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Legend maintains that Spanish Moors decorated their homes with hand-carved leather. Tooling leather was practiced widely during the middle ages and in central America during the time of the Aztecs. Leather tooling became popular among cowboys and ranchers of the "Wild West" for its ornamentation and expression of personal style. Elaborately tooled saddles helped express pride in their owners' horsemanship and identified individual possessions among cowboys with no horses of their own. It is this spirit of individuality expressed by the AMT100's striking "tooled leather" look pick guard. Herringbone binding around the edge continues the feel by suggesting hand stitching.