cincolittles

JW, Looks real good! I'm getting to were I like the all roughout more and more, especially down here in south texas were all we have are plenty of thorns to scratch up a good saddle. Have you ever made one with rawhide swells and a pencil roll? I have an old saddle that I'm going to try working on that has bleached rawhide on the swells and the cantle. I have made many knife sheaths out of rawhide and really like the natural rawhide more than the bleached, have always wondered what that saddle might look like with natural rawhide rather than bleached, but it can sure be tough to work with. Again, great job on these saddles. Sincerely, Stacy Little

Great looking saddle.

Looks Good!

I have a saddle similar to this one, but in better shape. The tooling on your saddle is also similar to mine. Mine has a makers stamp on the back of the cantle and on the seat, the latter being harder to read, this is probably where yours was stamped and is now wore off from use. My saddle was made by S.D. Myres and has the original Sweetwater Texas stamp, which places it between late 1800's and 1916 when he moved to El Paso.

We have and old saddle tree that we stripped the leather off of that originally looked like that saddle, more or less. My Grandaddy said they ordered it from Sears and Roebuck, back in the 30's or so, he use to break horses in it since you were kinda glued to the seat with those wide swells. No telling how many stores carried that style of saddle.

Good looking saddles! Thank you for serving our country, and may God Bless you and your family and bring ya home soon!

That's a really good looking saddle. I happened upon your website before I found this forum, several months back, I was impressed with the quality. I am thinking about repairing an old saddle that I've had since I was in junior high. It has no markings on it, but I believe it to be an old Shirley Brown saddle, this is according to my brother-in-law who had the saddle before me. It's not in real terrible shape, but it does have a cracked tree (they used to rope bulls in it), there is no leather left on the horn, and the sweat-leathers need replacing, the rest of it just needs a good cleaning and some minor repairs. I may have to pick your brain sometime, I have done a little bit of leather work since I was a kid, from braiding and platting to rawhide knife sheaths with braided edge lacing, and some carving and stamping, and am pretty good about being able to put something back together after I've taken it apart. But this will be my first real big leather project, and figured it was a good place to start with my old saddle. Anyways, I've probably rambled enough here, just wanted to say great work!

Very good lookin saddle. ~Stacy