{"product_id":"harlans-handmade-bolo-ties","title":"Harlan's Handmade Bolo Ties","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"\u003e\n\u003ctitle\u003eHarlan Renfro — Die-Struck Bolo Ties · Product Information\u003c\/title\u003e\n\u003cstyle\u003e\n@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Roboto+Slab:wght@500;600;700\u0026family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700\u0026display=swap');\n\/* ============================================================\n   PRODUKTSEITE — Renfro \u0026 Son, Flatonia, Texas\n   Farbwelt: Knochenweiss \/ Altmessing \/ Oxidstahl \/ Kordelbraun\n   Thematik: Gesenkgeschlagenes Metall (Praegerand) + Sonnenmarke\n   Alle Regeln mit !important, gescopet unter .rf-wrapper\n   ============================================================ *\/\n.rf-wrapper {\n    --bg: #F4F1E9 !important;\n    --card: #FBF9F3 !important;\n    --panel: #E8E2D4 !important;\n    --line: #D3CBB8 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His grandfather cut steel dies for harness makers in this town in 1913, his father struck the first of these on a Thursday afternoon in 1971, and Harlan has been at the same press since 1980. There are three people left in the building and nine presses standing under sheets. For readers of the article, \u003cstrong\u003e2,000 have been set aside at $35 instead of $70\u003c\/strong\u003e — after that it costs what it has always cost.\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Story --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-story\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-story-quote\"\u003e“A man came in to buy a shirt for his brother’s funeral and my father measured him at eighteen and a half, and the collar would not close. He said he’d sit it out at the house. My father went in the back, put one of his own father’s harness dies under the press and struck him a sun out of brass, braided a cord for it, set a spring on the back. Took him the afternoon. The man went and buried his brother in a collared shirt. He came back the following year and ordered four more.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-story-cite\"\u003e— Harlan Renfro · Renfro \u0026amp; Son, Flatonia, Texas\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Includes --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-includes\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-kicker\"\u003eWhat You Receive\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003ch2 class=\"rf-title\"\u003eEverything That Ships With Your Tie\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-rule\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"rf-inc-grid\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-inc-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-inc-num\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eThe Tie\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eOne die-struck sun on braided leather, spring set and checked by Harlan before it goes in the box. Ready to wear the day it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-inc-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-inc-num\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eYour Finish\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eAntique brass on brown leather, or antique silver on black. Two, and there have never been more than two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-inc-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-inc-num\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003e39 Inches of Cord\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eFour-strand round braid, cut from hide out of Yoakum, thirty miles down the road. Weighted tips swaged on solid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-inc-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-inc-num\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eSherri’s Card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eSix lines in the lid of the box telling you how to wear it. Same six lines his daughter has been writing since she was eleven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"rf-divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Features --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-features\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-kicker\"\u003eWhy This One\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003ch2 class=\"rf-title\"\u003eSix Things You Won’t Find on a $12 Copy\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-rule\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-intro\"\u003eEvery detail below came out of a hundred years of striking metal in one room, and knowing exactly where the cheap version gives up first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-grid\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Metal\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eStruck, Not Cast\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eA cast piece is poured into a mould. The metal runs where it wants and the pattern comes out soft and rounded — fine in a photograph, dead in the hand. Struck means the metal is driven sideways into the die under pressure, one hit at a time, and the pattern comes out with a corner on it. Run a thumbnail across ours. It catches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Spring\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eIt Stays Where You Put It\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eThe one thing that ruins a bolo tie is a slide that creeps down your chest by eleven in the morning, and it is always the same fault: a bent wire on the back instead of a proper plate. Harlan sets a spring plate on every single one by hand. Hold the tie up by the slide and let it hang. Ours does not travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Cord\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eBraided Leather, and the Braid Has a Job\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eThe texture of a four-strand braid is what gives the spring something to grip. Smooth cord slips, and cheap synthetic cord kinks, goes soft and stays bent where it was folded in the packet. This is leather, and it holds its shape from the first day to the last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Size\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003e30 mm, and That Is On Purpose\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003e“A man’s tie is not supposed to be the first thing you see about him,” Harlan says. Everything else on the shelves now has a steer skull on it, or a stone the size of a thumb, or rhinestones. Three of those patterns went through this shop and all three are gone. The plain sun is