leather making

yeah it's easy enough . I use to use the brass and nickel plated rivets but had a few rivets come loose so I went to the copper burl type . [ much stronger ] I have found that finding a good source for leather is the trick . my feed supplier would make trips to Laredo and buy the Mexican leather products and me having my tax number I could buy from him wholesale . point is I could buy finished 1'' sets of good heavy horse rains cheaper than I could buy, cut and finish out leather from tandy or weaver . it's the only way to go . but I priced some rains at tsc yesterday [ because I'm out ] and they wanted 40 dollars for a set [ WAY TOO MUCH ] I'm used to paying around 13 dollars for about 14 feet of finished rain leather . paying that much a tsc or anywhere else and you might as well go buy collars all ready made . it's all about the pennies lol they add up !!!