Buffalo leather vs Cowhide

[derrynakmuay]

+1 for the kangaroo leather. It's used for some motorcycle gear, race type stuff. I've a pair of kangaroo gloves and they're super thin and light in comparison with cowhide but really expensive.

 

[joeymarvelous]

Yea definitely have a deerskin, buffalo skin, aligator skin, and whatever skin you can get your hands on. Many collector's will be buying from you and paying good money to boot. You can be like a collector's store. Have a premium collector's edition and your regular stuff out of cowhide or whatever.

Someone really needs to make kangaroo leather gloves. It has great tensile strength when split thin, and keeps its form well after stretching. It is also environmentally sound, depending on the supplier.
The best thing about it for me, though, is that scratches don't tend to harden and crust like they do with buffalo leather. They can be buffed out just like a good quality calf skin.

+1 for the kangaroo leather. It's used for some motorcycle gear, race type stuff. I've a pair of kangaroo gloves and they're super thin and light in comparison with cowhide but really expensive.

It took some looking, but we've got kangaroo! Only black color is available right now, but we can do custom gloves with it for just $175USD!

 

[derrynakmuay]

It took some looking, but we've got kangaroo! Only black color is available right now, but we can do custom gloves with it for just $175USD!

No way! I hope someone orders a pair just for the craic. They'd be ultra soft and durable but the real benefits of kangaroo leather might be lost in boxing gloves. In motorcycle gloves, it's used for "feel"; summer gloves can be much thinner than cowhide but just as protective and allow more sensitivity and control. I'm not sure that it'd be as important in boxing gloves with 2" of foam.

Having said that, the leather would far outlast the foam and look great for a very long time.

 

[Jaxxstatic]

Kangaroo on palm side would be great. I think one of the reasons Cleto Reyes fight gloves and Winning training gloves feel so good is because of the lack of extraneous material in the palm. Good "feel," good fist.

 

[Jaxxstatic]

How do we order from you?

 

[joeymarvelous]

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