the one that stayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Fit\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eThere Is No Neck Size\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eThere never has been. It does not care what your collar has been doing for the last ten years, and it does not ask you to close a top button that stopped closing years ago. It also means you can buy one for a man without finding out his size first, which is the reason most of these leave the shop in a box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-feat-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-feat-icon\"\u003eThe Tips\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003ch3\u003eWeighted, So They Hang Straight\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eLight tips swing about and end up sitting at odd angles across your shirt. These are solid and swaged on, so they hang plumb and stop where they should — at the second or third button. Small thing. It is the difference between looking dressed and looking like you tried something on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Craft note --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-expert\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-expert-kicker\"\u003eCraft Note\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-expert-quote\"\u003e“You can tell struck work from cast before you have looked at anything else. Put your thumbnail across the pattern — struck has an edge on it because the metal was displaced, not poured, and a cast piece feels like a bar of soap by comparison. Then turn it over. A plated piece will show you where the plating stops, usually a slightly different colour around the shank, and that is the spot that goes green on a shirt collar in a couple of summers. Solid metal has nowhere to wear through to. It just goes darker in the low parts of the pattern, which is what you want anyway.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-expert-cite\"\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-expert-name\"\u003eMerle Bassett\u003c\/span\u003e\n             — Tool-and-die maker, 41 years · Bench-trained, Central Texas\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Perfect for --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-perfect\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-kicker\"\u003eWhere It Goes\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003ch2 class=\"rf-title\"\u003eFor Any Man Who Has To Dress, Not Just Cowboys\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-rule\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-intro\"\u003eThe men who own these are accountants, machinists, pastors, bus drivers, a dentist in Ohio and a retired airline pilot in Florida. What they have in common is that they got tired of choosing between a necktie and nothing at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"rf-tags\"\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Sunday Service\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Weddings\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Funerals \u0026amp; Memorials\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Courthouse \u0026amp; Civic\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Banquets \u0026amp; Awards Nights\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Under a Jacket, Any Day\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                Western Formal\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag\"\u003e\n                \u003cspan class=\"rf-tag-dot\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n                A Gift For a Hard Man To Buy For\n            \u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"rf-divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Quality promise --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-list\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-kicker\"\u003eQuality Promise\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003ch2 class=\"rf-title\"\u003eFive Things You Get With Every Tie\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-rule\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-items\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-check\"\u003e✓\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-text\"\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003eHarlan’s Hands On Every Single One\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                    \u003cspan\u003eHe sets the blank, pulls the press, sets the spring tension and checks each finished tie before it is boxed. Three people work in that building and none of them is on an assembly line.\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-check\"\u003e✓\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-text\"\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003eStruck Under Dies Cut By Hand in 1913\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                    \u003cspan\u003eEmmett Renfro cut them for harness makers before the automobile ended that trade. The pattern has been struck from the same steel ever since and has never been redrawn — which is why a tie from 1974 and one from this week are the same object.\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-check\"\u003e✓\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-text\"\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003eSolid Metal — No Plating To Rub Through\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                    \u003cspan\u003eSolid brass with an antique finish, or German silver on the black. There is no bright plate sitting on a cheap core waiting to wear off at the edges and mark a shirt collar. It darkens in the low parts of the pattern instead, which is the part people end up liking.\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-check\"\u003e✓\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-text\"\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003e39 Inches of Braided Leather Cord\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                    \u003cspan\u003eCut from hide out of Yoakum, thirty miles down the road, and braided four-strand round. The braid is not decoration — it is the friction the spring holds on to. Look-alikes have turned up on the big marketplaces on synthetic cord that kinks in the packet.\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-check\"\u003e✓\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"rf-list-text\"\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003e2,000 At the Reader Price, Then Back To $70\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                    \u003cspan\u003eNothing is closing and there is no countdown clock. Renfro \u0026amp; Son set 2,000 aside at $35 because the article asked what would actually help. When those are gone the price is $70 again, the same as it was before anybody wrote about them.