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All Products Handcrafted in the USA
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Many stories have been told and many observations made at the campfire.
Walden & Bork is a US company that was conceived around a safari campfire in Africa years ago.
We owe much to our grandfathers, who once fashioned items such as chair seats, chaps, vests, harness...and made farm repairs from game skins and cowhide. Both had a fond appreciation of natural things which thankfully, was passed down through the generations.
Today, more than a 100 years after our resourceful grandfathers employed natural leathers for needed items, Walden & Bork offers hunters the unique opportunity to preserve the tradition of the hunt by using accumulated game skins and hides for making useful hand crafted personal items. |
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 Grandfather Gustav Bork was born of immigrant parents on the North Dakota prairie in 1885. He loved the land. Shown here with his friend Chris Larsen, on the Big Slough just North of his farm, Grandfather Bork, (left), loved to hunt! Just before he died, he shot a double on Teal...two birds--one shot! (There was a pattern here). He was also a saver, telling me often when I was about to discard something, “You never know when you might use that.” And so it became a family ritual...saving pieces of leather, scraps of tin and other treasures that others looked upon as junk. |
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Grandfather Jesse Walden, the son of an immigrant Arkansas farmer, moved with his family in 1898 to Oklahoma because his Dad had heard they were selling good land at a good price in Southeastern Oklahoma. At the outbreak of WW I, Grandfather Jesse tried to sign up for the Army twice before they accepted him. After a tour in France he returned with his victorious comrades and took up life on the Oklahoma homestead his father settled. Grandfather Jesse, a blacksmith by trade, was terrifically handy, building his home with his own hands, fashioning beams from local hardwoods and furniture from local wood and leather. All to his exact specifications and at the right price.
Lessons learned from gentleman far wiser than we.
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Custom Crafted Accessories From Your Game skins...
Put your back skins and games hides to good use!
Commission Walden & Bork to design and hand craft tasteful... unique...one of a kind personal accessory items from your game skins. For personal use or as gifts for friends, family or business associates. Elegant ladies purses, wallets, tote bags, checkbook covers , notebook covers, eyeglass cases...endless possibilities--timeless memories. |
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Use All of the Trophy!
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