Some of my first attempts at sheridan carving

[bebah]

I hope I am getting this in the Sheridan carving section sorry if I messed up.

These are some of my first attempts at Sheridan carving. Saddle still not fininshed.

Bebah

[BearMan]

Hi,

Looks pretty good so far. Practice, practice, practice! The only advice I would give is, find some good examples of carving that You really like, & practice that Makers style, until You can imitate it Very closely. Then, create Your own style. Here is a site you might find a good style:

http://www.iilg.net/scrapbook/index.html Good luck, & keep up the good work! Ed

I hope I am getting this in the Sheridan carving section sorry if I messed up.

These are some of my first attempts at Sheridan carving. Saddle still not fininshed.

Bebah

[BearMan]

Here are a couple more site I just know You'll like. http://www.westernfolklife.org/site1/batr/...eak_contest.php

http://www.clintfay.com/

I hope I am getting this in the Sheridan carving section sorry if I messed up.

These are some of my first attempts at Sheridan carving. Saddle still not fininshed.

Bebah

[Randy Cornelius]

You know that is really not that bad. But here are a few suggestions to improve. First work on your decortive cuts. Bevel out from the flower center. you can do this with other tools but they do make a flower center beverler that really works good. Also try coming up from the center of the flower up the peddle with a camofloge tool with some light marks that will give it depth along with the flower center tool. Also use the end of a smoth veiner to make stops where the lines go into the center of the flower that forms the peddles. I will try to remember to post some pictures of what I am talking about later on. Keep up the good work.

Randy

[D.A. Kabatoff]

Bebah,

carving looks pretty good for your first attempt... carving aside, you may consider moving your rear rigging dee forward about 2 inches... if it hangs straight down from that position you may have a rodeo on your hands. If your counting on the connecting strap from the rear cinch to the front cinch pulling it forward, you may have the leading edge of the rear cinch digging in instead of the cinch laying flat on the belly.

Darc

[electrathon]

Excetant for a start!

My input: 1-Practice on the decorative cuts (I really have a lot of trouble with these too). 2-Loose the pear shader and get a thumbprint tool. Sheridan does not use a pear shader, but a thumbpring instead. You will have far more distinct shading will happen with the correct tool.

[bebah]

Bebah,

carving looks pretty good for your first attempt... carving aside, you may consider moving your rear rigging dee forward about 2 inches... if it hangs straight down from that position you may have a rodeo on your hands. If your counting on the connecting strap from the rear cinch to the front cinch pulling it forward, you may have the leading edge of the rear cinch digging in instead of the cinch laying flat on the belly.

Darc

Hey Darc,

Thanks for the response. Actually I think the layout is correct. This saddle is a bit under 25". It's for an Arab. So, if you are used to looking at quarter horse saddles, my rear rigging would look like a bucking strap. I'm kind of an old school rider. I always have the rear cinch loose. I know many riders keep them pretty tight. The front sinch rigging is full double. So, it affords me some adjustment from horse to horse. I have an old Circle Y that is rigged like this and it has made the saddle fit more of my horses.

Mine should be considerably stronger than the Circle Y rigging. I hope ! Thanks again.

Bebah

[TomSwede]

Hi Bebah! This is why we have the show off or critique my work section. Just post into the one of those two who suits your need and the forces behind the board will sort out the post to right category later on. If you wanna post questions about stuff or so then it'd be wise to post directly into whatever category that suits your need best to get the maximum interest from the right people when they use the view new posts function wich is what most people do.

I'm no expert on sheridan but looks pretty good to me. Nice saddle too.

Tom

[colttrainer]

Bebah

I am no carver but looks good to me. Having trained horse for 30 odd years I have to agree with Darc, that rear D is to far back, old school rideror not that flank cinch is supposed to be up againts their belly, keeps feet, branches out but main pupose is to keep the saddle locked down in position.

Al