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    Folks, let's keep this leather related, and all the political opinions to ourselves. Otherwise we'll see yet another thread locked.

    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

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    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

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    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

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    I have what some call a Pearson. Made in UK. The flywheel reads British United Machinery Co. Leicester England. The John (something) of Montreal Sole Agents. Anyway it's a big honkin machine powered by "moi", either by flywheel or treadle. Best ever for stitching fleece to saddle skirting. The finite stich control allows me to reuse the original stitching holes for a nice clean job. Someone painted it brick red.

    I restore these and have on that I painted brick red as well. I never thought I'd ever hear of another one painted that colour. NOW I will have to go paint mine lemon yellow just to be different I guess.

    Cheers,

    Henry

    Toronto, Ontario

    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.

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    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

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    Family of the great saddle making legend Wilford Lewis. Definately know their business. No longer covers trees with rawhide due to not being able to keep a good rawhide man employed so just went to fiberglass covered only. One could always add a rawhide cover themselves if it were a big concern.

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

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    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

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