Buzz Kidder seems to be a family business. Their website says they're in southern Arizona - Sierra Vista, but when I was going through the same thing with my sporran order they were having the goods made up by a family member in Texas.

They seem to make the sporrans to order. They also seem to market to many Scottish supply houses where they are resold. Because of that I'd assumed there'd be lots of sporrans on hand, they'd just pull it off their shelf and ship it to me. Not so.

I also ordered some of those sporran hanger things. I like them. But one snap just wouldn't hold. Emailed them and they replaced it. Good they seem to stand behind their products.

One thing I've learned about the kilt world is that there are many small family businesses trying to get by - each with their own "personality." They have to react to business as it comes in...sometimes that's overwhelming and a lot of us have to wait while they catch up. Seems the better their product the worse it can be.

There are also a lot of suppliers that are just jobbers....middlemen who reorder from a source but advertise that they "have" products. So we order from the middleman and wait while they reorder from wherever...sometimes a long wait, and no matter how much we hound the middleman there's nothing they can do but wait with us.

Like, I ordered Kilt hose from Clansman Knitwear in California...they advertise its in stock, they assured me it was in stock....yet it took many weeks to receive the kilt hose....when they arrived they'd been drop shipped from the Locharron warehouse in New Hampshire.

Hope I haven't stolen the tread...just over elaborating on the above comment that this ain't WalMart...

Ron