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cowboy bill

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    greenfield. mo.
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    raising, training, (retired pretty much from showing), performance quarter horses. , do a little bit and spur making, make some chaps, chinks, and strap goods, mostly to satisfy myself!?? want to begin learning saddle making if i oculd justify the price for materials!

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    leather work, tooling, saddle and tack making.
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  1. I have a good used reined cow horse saddle an old saddle making friend made some years back. I want to remove the latigo lining on the fenders. I figure I can cut the stitching (nylon) with a scapel, but wondering just how hard will it be to pull the latigo liner off, glued on no doubt with the best of glue!!! It is a using saddle and not worried about the remaining stitching holes! Thanks
  2. what is involved with replacing a horn on a cutter that had been cut off? thanks
  3. thanks for the repl;y. thats about what i figured. Bill
  4. got a pair of oak w/ galvanize metal cover to be here in a few days. thinking i want to cover with rawhide. i guess make template out of paper in two parts? i do know rawhide will be soaked. what should use to lace? any other help will be much appreciated.
  5. well what i did was simply make a round hole on the flap, sewed a rounfd piece of rawhide to encircle the hole, made a piece of latigo for string to go thru the hole and put one overhand know it it to fasten. i don't have a snap setter and don't recall how i put them on the belt i made?? must be gettin old!???
  6. any ideas for latch for flap on hoof pick holder. O K i admit a simple snap would be less anal. want some simple and little different. appreciate any help. BILL
  7. trust me few people are broker than myself. just saying with a $25 tax number, give yourself a name, ie joe's leather works, a person can go shop on line for suppliers...., example, wickett and craig showed overstock on quality bellies for $9 each thats what about $1.20 per ft?? lots of items can be made out of good skirtin bellies. i have to shop because i can't and won't support inflated prices if i can help it, i realize everyone in business has to make a profit but..................... BILL
  8. tandy pricing?????? i'm gonna open a gas station, my price on gas will be $20 per gal. pay me a $35 membership and your price will be $18 per gal. i will have monthly sales, gas then will be $19.50 per gal on sorry crap gas with water in it. if you pay the membership and buy $2,000 worth of gas per year i figure you will save $1000 per year, thus saving many dollars over the cost of the membership! also i am selling stock to my new company, any investors out there????? i better watch out, i might get banned here? sorry Tandy. old and ornery, BILL
  9. i have found that with a state tax number a dealer price is usually pretty easy to get unless like you say ya ina protected area. you might check with " u braid" they supply the supples to makers, and if you don't want to make the halter yourself, i', sure they can supply a huge list of people glad to sell to you and hopefully at wholesale price. two other people and myself went together and coop. i have the tax number, get on te computer and do the leg work to obtain companies to fulfill our needs ( sounds kinda erotic but it ain't! LOL). wickett and crain, weaver, several high end felt pad co, nettles stirriups, eyc etc, i don;t care if a person is a "hobbist" or what, it irritates me to see what tandy and others charge for most of their stuff, yea their prices are a joke. my $02 worth, but with the devalue of the dollar its worth maybe 1 peso or 1/2 euro! LOL BILL
  10. thanks for the reply, i figured i could do that but i never had that problem before. BILL
  11. can i take a wood galvanized metal covered blank and tighten the bolt to get neck down to 2 1/2 in size from the standard 3 inches ?? thanks BILL
  12. i agree with watching for their "sales", but after dealing with them and another local supplier, i found basically that their "retail" price is actuallu like 50% higher than actual retail and their club price or price with tax numer is a bout "normal" retail. pretty disgusting, its hard to compare quality of leather and therefore their price, check out their prices on say a basic item like pure neatsfoot oil and then see what you can buy it for anywhere else! i would look at checking on over stocked leather like at wicket and craig for instance. also this foreign crab leather isn't worth buying, (in my humble opinion) just like sorry chinese tools and hardware. BILL
  13. without standing on a political soapbox might i just say::: i think all items for sale, be it a saddle, pad, bit, etc etc, the seller and or maker should STATE what it is made of!!!! then the buyer can make a decision (informed) as to what we are puttin our money in. i realize at my age good tack will outlast me but i hate CRAP!! i realize the strickly hobby rider might choose to buy on price and probably that decision comes also from not having a good knowlege of the difference between quality and Chinese CRAP! ALSO, please write me in for some political office (any) that will pay me a stupid salary !! LOL BILL
  14. yep, the dog that bit me. i have to wonder if a store's retail price for a gal of neatsfoot oil is $33 and their so called wolesale price is like $28 and i can buy it anywhere else retail for that and cheaper, i have to wonder how they price everything else????kinda like the store that marked everythin UP for their sale so they can mark it DOWN when the sale starts !?? thanks for your reply, BILL
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