MKLeatherworks Custom Shop

“If you can dream it, we can make it.”

Master Leathersmith Michael Keiley began doing custom leather work in the early 1970’s. Today, he directs the efforts at MKLeatherworks where, in addition to our finely-crafted stock items, we offer custom leatherworking services. Among our specialties are:

Hand-tooling and Pyrography (precision leather burning)    Custom Guitar Straps   

Motion Picture Props    TV and Advertising Props    Corporate Gifts    Specialty Cases and Fitted Luggage

Repairs and Restoration  

Above: Hand-tooled inserts for team photo albums

Above: Scenes from the movie Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones. Reproductions of period-correct baseball gloves were made by Michael Keiley during his tenure with Atlanta Leather Specialties.

Above: Michael’s “most famous child”, the iconic journal through which Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) narrates the story in Costner’s epic Dances With Wolves. The propmaster for the film, the late Scott A. Stevens, was based in Atlanta, and was not only a customer, but a friend to all of us at ALS.