About Miles High Supplies
We started in a one-room workshop with a pair of hand-stitching ponies, three brass anvils, and a stack of saddle-leather sides we couldn’t quite afford. The first thing we made was a bifold wallet for a friend whose old one had finally given up after twelve years of being sat on. He carried the new one through three job changes and a move to Tokyo, and it never lost a stitch. That wallet is the standard for everything we still make.
Today we are a small American workshop in Anaheim, California, making heritage-grade leather, brass, and waxed-canvas goods for people who travel for work and live for the long flights in between. Six people work the benches. Every piece that ships from here is hand-finished, marked with our maker’s stamp, and built to outlast the bag you’re putting it in.
What we make
Wallets and small leather goods in Horween cordovan. Bags and dopp kits in 18oz and 24oz Martexin waxed canvas with full saddle-leather trim. Pens with solid brass barrels and leather grip wraps. Compass keychains, brass luggage tags, and a brass-cap folding travel toothbrush we have manufactured by a small factory in Seki, Japan. A journal bound around 240 pages of Tomoe River paper. A silk eye mask for sleeping on red-eye flights.
Everything we make is designed to be used, hard, for years, and to look better after that use than it did the day you bought it.
Where we source
Our cordovan comes from Horween Leather Company in Chicago, tanned the way they’ve tanned it since 1905. Our waxed canvas is Martexin, woven and waxed in New Jersey from cotton duck. Our brass is milled in a small machine shop in upstate New York from sand-cast bar stock. The Tomoe River paper for our journal is made in Shizuoka, Japan. Saddle leather for trim and small goods comes from a third-generation tannery in Pennsylvania.
We don’t outsource to anyone we haven’t met, and we don’t substitute materials when our preferred supplier is briefly unavailable. If a product is back-ordered because Horween’s cordovan supply is tight, we’d rather wait than send something less.
How we work
Every piece is hand-cut and hand-stitched by one of the six people in the workshop. We don’t use a sewing machine for any of our small leather goods; the saddle stitch is done by hand with waxed Tiger thread on traditional stitching ponies. Bigger pieces like the weekender bag use a heavy industrial Cobra Class 4 machine for the long seams and hand-stitching for the stress points.
The maker’s stamp is debossed and gold-foiled by hand on a 1953 Kingsley press we restored two years ago. It’s slower than running stamping through a third-party shop but the result is sharper and the color sits better in the leather.
The maker’s mark
Our logo — the circular seal reading “MILES HIGH SUPPLIES · HERITAGE TRAVEL GOODS · EST. 1947” with a small twin-engine aircraft silhouette in the center — appears on every product we make. The 1947 date references the year the original Beechcraft Bonanza first flew, which we like as the design ancestor for the kind of travel object we want to make: built once, built well, lasts a lifetime.
What we stand behind
One-year manufacturer’s warranty on every piece we sell. Thirty-day no-questions return on unused merchandise. Lifetime repair service on stitching at cost — if a seam pulls loose ten years from now, send it back and we’ll re-stitch it for the price of shipping plus thread.
You can read the full Terms of Sale, Shipping policy, Returns policy, and Privacy Policy for the details. If anything is ever unclear, write to hello@mileshighsupplies.store and a real person at the bench will reply.