Chuck Burrows Memorial Website

[CraigC]

My attempts at contacting Chuck's heirs have not produced any fruit. Unfortunately, the company that owns the original domain thinks it's worth more than I wanted to pay. I am moving forward with wrtcleather.org and it will be strictly a memorial site for Chuck's work. I have already registered the domain and have given instructions to my web developer to get started. It won't restore the pictures to his forum posts but at least it's a start. I will keep an eye out on the .com and hope that I can secure it at a later date. It will look like the original site but I will also add gallery pages where customers and friends can submit pictures to be posted and I may put up some of his forum posts as articles. While the site is mostly intact on the wayback machine, I will need some help locating the pictures that are missing. I'll have a page with a list of file names that folks can use to look through the pictures they have so we can fill in the missing pieces. I have also created a new subforum at Sixgunner.com for discussion, sharing of pics, etc..

I have also setup a new email account so if you have something you want to submit, send it here:

wrtcleather at hotmail.com

I don't know if I need to say this or not but this is strictly a not-for-profit endeavor.

 

[gramps]

Who is Chuck Burrows?
gramps

 

[CraigC]

Chuck Burrows was the owner/operator of Wild Rose Trading Company. He was a professional leather crafter of about 50yrs experience, specializing in frontier gunleather and accouterments, native american beadwork of the pre-1850's era and knifemaking. He had DVD's on making knife sheaths and holsters and posted on various forums sharing his knowledge and skills. He passed away in 2016 far too young. If you do a Google image search, you can find pics of his work. In a few days, you can see the rest of it on the new website: wrtcleather.org

This is Chuck Burrows:

Examples of his work:

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[Poco Oso]

Chuck did some of the best Native American/Mountain Man beadand leather work I've ever laid eyes on. Used some of his designs as a base for my own work. Spent more thana few dollars at his establishment. He will be missed.

 

[gramps]

Thanks for the education/show and tell! I wish I had known of his talent before he died.
gramps