buying spools of 5/32" wide tan (50') and 1/8" wide chocolate (25yd) from Tandy Leather, but I was finding that Tandy's leather quality and consistency were just terrible, especially when comparing their stuff to Tanner's products. The difference in quality between the two suppliers was like night and day. I had found great variances in the past with the color, thickness and stiffness of Tandy's products as well, sometimes even on the very same spool! There were stretches of rawhide that I ended up cutting off and throwing away, because it just wasn't usable. I also ran into problems with color inconsistency on their "chocolate" rawhide from one order to the next. When I called them to complain about this, I was told that they had changed suppliers and that there was nothing they could do. In other words, take it or leave it. Well, I felt that was an unacceptable answer, so I immediately started looking for other suppliers. RMiller in an earlier post had recommended Triple C as an option, and because of that, they're now my new supplier of quality products in widths under 3/16". Goodbye Tandy Leather! In addition to a product that is of very high quality and is very consistent in color and thickness, the price and delivery were also excellent. With shipping and handling charges included, the price came out to about $1.05 per 72" length of rawhide. Excellent pricing and very nice people to deal with as well. I'm completely sold. I highly recommend Triple C for all of your rawhide lacing needs. Thank you RMiller, and other Forum members for suggesting Triple C, your input was a big help, and I really appreciate it.
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