Weatherly Tree Saddle

[D.A. Kabatoff]

Here's a saddle I finished up yesterday that was built on a Weatherly style tree with 26" tapaderos.

[Cobra Steve]

Hi D.A. Very nice! Great job! Steve

[CWR]

Darcy your workmanship and attention to detail is is incredible. I may never get to that point, but it gives me a target.

Thanks for posting,

CW

[gtwister09]

Darcy,

WOW! Now those are some taps! Great details all around...including the fork and horn area. Ditto to the quality of workmanship and details.

Regards,

Ben

[Tkleather1]

Great lookin work. I love the braid on the fork cover very nice touch. I do have a question however. are the jockeys one peice? I dont see a seam inder the frog. again very nice work.

Tim

TK-Leather

[Traveller]

Exquisite!

[TroyWest]

Real nice saddle Darcy. Excellent work.

[bruce johnson]

The bar is raised again. I don't know what else to say.

[D.A. Kabatoff]

thanks for the comments everyone. Tim, the rear housing is one piece...I had a butt end leftover from one of the hides and it was large enough to get the jockeys out in one piece. If you are using two seperate jockeys, you can almost make that seam between them invisible by doing a lap skive between the two jockeys.

Darcy

[steve mason]

Darc;

again you have made a VERY nice clean balanced classy looking saddle.

Steve

[jwwright]

Very nice Darcy! JW

[AndyKnight]

Awsome work Darc!! hows the shoulder? I think that I am glad you didn't have that at Kamloops

Edited June 9, 2010 by AndyKnight

[alb]

I wish I could see this saddle in person.

It's gorgeous.

If you don't mind my asking, what weight leathers did you use in the skirts and also the back jockey?

Ann

[D.A. Kabatoff]

Hi Andy,

the shoulder's good enough for working! Wish I could have been in Kamloops to see you and Ryan's saddles, I heard they were pretty nice!

Ann,

the skirts and rear jockeys came from a 13-15oz side of Hermann Oak leather, because of where in the hide they came from, the skirts were probably around 14oz(around the middle of the hide)range and the rear jockeys were probably 15-16oz(from the tip of the butt).

Darcy

[Ben]

Darcy,

That saddle is absolutely beautiful!!! Thanks for posting pictures and always sharing with us great pointers.

Ben

[Bob]

Nice work Darcy.

[steveh]

darcy,

outstanding professional work

steve

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

Darc, as always, neat, clean, and well balanced! Very pleasing to the eye. Nice Job.

Bob

[mudman]

Nice clean classy rig Darcy. Excellent work as usual.

[hidepounder]

Darcy,

I had missed this.....what a nice saddle! Great lines....everything really lays smooth and tight! Tooling looks terrific. I don't know how you guys can do that corner tooling and not mark up all the untooled leather. I'd have it all scarred up, LOL! Great taps too! Wow!

Bobby

[Sage]

Morning Darcy,

I have been looking at your saddle and I just am so impressed at your workmanship!

You are quite a talented maker.

Like I said to Steve Mason, I wish I could be the mouse in the corner and watch you make a saddle.

I truley enjoy you and all the other Makers posting works and adding some insight and tips to better a final result.

Thank you and to all !!

[ct701996]

amazing lines

[seveneves]

Wow that's one of the cleanest looking horns and cantle i've seen. Great job.

[D.A. Kabatoff]

thanks everyone for the nice words.

Darcy