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Roo skin - 4/6/2008 7:43:18 PM

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I'm curious as to whether anyone can point me in the direction of a supplier of kangaroo leather.

Preferably not too pricey. I'm going to start making whips in the next few months-and this stuff is the absolute best for it. My local supplier no longer carries it.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

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RE: Roo skin - 4/6/2008 10:03:53 PM

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Isnt there a supply issue right now? Due to a drought or something and you aren't allowed to shoot as many red kangaroo as you want anymore. I could be wrong.

Anyhow, good luck finding a supplier, the more kink oriented whip makers the better off we are I say.

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RE: Roo skin - 4/6/2008 10:27:22 PM

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I did find one local supplier who's prices seem all right finally. About the same as what I used to pay the other one.

As far as supply issues, I hadnt heard anything. Calfskin will do for handles and lanyards in a pinch. I sold quite a few floggers in the seattle area years back-they were sort of like Heartwoods. Only I did the balancing with cast counterwieghts set at the very back of the butt. I didn't like the heavy feel of the way she did hers-with lead shot in the handles.

I like having control and not wearing my ass out.

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RE: Roo skin - 4/6/2008 11:42:14 PM

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Can I be a test dummy?

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RE: Roo skin - 4/7/2008 4:24:48 AM

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Isnt there a supply issue right now? Due to a drought or something and you aren't allowed to shoot as many red kangaroo as you want anymore. I could be wrong.

The drought in Australia and limits on culling of Kangaroos has casued the price of roo hide to increase and the supply to diminish in the past 2-3 years. Here's a quote from one of the larger suppliers of roo hide..

"Australia’s kangaroo leather industry is worth about $80million a year, but of the leather exported, only about 15 per cent is sold as fully processed hides. The industry is also limited by strict quotas applied to annual kangaroo harvests, which in 2007 totalled about 3.2 million animals."

“It’s a limitation on a resource,” says Graham Packer. “So we try to maximize our take and we have a capacity here to do probably half a million square feet per month of leather and that’s what we work towards.

“The cost of the raw material has gone up considerably, so it is very difficult to maintain the growth that we had perhaps in the '80s. We are maintaining some small growth now, but it’s all about finding new markets –maintaining the old markets and finding those new markets.”

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