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ABOUT STANDING BEAR'S TRADING POST

Standing Bears Trading Post - Tandy Leather Factory - Hide Crafter Leather Authorized Dealer
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7624 Tampa Ave. Reseda, Ca. 91335 818 342-9120 HOURS: Mon. Thru Sat. 10am - 6pm (1PM - 9PM ET)

Who We are - How We got Started - About Our Suppliers - Pricing - Ordering - Returns

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Who We Are - About Us

Standing Bear's Trading Post is
a Leathercraft & Native American Supply store in Southern California.
The beginning leathercraft enthusiast as well as professional leathercrafters can use the leather craft products we carry. The leather supplies we sell are used by and sold to leather craft hobbyists, wholesale businesses, manufactures of custom leather items, institutions and many youth organizations such as the Scouts, YMCA, churches, schools, and camps.

Our American Indian arts & craft supplies, which include leather, seed beads,
bone and horn hairpipe, Native themed craft kits, feathers, books and other instructional material provide the Native American community, Scouts, members of the Order of the Arrow and many others with Native American craft supplies.
We also have suppliers for items geared for the buckskinner, mountain men,
reenactors, and those that attend the Renaissance Pleasure Faire

If you have a resale number we gladly offer wholesale pricing on your orders through our store. There is no club to join in order to get wholesale pricing on orders without a resale number as we offer wholesale pricing on bulk orders of items that can be purchased from us.

Our customers find us via the Internet or phone books under leather
when they are looking for leathercraft supplies or leather for a project they are working on, but a bigger part of our business comes from customer referrals...customers sharing with others.

Our mission is to provide quality items and customer service second to none.

Because we have many different suppliers and wanting to be able to provide
up to date information on pricing and inventory that we are able to get from our suppliers we do not currently have a catalog for the items that we carry.

Price - Ordering Info - Return Policy

In an attempt to better serve our customers,
Standing Bear's Trading Post conducts all orders via phone and e-mail correspondence and at our store front located in Reseda, CA.

Due to the ever changing prices from our suppliers, so that you can get accurate pricing before ordering we do not currently list pricing on the website.
For pricing information, questions about our products or to order, please e-mail us at inquiry@sbearstradingpost.com or Call us at 818-342-9120
Monday Through Saturday 10am - 6pm
(1PM - 9PM Eastern Time)

Our Mission is to enhance our customer's lives by bringing them unique products
while providing customer service that is second to none.
We hope to be the preferred supplier for leathercrafters nationwide
by being able to offer a vast selection of quality leathercraft products
for retail and wholesale customers at affordable prices.

How We Got Started as a Wholesale & Retail Leather Craft and Native American Craft Supply Store in Southern California

On April 1st, 1999, Standing Bear, a Spiritual Elder of the Onondaga Peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy, former owner of Standing Bear's Habitat,
(a Native American Museum displaying artifacts and providing a place for children to learn about Native Americans first Hand.) opened Standing Bear's Trading Post

He was known as William Kimmey or Bill Kimmey
to the Southern California scouts and beading community.

He began teaching Beading Classes at Tandy Leather's Reseda retail store in 1993
to adults wanting to learn how to do Native American Beadwork

In January 1999;
Tandy Leather Company announced that they were closing
all of their over 100 retail stores including the Reseda Tandy Leather location
where he was teaching.

Shortly after the announcement was made,
the leathercrafters, beading students, Youth groups & everyday
retail and wholesale customers began to question
what they would do to meet their needs at a retail location
rather than only the mail order that Tandy Leather Company was offering.
From these questions and concerns, Standing Bear's Trading Post was born.

Tandy Leather's Reseda Location closed on March 13th 1999.
On April 1st 1999 Standing Bear's Trading Post opened.

On Sunday, June 11th,
Standing Bear, a Spiritual Elder of the Onondaga Peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy, former owner of Standing Bear's Habitat, founder and original
owner of Standing Bear's Trading Post passed away in Minnesota.

If you would like to sign his obituary visitation book, it can be found at:
Legacy.com William Standing Bear Kimmey Obituary Condolence book

IN LOVING MEMORY of William Standing Bear Kimmey
March 19, 1926 - June 11th 2006

Above Photo Courtesy of Ken Lubas – www.artbeyondcontrol.com

Standing Bear was very loved and will be greatly missed,
Please continue to support us in our quest to keep
HIS store, HIS dream alive!

We will remain open, regular days and hours!
Standing Bear's Trading Post under the new ownership of
Wayne Christensen of Custom Leather by WC,

will continue to bring you your Leather craft and Native American craft supply needs.

Who is Wayne Christensen?
Wayne Christensen, the owner of Standing Bear's Trading Post and Leather by WC,
has been doing leatherwork for over 25 years.

