greg gomersall

Fairly smooth and clean. Your rigging looks to be hanging fairly low and in relation to where your blevins are, they will probably interfere with each other. Your presser foot lines on your skirts need to be rubbed out a little and it appears like the low spot in your seat is back against the cantle. Greg

Jon check out Hamley's website, they have been making quite a few again. Please keep in mind the stock thickness on these new ones is thinner but the basic shape is the same. Greg

I'm a proud member of PETA " People Eating Tastey Animals". Greg

Exotics are neet, I have used gator on a few saddle seats. nice stuff to work with but very pricey. the nicest most unusaul stuff I have used was sealskin. I came accross a huge leporad seal skin 3 or 4 years ago and jumped thru a lot of hoops with the US Fur and Feathers dept. A 100 years ago the top of the line chaps from the west coast saddleries were sealskin. I built a set of chaps and wrist cuffs from this hide which cost me $165.00. I put another $1,600.00 worth of sterling on these chaps but it was very worth while. I sold the one of a kind chaps for $10,000.00. God I love Liberty, Freedom and Capitalism. Greg

Tom quite often when you buff things you end up with a "wire edge" that folds over on the cutting edge. You are correct that you need to sharpen or polish the inside of the hole. Rub some beeswax on a thread then apply rouge to the thread and run it thru the hole on the groover. Now tie each end of the thread to something solid and your hands will be free to work your groover blade back and forth sharpening the inside of the hole. hope this helps. Greg

They are a chain stitch machine. Greg

Seigal's generaly carry horse fronts which are sides from the flank forward so they are generly smaller than the average cowhide. They are tan, cream and black only and 2 to 2 1/2 oz. They are tanned by White's Tanning in the Toronto Ontario region. Kevin All of the U.S. horse processing plants are closed. Cavel was the last plant operating, they were in Ill. and when the state passed legislation which forced them to close they appealed to the Supreme Court on the grounds that state law was interfering with inter-state commerce which is federal jurisdiction. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Our current house of Rep. is working on a law that will make it a criminal act to sell or transport a horse for slaughter which would shut down the last option we have of exporting live horses for slaughter. If this bothers you please take the time to contact your congressman and ask them to at least make sure we have a plan in place for dealing with unwanted horses before they legislate away our main disposal option. If you feel horses should not be slaughtered please make sure you are putting your money where your mouth is and contribute regulary to pay for the feed and care of the horses you don't want to see slaughtered. I'll get of my soap box now. Greg

I am fluent in 2 languages English and when I bugger up I am also proficent in Profanity. Greg

Tony there are quite a few differences to the machine besides the gear drive. Are there other photos , it looks like it could be a #4 instead of a #6. Greg

Tony quite interesting. What is the serial # on that machine? Do you know any more about the reasoning behind the gear drive over the regular belt drive. I have seen alot of Pearson's but never this confiruration. thanks Greg

Might be Henry VeenHoven. If it is regarding a pearson by any chance please PM me Greg

Grind or file it off. Greg

Elton is right the only thing sticking out from the bottom of your your needle bar is a needle. Please read your owner's manual closely if you need more clarification. this skeg works like the pricker feet did on alot of the old machines did, to help seat the stitch and yes it can cause problems when starting or turning, your machine will not even notice it missing if your grind it off. I use to have a 205 Adler that had a groove in the needle plate for the bottom stitch to lay in as it moved back, this can be filled in ( i used silver solder) which will help push the bottom sticth up in as well on these machines. Greg

Jon smooth claasy rig. the only thing that jumps out at me is the rear billets. your flow is growing downwards whille on your choker it's growing up. An old visalia hand told me a couple years ago that flowers grow from the ground up and so should your carving. Once again great rig. Greg

I cut all of mine after the ground work is complete. Due to the fact I use an all leather ground seat I have to make sure my seat is completely dry before cutting. Greg

Waddy I have a couple of the local saddle retailers that I get saddle boxes from. Cost me nothing, might check around your area. greg

Ebay You cannot put an all leather ground seat in this type of tree properly cause when you spike your bottom piece ahead to create some tension you will increase the rock of the tree and when you spike the seat area sideways to create tension you will actually pull the bars together. Greg

Latest info I have is Sieving Engraving 2706 Cindy Drive, Imperial Mo. 63052 (636) 296-7408

I'm not sure Steve I will check..Harper's in Vegas is who has made all of mine and they are good. greg

Sieving's engraving is who I believe made yours steve. Greg

You actualy take your cheekpiece (5/8 wide if usung 5/16 ferrule) fold in half while fairly damp to form a u shaped trough. You then glue a filler piece inside the u. carefully cut a fine groove with a knife point up each side close to the edge. Now hand sew in this line with your stitching coming out in the same line on the opposite side ( using this method no stitching is visable on the round when you are finished). After sewing up to where your buckle will bee you trim the filler flush with the cheek piec e and get fairly wet pull this thru your rounder working down in hole size as far as you can ( use paste saddle soap as a lubricant). After rounding allow to dry for a day or so then slide your ferrules on, then use a ferrule crimper to slightly crimp the ends of the ferruls so the do not slide around. you can no re wet the end where the buckle goes flatten it out and install your buckles as you normally would. round headstalls are very labor intensive but as far as class goes nothing else comes close. Somewhere in the gallery section I have posted a picture of one of the many I have made over the last few years. Hope this helps. Greg

Bruce on my lining of a plate rig I always have the smooth side next to the tree, skirt and horse. Even do this on a roughout so I have smooth leather rather than roughout touching the horse. the smooth will absorb sweat slower than the rough. Where she has the over hang of the leather on the back of the rear dee she can now stitch right up to the dee. Greg

Some of Dale's recent saddles also have few stems and are mostly leaves and flowers BUT they flow together now as they did then. Good Luck. Greg

The most consistant way to go is using sewing machine belting. Not cheap but making your own is time consuming as well. Panhandle leather in Amarillo keeps a selection of different diameters. Greg

Ted the saddle looks pretty clean considering the number under your belt. It is the layout of the carving that In my opinion needs work. It should have a start and an end and flow thru out the pattern. You have a layout of seperate flowers joining themselves not flowing together. It is tough drawing, I've been doing it over 20 years and still struggle with the layout. Yes it does get easier the more you do, but then there is more you notice and it sometimes seems like an uphill battle. Don't get discouraged just study the photos of the real masters and try to glean from these to get more flow. Greg