This leather saddle bag is the perfect size to stow the contents of your pockets or a tube repair kit in a stylish, hand-tooled, and hand-stitched box. Shown with spare tire and multi-tool for scale (not included). Hand-finished, hand-stitched thick and stiff vegetable-tanned leather attaches to your bike with a buckle closure and an additional leather twine to tie around the seat post. Stays shut with a "common sense" hardware closure, and contents held secure with envelope flaps that fold into the bag. The leather in the bag is made with USA-made unfinished tanned leather from a local company that I finished with a combination process including Walnut Studiolo's weatherproofing dressing. The leather pictured here is dark brown. COLORS: Natural, Honey, Dark Brown, Black MATERIALS: Vegetable-tanned leather, nickel-plated steel hardware DIMENSIONS: 5" x 3" x 2.5" MONOGRAMMING: Yes! This item can be monogrammed with up to 8 characters. If you'd like a monogram, please also purchase this monogram listing. EACH ITEM IS MADE TO ORDER with love in my workshop in Portland, Oregon. INTERNATIONAL orders, please note: our shipping and handling does not include your country's import taxes or VATs.
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Hi, I'm Geoffrey Franklin. I'm an 8th generation Oregonian, born and raised in Beaverton and Weston, Oregon. I graduated from the University of Oregon Architecture School. I run Walnut Studiolo with my wife, Valerie. I design and craft all the products in my workshop, and Valerie runs the business side.
Bicycle accessories are my core focus but I love good design, as an architecture student, and I loved learning how to work leather as a medium. Eventually I also started enjoying the juxtaposition of leather and wood. In these products, I'm expressing my love for good design, architectural concepts, and natural materials in products that I would want to use myself…and I do use myself. I field-test all my products until I'm comfortable with them before listing them on our shop.
My goal is to make high-quality, beautiful, durable, and most of all functional solutions to everyday problems. Thank you for buying small and handmade. I put my heart in everything I make.
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