Possibles Bag pricing question

[Jerry Samouce]

I purchased a spotted Bob cat hide.
I am planning on making a bob cat bag like the ones in the attached photos... If I can pull it off!

What is a realistic ballpark price for something of this level...?

 

[andy52]

If your's comes out as nice as the one in photo 1623468607 I'd say 300+ would be a fair price. There's a lot of time and labor in a bag like that plus the cost of the bobcat hide.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

Whoever made that one did a pretty good job.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I think you're alright as I believe a Bobcat is considered a fur bearing animal, as opposed to a small game animal, meaning one that you would hunt for food. I mention this as a fur bearer is hunted so that the hide may be made into something for resale, but a great many states have regulations that prohibit the selling of all or part of a "game animal", due to long ago when market hunters were a common thing.

I know of a situation where a bag maker, not realizing the possible problem, had a deer hide "hair on" and then used that for the flap on a possibles bag. When he was at a craft show, the DNR Officer there was a bit curious as to the origin of the hair-on flaps on the rifle bags. The bag maker was able to persuade the officer, that since he also had tin decorative cones for sale with red dyed deer hair added (for decorations on moccasins) and that he had obtained THAT hair from a hair-on hide bought from a fly tying supply company, that it was also possible that his bag flaps came from other than a wild game animal.

LD

 

[andy52]

I'm not sure about every state law but most of them allow the use and sale of commercially tanned pelts. Only endangered and limited take animals would be a problem and if they are properly tagged not even then.

 

[Capt. Jas.]

Here is the original posting with a little background on the bag shown in this thread.
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/cat-bag.122308/#post-1677668

 

[Jerry Samouce]

I now have my Bobcat fur and my practice Kit fox fur.
The kit fox fur because it is fine and short and adult fox fur is to long and deep for a bag.
The red leather is coming. and my needed red striped pillow ticking fabric is on the way as well.

 

[Bob McBride]

Whoever made that one did a pretty good job.

I’ll take two for $300 please.

 

[Jerry Samouce]

Whoever made that one did a pretty good job.

I wasn't me... But IT WILL BE SOON....

 

[Bob McBride]

I wasn't me... But IT WILL BE SOON....

Jerry, Capt Jas. made that bag.

Look up James Rogers Reproductions and Recreations on Facebook. That bag is one of my favs.

 

[Jerry Samouce]

Jerry, Capt Jas. made that bag.

Look up James Rogers Reproductions and Recreations on Facebook. That bag is one of my favs.

Dang! that guy has MAD SKILLS!

 

[OhioHawkeye]

I purchased a spotted Bob cat hide.
I am planning on making a bob cat bag like the ones in the attached photos... If I can pull it off!

What is a realistic ballpark price for something of this level...?

General handcraft guide for pricing is 3x the material's cost... but sometimes materials don't actually cost anything so make sure you get a fair price for the time and expertise involved. An excellent example is quillworking.

 

[toot]

terrific!