About Theobald Leather

Butler County Leathercraft came about nearly by accident. In 2005, I
was busily making knives and a few sheaths for them. My son had just
returned from Daytona after graduating from AMI, and was working part
time for Sucker Punch Sallys in Harrison, Ohio. When he saw the sheaths,
he was determined that I make a seat for him for his bike that he was
building at Sucker Punch. It took four tries but I finally had one that I
was pleased with, and that my son liked also. It was a "King of Hearts"
that reproduced his tattoo. He liked the seat enough that he took it to
work and showed it to Jeff Cochran, one of the founders of Sucker Punch
Sallys. Within the hour I had an order for my first seat for a bike being
shown at the V-Twin Expo in Cincinnati, Ohio. Well, that was almost
three years and two hundred seats ago.

I never intended to become a seat maker, but look at me now! My son
works with me cutting the leather and preparing all the seat pans. We
will do another hundred seats in 2008. That is a pretty ambitious
number! An average seat takes between twenty and thirty hours and
a show quality seat may take upwards of 60 hours or more to
complete.

Please browse through the gallery and feel free to contact me about
a custom seat for your special ride. Meanwhile, I'm hard at work on a
seat for the 2008 IFoLG show to be held in Columbus, Ohio this year.
Thanks for visiting,
Dave Theobald