Leather Plus first emerged on the scene in the mid-1970s as an extension of our store, Fremont Shoe Repair.  Finding that we
  could often make more money doing art/craft shows than we could repair shoes, we offered English calfskin wallets, belts, and 
  buckles.
 
  Leaving the shoe repair business, we continued to dabble in leather products.  In the 1990s, Ed got a chance to go to South
  Dakota where he learned how to make cowboy boots using exotics.  Using that knowledge, we incorporated the exotic skins into
  our wallet line, finding we had a very marketable commodity.

  In 1999, we bought an existing woodcarving tool business, which we ran under the name of Leather Plus just to make
  bookkeeping easier.  We have now decided to return leatherplus.com to its original purposes, while marketing the woodcarving
  tools, books, and supplies on its new stand-alone website: toolsforwoodcarvers.com