Rocky Mountain Western serving customers for over 20 years. We make bolo ties assembled to your specifications from our offering of stones, slides, leather and tips — thousands of combinations.
We sell supplies so you can make your own bolo ties for gifts, personal use or resale by your business.
And we execute full custom jobs of 1 to 500+ pieces. The big jobs are often for corporate off-sites. But we have done custom projects for clubs, choirs, churches, Navy officers and sheriff’s departments. We once made a bolo tie from a customer’s antique glass eye…that one still creeps us out!
We love bolo ties but we love helping customers more.
All our bolo ties are made to order. We receive your order and assemble it to your specifications, by hand, in our little shop here in New Jersey.*
We try to source all components domestically. All the slides and most of the tips are made here in the USA, Rhode Island to be exact, using molds that we own. Other components, like the backs and some of the tips, are sourced from an American distributor but were manufactured in Asia. We get most of the stones from domestic distributors but a few which we can’t find domestically we get directly from a cutter/polisher in India. Our braided leather cord all comes directly from India – no one in the USA works leather anymore it seems.
To ensure your satisfaction, we have a no-questions-asked return policy. If you don’t like what you get or there is a defect, send it back for a speedy full refund or exchange. Watch our videos for advice..call us…or email us. We answer emails 24/7/365. We are happy to help.
Thank You,
Steve & Vicki
*We often get asked “How can Rocky Mountain Western be in New Jersey??!!!”:
It’s a long story….Over 10 years ago, a husband and wife retired from careers as air traffic controllers in Atlanta. He always wanted to have a ranch. She agreed and they moved to Wyoming. Sounded like a good idea, but there is not a lot to do on a ranch in the least populated of the lower 48 states if you have no livestock. Needing some action and observing the folks wearing bolos, they decided to start an online store — the first and only that would deliver custom, made-to-order bolos. So Rocky Mountain Western was born. And it grew.
Well, it seems they missed the grand kids and U of Florida Gator football so they moved back to the Southeast. They started a second business in leather supplies — like cords, belting, sheet goods etc — a strategy which the B-school types would call backward integration. This business grew to be much larger than Rocky Mountain Western. So almost ten years ago, to simplify things, they put their first love, Rocky Mountain Western, up for sale. I bought it and my nephew and I flew to Atlanta, rented a mini-van, loaded all of Rocky in the back and drove it home to New Vernon, New Jersey.
So that’s how Rocky Mountain Western came to be located in a place where, on a clear day and from a high point on the Appalachians, you can see the Freedom Tower in Manhattan.
