Starting to get some exciting new products in for the up and coming general store. All made in North America with traditional materials, and using traditional artisanal methods. We also have some great collaberations with a few companies coming up too. Should have this all together and running by the end of the month.

Spent some time the last few days setting up a basic light box. Shooting items for the General store … coming soon. Pretty basic set up, pvc pipes, and white material and a few lights. Did the trick nicely though.

The store had one of our busiest Decembers ever, Steelwool has lots of custom frames in the line-up and I was burning the midnight oil afterhours in my own shop.

I finished my first order of 7 belts, plus quite a few more for Christmas presents. I also came up with this simple tote bag, ok so it’s not that simple but I love detailling just can’t help myself.

The tote certainly wasn’t without a few struggles, the first batch of dye turned the leather burgendy rather than brown. I almost pulled my hair out but I kept going and nailed the next attempt. I think it turned out pretty well, and I think Ange and my Mum who got one each for Christmas seemed pretty pleased. Who knows this might be something that becomes available in our soon-to-be launched online store.

Will

Well yes we have been neglecting the blog a little bit as of late, but we have a good excuse! Our bike shop Tall Tree Cycles has been pretty nuts over the holidays, what with warm weather, Thom vacationing in England and store reno’s. Not to mention we have been a bit run off our feet with the volume of custom frames that we are working on these days.

Somewhere in between all this crazyness we have been working on implamenting a new point of sales system, and trying to launch the Steelwool General Store. The general store store is something we have been planning on launching for a few years, but wanted to do it right so it’s taken a while.

The launch is right around the corner and we will post more soon with all the details.