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Christian Workshop was founded in the summer of 1971 by Tim

Kennedy. He started out with a backpack full of leather tools and $40.00 in a tiny shop

in old downtown Melbourne, Florida. While living in the back room of the leather

shop, he applied his creativity, skills and hard work to build a modest, but honest and

reputable business. Learning the trade the hard way -- by reading, studying the work and

picking up tips from other craftsmen along the way -- has given Tim a unique

perspective of his craft. His ability to work with a wide variety of materials and

construction styles to produce reasonably priced articles of superb utility, durability and

elegance have been hallmarks of Tim's business for nearly three decades now. Christian

Workshop has grown to the point that we now have a 3,000-square-foot facility with an

impressive array of machines and inventory.

Tim will be the first to let you know that all of this good fortune is not merely

because of his hard work or "luck." He has a firm belief in and dependence upon the

providence of God, hence the name Christian Workshop, and the motto, Eximus Et

Gratis Dei -- In Gratitude To God. We are confident that if anything needs a case, a

cover, a harness, a bag, a sheath or whatever, we can make it, make it right and at a

reasonable price!