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My wife talked me into building a saddle that was fully tooled. I built one similar to this one but not as much tooling.

The saddle is built with herman oak leather on a Bowden 15 1/2 tree. I used Tandy ecoflow antique with no blocking.

The seat insert is chap leather with all other black leather as latigo leather to resist impact damage.

The conchos are actual 45 lc shells cut down.

The seat insert is in the shape of a spade with 2 aces carved into the cantel seat. Now I can say I am sitting on a pair of Aces

The problem with a custom saddle you also need custom saddle bags, head stall, reins, riffle scabbard, holsters....oh no it never ends,,,chaps..

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Wow you and your wife are set up, very nice work.

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Good Grief what a project ,that is great work,I hope you shoot those .45's that's my favorite calibre,I wish I could spend a lot more time shooting.You are a true artisan Sir.Thanks for sharing!

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That is absolutely unbelievable. I love it.

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So awesome! (golfclap)

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Wait a minute a hobby I think not your a pro that's amazing work

Josh

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Very, very nice.

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:You_Rock_Emoticon: that is some beautiful work!

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SWEET!

In the next few days I will be posting a "Art of the Cowboy Makers" contest.

You should consider entering that saddle. Trophy Buckles, cash....

Casey

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Ron,

Hmmm..... A creative theme saddle....maybe a little American Chopper twist (theme saddles instead of bikes). You should have included the photo of the seat from your web site to show off the spade seat insert and the pair of aces better.

Regards,

Ben

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Fantastic! Good layout!

Art

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Yes, ditto all the above. Very nice work. I really like the finish. Think I might have to try some of that Ecoflo stuff. Is it fairly water proof once dry or does it need to be sealed with something?

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Holy cow, dude...I'd have to buy a prettier horse just for that saddle!! (Not really, but that's incredible!!!)

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Hi Ben

I should have added the seat photo, here is one as well as the headstall.

There hare a lot of saddle makers out there so I thought that I will be different and do themes for them.

Kamloops B.C. has a cowboy festival every year, this year they have an amateur saddle maker competition that I was invited to attend so I think this saddle as well as my wife's saddle will get entered

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Now that's different. I like it. Very nice

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Ben,

Here's the post I refered to earlier in this thread: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?s...ic=14419&hl=

It is titled "Who wants to win this TROPHY BUCKLE"

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