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Is this what you want, Chuck? This is part of a post from a member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, three of whom resigned this week over Musk's new moderation policies: The 'new' Twitter has also 'refused to remove child porn': https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/amp/

What dye are you using? People have commented on Fiebing's USMC black dye not taking well. You can buff until your arms are about to fall off, and it will still be bleeding into the rag.

Yeah, Tim and I may be at each other's throats over politics, but he does very nice work... Tim, shortly after seeing this, I saw a post on FB that looked very similar, and wondered if someone was copying your work. I pulled them up side by side, and the difference in tooling made it very obvious which work was yours! I really can't post it here, as I don't have permission, but remember those tooling tips Stohlman used to do, showing good tooling vs. bad? The one on FB was the poster child for what not to do...

Cool! Good luck with the project!

LOL! I've been sewing a lot with artificial sinew lately, and the stuff is a total PITA with the way it tends to split apart. My solution was to buy the cheapest possible beeswax candle at a local craft show the other day! Buying bulk beeswax was just too expensive, as it was always in the quantities you'd need for making candles, not waxing a couple of feet of thread! I find just running the candle along the length of the thread is good enough for waxing it.

The pieces I see there look like they are from an English riding saddle. Do Australian stock saddles have horns? Can't say I've ever seen one up close, though I did watch The Man From Snowy River many moons ago.

Here's what I do - do you have MS Paint on your computer? Unless you have a Mac, you probably do. Send the picture to your computer. Open it in Paint. In the top menu bar you will see an option to Resize. Click on that, and select a figure of about 500 pixels. If you select for height, the other dimension resizes automatically to keep the photo in proportion. Save the photo. If you have some reason to save the original 1.6 mB photo give the smaller one a new name.

Good luck with your project! We all have to learn at some time, and there are lots of experienced saddle makers on this board to help you out!

Belt blanks are too wide to make leashes. You use the strap cutter to cut them to the size you want.

As a German shepherd person, who's taken part in Schutzhund, I'm familiar with the breed!

Very nice! Yup, a malingator needs a sturdy collar with a handle! Is Josie a mal too? I like your edges - great job! Looks like you used edge paint?

This is what my workspace looked like when I first started crafting: Then I moved...really need to post a photo of my current workspace, which is many times the size!

Too funny! You guys are great!

One summer, I was working as an outdoor education teacher in a park in downtown Toronto where there had been a number of rapes. One woman had died. When I finished my teaching for the day, I had to walk through the park, alone, on my way to another school where I was studying to get my French as a Second Language teaching certificate. Needless to say, I was not very comfortable doing this. I had an old WWII gas mask bag that I used as my carryall when teaching. I also had a hunting knife with a wooden handle, and a 6 1/2 inch blade. The handle made it look like maybe it was something other than a knife. It could have passed for a gardening tool. It fitted nicely in a leather sheath, and was mostly hidden inside a pocket in the bag. I probably would have been in trouble with the cops if they had ever stopped me, but they never did. It was one of the very few times in my life where I'd felt the need to carry a weapon.

Before our ancestors figured out how to knap flint, they made spears out of sharpened sticks that had been hardened in a fire. That looks like a pretty useful weapon you made her, and no one's going to complain about her carrying it!

There's still a few good ones out there!

I found that wetting the leather before dyeing would help in getting a more even coat. Before I found that out, here's what the FIRST coat looked like! The finished product looked a LOT better...

The casing has to be just right. Too dry, and the figure won't have good definition, and your cuts won't be deep enough. Too wet, and the cuts will tend to close up. It takes practice to get it just right.

I got a large number of stamps at a pawn shop a couple of years ago. When I finished sorting them out, I found I had a number of duplicates, plus some I knew I'd never use (some picture stamps). I listed them on the board here by number and manufacturer, and said I'd sell them at X dollars individually or X dollars for the lot. There were no pictures - if you wanted to know what a stamp looked like, you had to look up the number on Tandy. Most of the stamps WERE Tandy, and those that weren't were Tandy clones, so I could say 'looks like Tandy stamp number xxx.' Someone on the board bought the whole lot. Actually, I had a couple of offers, as I'd priced them quite cheaply, just wanting to get back what I'd paid at the pawn shop. https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/85348-stamps-for-sale/?tab=comments#comment-578870

Garyak, then you're going to have to get Bear Naked: https://www.bearnakedwonders.com/pages/store-locations They have several suppliers in the States.

Drumhack, do you have Microsoft Paint on your computer? If so, it's dead simple to resize your photos! Open it in Paint. Select "resize" from the menu at the top. Select 'pixels' and choose a size somewhere between 500 and 800. You only have to enter the one dimension - the other will resize automatically to keep the picture in proportion. Looking forward to seeing if we can figure out what went wrong!

Chuck, I think its worth is in its history with the family. Doubt he'll part with it. It really doesn't look in bad shape, but yeah, any rigging would need replacement if it was going to be used. I used to hang out with a member of Canada's Governor Generals Horse Guards Calvary Squadron. He told me his newest piece of equipment was a curb bit dated 1916. So, tack and saddles can last and still be functional if well taken care of. http://www.gghgsociety.org/cavalry/

If I were going to use it, I'd also check the fleece lining to make sure it's in good enough condition to protect the back of the horse. Not so big a concern with a western saddle, due to the thick saddle cloths they used, but better safe than sorry! Saddle sores take a long time to heal. And the horn definitely needs a bit of attention - maybe replacing the stitching would be enough to fix it.

Well, even if he's not coming back, I'm curious to know what y'all think about restoring the saddle! Always hoping to learn something new. I rode English for many years, and one of the saddles I used regularly belonged to my instructor. I have no idea how old it was, but I'm guessing at least 40 or 50 years, as it dated from his days in the cavalry. It had been well cared for and was in excellent shape.

Won't let me upload the last one, as I've exceeded the number of allowed MB. Maybe the OP can do it now that I've explained how to reduce the size. I could have made them even smaller by reducing the number of pixels further. Even 500 pixels gives a nice sized clear picture, suitable for posting on the internet. Right-click on the photo to get the option to open it in Paint (or whatever other app you choose.) And you don't have to give the picture a new title unless you want to save the original photo at its original size. Just save the smaller one and it will over-write the original. It would be interesting to see what the saddle would look like after a good cleaning and treatment with some leather balm/NFO. You'd definitely want to replace the stirrup leathers and rigging for safety's sake, if you were going to use it, but the seat and skirts might be salvageable with some TLC>