Wayne’s Motto is
"You only have two things, your ability & your integrity.
If you compromise either one, you've lost the other."

He got his start in leathercraft when a neighbor who was moving gave him a 55 gal drum full of scrap leather. He went to his local Tandy Leather store and bought a small beginners tool set. Wayne has said that the manager, Don McGown was one of the most helpful people he has met. If it wasn’t for all his help and encouragement Wayne said that he would have given up.

After a few years he was able to take some classes from masters
like Robert Beard, Peter Main, Tony Laier and Chuck Smith.

Leatherwork became his passion,
he turned it into his full time business in 1990 and has never had a days regret.

In 1995 the new Tandy Manager asked him to teach the advanced leather class for him. Wayne has been teaching leathercrafting ever since.
When he started teaching in 1995, he taught one night a week.

In 1999 when Tandy all of their retail stores and Standing Bear's Trading Post was opened, Wayne moved his custom leather shop in and helped run the store.
Upon opening the store he began teaching both a beginners and an advanced class.
Five years ago he added another beginners class and two years ago opened another night for an intermediate class. He also teaches private classes on Friday nights for people that don’t want to take a full A-Z course or someone who just wants to learn to make a single type of project.

Wayne has been teaching the Boy Scouts leathercraft merit badge class
for the last nine years and has visited many schools to demonstrate leather craft.
Since he is unable to get away from the store much anymore, he now offer free classes to teachers and camp counselors so that after learning the basics of the crafy they in turn can go back and teach their students.

Wayne has found teaching leatherwork to be one of the most rewarding things he has ever done. His students have pushed his abilities far beyond anything he would have done on his own.

For many years now Wayne has had other instructors such as
Bob Beard and Jeff Mosby come and teach classes.
Wayne encourages his students to take as many classes from other instructors
as possible and he continues to take classes and learn new techniques
so that he can pass them on to his students and customers.

Seven years ago the original manager of Standing Bear's Trading Post left
and Wayne became full time manager as well as running his custom leather business,
Leather by WC.

In June 2006, when the owner William “Standing Bear” Kimmey passed away,
the family transferred ownership of the store to Wayne Christensen.

Some of the things that Wayne has been involved in over the years,
include the following:
The Autry Museum invited him to instruct at their “make it and take it” for the public in ’95, ’96, & ’97.

In 1995 he also did a TV show for HGTV called “What’s Your Hobby?”
Even though he was doing leatherwork for a living not a hobby,
they thought he’d be best for the show.

Wayne has been a member of the International Internet Leathercrafters Guild ("IILG") since 1996.
Wayne is also a member of The Leathercraft Guild and the current Vice-president.

In 1999 Wayne was the only leather artist invited to put work in the
Fuller Museum in Brockton Mass. In an exhibit call
“Hand Crafted for Outdoor Sports”

On September 17th 2006 he was presented a flag flown over the Capital
by Congressman Brad Sherman's Office in recognition for
dedication and service to the youth of the community.

In February 2008, Wayne was asked to be a part of Biker Radio Magazine’s radio show entitled “The Leather Show”.
During the episode he was able to share with listeners
how to work with leather in order to personalize their motorcycles.

On April 20th 2008, Wayne had the honor of being presented
with the Weaver Memorial Perpetual Trophy
for Outstanding Service to The Leathercraft Guild,
by guild president Robert Ambriz

Wayne has said that getting into leatherwork has changed his life for the better.
Please support Wayne in his quest to continue in the mission and purpose of enhancing his customer's lives by bringing them unique products while providing customer service that is second to none.

We hope to be the preferred supplier for leathercrafters nationwide
by being able to offer a vast selection of quality leathercraft products
for retail and wholesale customers at affordable prices

About Our Suppliers:

We are Tandy Leather Factory, Hide Crafter Authorized Service Centers,
as well as distributors for other Native American Craft and Leathercraft Companies

Because we are authorized distributors for many different suppliers
Items listed on the website are items we can get from these leathercrafting &
Native American Craft suppliers and may not be stocked in our store at all times.
If the items are not in stock, we can have them drop-shipped from the warehouse of our supplier or have them ordered into the store in a timely fashion to assist you in receiving your product promptly.

Hide Crafter Leather Company
Hide Crafter is known as America's Leathercraft Super center.
This is a company that supports MANY authorized dealers worldwide.
When ordering the products we carry that are from this supplier, you can purchase with confidence. All the merchandise we purchase from Hide Crafters has been selected especially for leathercrafters. Being an authorized dealer for Hide Crafters provides our company access to a large selection of proprietary tools, patterns and videos devoted to leathercrafting.