\u003c\/span\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Guarantee --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-guarantee\"\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-mark\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003e90-Day Money-Back Guarantee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eWear it about. If it isn’t what you thought when it arrives — the weight, the finish, the size, anything at all — put it back in the post within 90 days for a full refund. No questions and no forms. “I only want these with people who are actually going to wear them,” Harlan says. “If it’s wrong for you, send it back and I’ll find it somebody else.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Workshop note --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-note\"\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-note-title\"\u003eA Note From the Workshop\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eNo two strikes come out identical. The press is ninety-five years old, the dies are older, and the antique finish is worked in by hand afterwards — so the depth of the shadow in the rays and the exact tone of the brass move slightly from one to the next. That is not a fault. It is what a hundred-year-old die looks like when a person stands at a press and pulls it, one at a time. The same goes for the leather: hide is not uniform, and the brown cord runs a little lighter or darker depending on where in the skin it was cut. Sherri and Lorene pack every order themselves at the same bench, which is why it occasionally takes a day longer than it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n    \u003c!-- Specs --\u003e\n    \u003csection class=\"rf-specs\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"rf-kicker\"\u003eThe Details\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003ch2 class=\"rf-title\"\u003eProduct Specifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cspan class=\"rf-rule\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003ctable class=\"rf-table\"\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eSlide\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eDie-struck sunburst, 1.2″ \/ 30 mm across. Solid brass with an antique finish, or German silver — no plating over a base metal\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eDies\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCut by hand by Emmett Renfro in 1913 for harness work. The pattern has never been redrawn\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCord\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e39″ \/ 100 cm of braided leather, four-strand round braid — sits as a 19.7″ loop when worn. Hide out of Yoakum, Texas\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eTips\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e1.3″ \/ 33 mm, solid and weighted, swaged on — they hang plumb instead of swinging\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eFinishes\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003eAntique brass\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                     on brown cord\n                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                    \u003cstrong\u003eAntique silver\u003c\/strong\u003e\n                     on black cord\n                \u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eMechanism\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHand-set spring plate on the reverse. Slides where you push it, stops where you leave it\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eFit\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eNo neck size, and there never has been. Fits any collar, and fits a man you are buying for without asking him\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHow To Wear It\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCollar buttoned. Slide pushed up under the chin, not down on the chest. Tips to the second or third button. The more formal the occasion, the higher you wear it\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eMarking\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eThe die number struck into the reverse of the slide. Look-alikes have appeared on the big marketplaces and are hard to tell apart in a listing photograph — the number is how you know\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCare\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eWipe the metal with a dry cloth; leave the antique finish alone, polish takes it off. A little leather conditioner on the cord once a year is plenty. Do not machine wash\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eUse\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eChurch · Weddings · Funerals · Courthouse · Banquets · Under a jacket, any day · Gifting\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eBoxed\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eShips in a box with Sherri Renfro’s card in the lid — six lines on how to wear it\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eMaker\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHarlan Renfro — Renfro \u0026amp; Son, 118 Peach Street, Flatonia, Texas. Third generation; at the press since 1980\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eReader Price\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e$35 per tie, either finish — 2,000 set aside, then back to $70\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eShipping\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eShips from Flatonia, Texas · free US shipping · 3–5 business days\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eSold By\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCraft Folk — the only place Renfro’s ties are sold\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eGuarantee\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e90-day full refund, no questions asked\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n        \u003c\/table\u003e\n    \u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Marlow Market","offers":[{"title":"Antique Brass \/ Brown","offer_id":54876508455255,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Antique Silver \/ Black","offer_id":54876508488023,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/9505\/2887\/files\/hf_20260904_105412_ddd6e33b-c24f-41c7-8eda-90f95049580e.png?v=1788519591","url":"https:\/\/www.marlowmarketco.com\/products\/harlans-handmade-bolo-ties","provider":"Marlow Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}