Our Hand Tooled Leather Journals are made with high quality leather. We hand bound all our journals and use high quality all cotton paper that is also acid free. Choose a hand tooled design and you also have your choice of closure. Either standard, a strap, snap or our elegant belt. Makes a stunning gift or a lifetime keepsake. Let us help you! Call us…our artists will personally assist you to ensure your new Hand tooled leather small journal is exactly the hand tooled leather product of your dreams. Every hand tooled leather product from Kerry's Custom Leather offers the following options: 1. Personalization & Customization: Kerry's Custom Leather offers hand tooled personalization of all of our handmade leather accessories with your name or personal motto. We have a variety of lettering styles and fonts for you to choose from. View standard lettering styles and fonts (opens in new window) >> 2. Artwork/Design Customization: If you would like artwork on your covers, please contact Kerry's Custom Leather to discuss your custom design or check out our previous work to see some of the designs we have available (more designs are added frequently). 3. Leather color: Our leather supplier supplies us with superior quality domestic 4-5 ounce (cow) leather hides that accept color exceptionally well (so that we can stain or dye the hide by request). This allows us to offer a wide range of colors, or custom colors (by request). The leather colors listed in our options are our "standard" colors. However, if you would like a color not listed below, simply contact us, as we can dye a leather hide to match most color request
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Welcome to Kerry’s Custom Leather! My name is Kerry Phipps and I am the lead artist for Kerry’s Custom Leather. I am from a family of custom leather crafters who have been producing the finest quality, custom designed, hand tooled, and completely handmade custom leather products since the early 1950′s. Everything we create is custom designed to your exact specifications. Once we understand your order, we hand cut the leather from the hide, hand tool, hand dye, and hand sew your order, there is never a machine involved in the creation of your hand tooled leather items. Every item is handmade in the Midwest USA by our master artisans. We strive to create the perfect gift or product for you, got a significant other who is hard to buy for, how about a custom daytimer which screams it’s mine. Since each of our products is hand tooled, hand carved, and hand sewn for each client, we have included samples of our work in these pages to show the quality, but if you dont see what you want don’t hesitate top call or write an email, I am sure we can help. Since all of our work is custom just for you, and of the finest handmade quality, our work is not inexpensive, instead, it is designed to last 5-10 times longer than the less expensive substitutes. So if you are looking for the highest quality handmade leather products available send us an email.
Matthew Fritchey
For Custom Leather Coast Guard Chief Charge BookThe book came out better than expected Very happy with the results and glad I found her to male my book. A great quality finish that will be passed as a heirloom.
Allen Valla
For Custom Leather Desk PadAll good
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For Leather Executive PlannerWhat a lovely item! It was a pleasure to hear the updates on the process and see the item come together. My colleague will just love it. Thank you for making this so special!
Damion Michaels
For Custom Leather Desk PadThe final product is fantastic. Kerry was super communicative. It all started with Kerry graciously sending me samples of dyes and threads. Then communicated every single step of the process as the desk pad was being made and shipped - to include pictures. I was super picky because the desk pad was going on a vintage desk and Kerry nailed it. Any leather goods you want, I would only use Kerry's Custom Leather. The customer service was absolutely fantastic. I can't decide which is better - the product or the service. Coupled together, I would say this is the best experience I have ever had ordering something over the internet and if this is indicative of the way all of the makers are on CustomMade, then I will say that I am a customer forever. Thanks again Kerry.
Sandra Matheus
For Custom Leather Checkbook Cover With God Bless America DesignKerry's Custom Leather made a checkbook cover complete with a custom logo that was hand carved in the leather. The artwork was perfectly executed and the checkbook cover is very sturdy. The process was shared with me along the way. It was quite interesting seeing the various stages in the production process. I highly recommend Kerry's Custom Leather as his products make gifts that will be cherished for a very long time.
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