Tandy Leather Factory - Retail and Wholesale Leather and Supplies
Since 1919, Tandy Leather Company has been the resource for over four generations of leathercrafters, Being an Authorized sales center for Tandy Leather Factory (being a Tandy Leather ASC), we are able to offer products from the finest names in the leathercraft industry such as Fiebing's, Lexol, Craftool, Craftaid, Al Stohlman Brand, Tippman, Garland USA, Osborne and Tejas Lace. We are able to work with a Tandy Leather Factory, a company that has been resource for over four generations of leathercrafters, providing quality leather, tools, and leathercraft kits.

The Leather Factory is a leathercraft company created in 1980,
The Leather Factory purchased Tandy Leather at the end of 2000, after Tandy Leather hit financial trouble In 2002, the company merged. The official name of the company was changed to Tandy Leather Factory in 2005.

We also are distributors for other leathercraft companies and have several other suppliers including Native American craft supply companies across the US to assist us in meeting your needs.

Due to our vast experience in the leather craft industry we have been able to test prospective new suppliers products and make selections of suppliers that will meet the needs of our customers whether they are doing leather crafts, beading, gourd work, scout merit badges, looking for a project for scouts, ymca programs or for a school diorama about Native Americans.

As Authorized Sales Centers for Tandy leather, The Leather Factory and the company now known as Tandy Leather Factory as well as being distributors for Hide Crafter Leathercraft Company and other suppliers nationwide we are able to provide our customers with high quality products to assist them in the craft they are in and are able to feature many of the products you will find on their web sites, and in our suppliers catalogs. As an independent small business, you can find lots of unusual, hard to find gift items, and more in our store from the many suppliers we, as an independent store can get our items from.

Please be aware that our pricing may vary on items from the above listed companies,

Please Contact us if you do not see something on our web-site that you are looking for, or if you have any questions.

Standing Bear's Trading Post is a sole proprietorship.
We hope that are attempts to meet the needs of our customers by carrying many
different products to supply what people are looking for will help lessen the burden of
us not having a catalog, pricing, or purchasing available online.
Our Mission is to enhance our customer's lives by bringing them unique products
while providing customer service that is second to none.
We hope to be the preferred supplier for leathercrafters nationwide
by being able to offer a vast selection of quality leathercraft products
for retail and wholesale customers at affordable prices

If we don't have what you are looking for - We will do the best we can to find it!

Pricing and Ordering Information

In an attempt to better serve our customers,
Standing Bear's Trading Post conducts all orders via phone and e-mail correspondence or in our store in Reseda, California..
Due to the ever changing prices from our suppliers, so that you can get accurate pricing before ordering we do not currently list pricing on the website.
For pricing information, questions about our products or to order,
please e-mail us at inquiry@sbearstradingpost.com or Call us at 818-342-9120
Monday Through Saturday 10am - 6pm
(1PM - 9PM Eastern Time)

Visit our Store, or Order via Phone and e-mail and Have Your Order Shipped
WE SHIP NATIONWIDE
7624 Tampa Ave. Reseda, Ca. 91335
818 342-9120
HOURS: Mon. Thru Sat. 10am - 6pm (1PM - 9PM Eastern Time)

For Pricing Information
Please call or e-mail me with the item number and description of items
and I will reply with pricing as well as ordering information.
Orders are processed the day they are received or the following day
and are usually shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order if it is in a business day,
or it is shipped the following business day. We strive to provide quality customer service.

Please call 818-342-9120 or e-mail me with any questions.

We strive to answer all inquiries, and questions in a timely manner,
We appreciate the customers and supporters of our California small business.
In a world where "mom and pop" businesses are going by the wayside
and corporations are striving,

Thank you for supporting us!

To place an order
Please call or e-mail me with a shipping address, phone number to reach you and
the item # and quantity of the item you are interested in.
I will then figure out the merchandise total with or without tax, and the shipping costs.
(We ship Nationwide for customer convenience.)
I would call or e-mail you with the total cost
and then call you with these totals for payment via credit card
when the items were in stock and ready to ship.
The items would be shipped the same day or day after payment was received.

Leather by WCis located within Standing Bear's
WC is the owner of Standing Bear's Trading Post as well as Leather by WC
and is Your Source for Custom Handcrafted Leather products.

Return Policy:
Merchandise must be returned within 30 days No returns are accepted after 30 days
A 10% restocking fee is deducted from all return payments.
Returned items must be unopened and unused,
they have to be in new, resalable condition.
No returns on open package items
Original shipping charges are not refundable,
Customer pays return shipping fees
Bulk/Special orders cannot be returned

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Thank You for Visiting Standing Bear's Trading Post
Your Southern California Leather and Native Craft Supply Source
7624 Tampa Ave.
Reseda, Ca. 91335
818-342-9120

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