Spent a little bit of time on saturday working on this - Re-made the cheyenne roll. First attempt went kinda bad so I decided to start over - Second attempt went smooth!

Not sure if you have see Dale Harwoods DVD's but he has some pretty good little tricks - One of them is to cut the bottom edge of the cantle back a little flat - That way you have to stretch the leather down and in - It puts a lot of tension on the top edge of the cantle filler so that when you go to fold the leather back to make the Cheyenne roll it wants to 'snap' into that position. It also saves cutting the little 'v' out of the cheyenne roll that you see some guys doing to get rid of the bubble that can be created there...

It's a neat trick and it really seems to help make a Cheyenne roll come out stiff.

I have found Dales DVD's to be really beneficial with Jeremiah Watts being real good too - Just in different areas - I find Jeremiahs seat fitting portion to be really helpful.

On saturday I also rough cut the rigging plates, skirts and stirrup leathers out and I actually finish cut the rigging plates Sunday morning, this weeks projects after work are to finish tooling the cantle back, and tool up the rigging plates.

I'd like to get rigging plates installed next saturday and get the skirts blocked on and finish cut as well...At that point it feels like you are getting somewhere!

These pics were just taken on my phone so not too crisp!

22/01/15 - Installed the cantle back the other night. It went on pretty good. Less 'bubbling' issues than saddle #01.

Tooling up the rigging plates right now.

Ron