Company:
Bogg's Leather
Name:
Scott Babb
Website:
http://stores.ebay.com/BOGGS-HANDCRAFTED-LEATHER-GOODS
What is your specialty?:
Archery Equipment and other leather items.
"I was a job supervisor for Curtain
Wall for 23 years, installing glass on
skyscrapers and military
installations. I made great money, but
I didn't get to spend as much time
with my kids as I wanted. I was
involved in Mountain Man Rendezvous,
and I bought a black powder ball bag
on EBay about 4 years ago. It was
junk. After I pitched it, I made my
own. It was then I started doing
leather work. I had never worked a
piece of leather before. Now (4 years
later) I work leather full time: from
4 in the morning until 4 or 5 in the
afternoon. I work at home in my shop,
so I get to spend more time with my
two youngest children, Kingston and
Jennifer. I also have three older
sons."
"Before I bought my
Boss 1-1/2 years ago, I sewed
everything by hand. When I bought the
Boss, I was a complete novice with a
sewing machine. The first night I had
it, I was sewing my first piece. After
about a week of playing with it, I had
it all figured out. It has increased
my output and the quality of my work
dramatically. The ability to place a
stitch exactly where it needs to be on
tight corners and odd angles render
this stitcher an absolute must in my
leather shop. I use this machine every
day. I have just about every accessory
for the machine, which allows me to
work with the thinnest leather to the
thickest napped furs and everything
in-between. The only accessory I don't
use very much is the Material Guide. I
also built my own table for the
machine, with a recessed mount on the
table."
Scott has recently had
a brush with fame. Through a chance
connection, Scott is making a custom
quiver for non other than "The Nuge"
(Ted Nugent!). Mr. Nugent hunts black
coyote every year in Scott's area, and
he is going to stop by personally to
pick it up. Scott has named it "Spirit
of the Wild," which is a fitting name
for Ted's quiver.
Scott makes
civil war reenactment pieces, and has
been an avid black powder hunter since
he was very young. He once killed a
bear with a .58 caliber Flintlock. He
has made quivers out of all different
kinds of leathers and materials. A
lady from Idaho sent him the rib bones
from her first deer, which Scott made
into a quiver.
Scott is
mechanically minded and good with his
hands. He is currently developing a
new design for a quiver, but didn't
want to give up his secrets. He calls
the new series "Ultimate Hunter," and
should be available soon.
Scott sells most of his wares on EBay.
He is amazed at all the different
countries he has shipped his quivers.
He used to keep a map with thumbtacks,
"but now I can't keep up with them."
He also sells at Mountain Man
Rendezvous, sometimes from his front
porch. "There is a festival every year
in our town, and I can hang my leather
goods from the front porch and people
stop by. I'm usually sold out by the
end of the weekend."
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