greg gomersall

This thread is in the off topic catagory and if you read the desription of what this covers in the table of contents Pete posted his opinion in the right spot. People do not have to read a thread if they choose not to. Having THREAD NAZI's is reminesent of burning books and those kind of things. This is AMERICA, we are allowed to disagree and do not have to be mind numbing robots as stated by our Sectretary of State. Greg

Did you by chance happen to donate any of your beautiful bulbs to the Bill Clinton Presidential Message Parlor/Library? Kevin I hear the tour guide is Harmonica Lewinsky. Greg

Darcy if this horse is as downhill as the top photo seems to show was there considerable bridging when you set the varios trees on him? Greg

Has both skirts and jockeys. the jockey's are a hair bigger than the skirts. Greg

Darcy is the horse standing square in the first photo? if he is he is alot higher in the croup than anywhere else on his back and anything you put on him is gonna run forward into the shoulders. In the second photo the protruding tissue looks considerably larger on the near side over the off. Greg

My apology from this morning which got moved to the bottom of the vegan thread was part of an APRIL FOOL'S DAY joke. I stand by my original comments. If you choose to remove THIS post please delete my account at the same time. Greg

The apology I posted this morning which got moved to the bottom of the vegan thread was posted as an APRIL FOOL'S DAY post. I stand by my original comments. Greg

Regarding my comments on the Vegan leather thread the other day I would like to apologize for my rude, insensetive comments. Greg

Richard for braiding use the graphs in Robert Woolery's book. photocopy them and turn them over looking at the graph from the back side. As for the skife cut the handle off and silver solder it on the other end, works great. i am not left handed but i did have a guy work for me that was and he was quite creative at making things work for him. Greg

Barra if you get near sw Idaho you are more than welcome here for a while. Greg

Not sure on the june 27 thing. it would more like be workorder 6127 or something like that. The cantle is what is refered to as a comfort cantle, so with that and a few other style things like the horn, swell and cantle height I really believe my first date estimate is more realistic. As for value it would be worth what you could get for it. For a collectable saddle to bring the big money it needs to be in Pristine original condition, or by a handful of very sought after makers in good original condition, or to have provanence documenting its history with a significant person or event. Greg

Maybe the silence from Jerry and Dave reflects the fact that they realize they have lost all credibilty they ever had and do not have a clue about trying to rebuild it? Greg

That is the name of the saddlemaker who made the saddle in Porter's shop. You will find these tags on lots of Porter saddles. Judging by the style of things I would think your saddle was late 40's to early 50's. Greg

Karl i don't have a manual but I do have a page from an old BUSMC catalog on the pilot. give me your address and I will post you a copy. If you come accross a manual i would sure like to buy a photocopy from you. Greg

stuff i have is 8/9 oz. and 6/7 oz. If sheridan is sold out good luck finding any as tennessee tanning quit producing it a year ago. i pulled a Harwood and stocked up. Greg

Henry yellow has already been done. One of the Pearson's I bought from Don King before he passed away was painted bright yellow with black trim. It was actually a well done job and looked very classy. Greg And john visser had a green one a few years ago as well.

No i havn't Ben. I hope I enough hoarded to last me several years. Greg P.S. give Luke and Vandy a call at Sheridan i know they got in on the close out and had some in stock.

I have been using a veg tanned pig to line my back cinches , billets, martingales etc of 10 or 12 years now. i like the way it handles the sweat. Tennessee Tanning was the tanner but they quit doing it last year due to the fact it wasn't a big seller. I managed to buy a large quanity of it from them dirt cheap when i discovered they were discontinuing it. I also make some headstalls, slobber straps spur straps etc. out of it. On these I line them with regular strap leather just to increase the strength a little. It will case up and set stamp quite nice. Greg

Jeremiah's might work in the biker world real good. they are kinda like silicon implants. HA-HA. Greg

Darcy i was brought up being told that a rope strap should be designed to fail, yet more and more people seem to want them stoughter. If you are attaching the strap to the fork with a screw just above a bag punch slit you can skive the rope strap down where the screw is so that hopefully the hole will tear out in a bad situation. Greg

very nice dave. greg

ryano if you come up with a source for the 331 needle system needles (landis1/pearson) other than schmetz please let me know. Thanks Greg

I have been making my high mount breast collar dee and buckle tab portion in one piece under my conco for 10 years or so now just because I hated that lump under the front jockey that always packed full of hair and dirt. Greg

would it not be kind of hard to rawhide one with the strainer already a part of the tree? Greg

Greg, The one that looked like Bob's only worse was the double ended. Tne one with lead was single ended and made of lignum vitae. It didn't make sense to me to add that much lead with that heavy wood. Glad you like yours. Regards, Ben Ben in one of your posts you mentioned you had Bob Dellis's tools. I remember Bob showing me his stamping stick and he was pretty proud of the piece of rawhide covering the end. It was a chunk of elephant rawhide and he was pretty sure he wasn't goona be around long enough to wear it out. that was probably 10 years ago. Greg