MikeRock

https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/catalog/item-detail/09-1050s-2-3/kipskin-leather-veg-tanned/pr_3804/cp_/shop-now/leather/veg-tan-natural/kipskin Same stuff with another name. I had to look up Napa and found it included calf skin as well as kid or lamb leather. God bless

No added color needed, in my opinion at least. The native yellow of the leather says all that needs saying. God bless

Morton's toe..... Now I know. My second toes are 3/8" longer than the great toes on both feet. It has caused me some grief with steel toed boots which I wear almost constantly. Now I have more to read!! God bless

Thanks Buzzard, There is a copy on flea bay for about half of what the 76 edition goes for, without the leather cover. God bless

Is the 1976 edition that much better than the 1951 edition?? God bless

I just measured my DeSantis and the slots are a scant 5/16" x 1-5/8". Both holsters are the same. God bless.

This is as close as I can get.

Sorry, I missed the part about the logo being on another, similar saddle. Yours must be a Georgia made one, very much pre 1970.

Thanks!!

Just let Duck Duck Go go to work. Fascinating, and to the point. Your saddle dates to 1970 or newer. My neighbor in Keystone, SD had a few of them, brand new in 1972. I thought that looked familiar! Here's the info from http://forums.horsecity.com/topic/47091886-old-bona-allen-info-and-help-please/ Bonaparte Allen began his saddlery in Buford, Georgia in 1873. When he died in the 1920's he left the company to his sons. Tandy Leather Co. bought the company in 1970 and moved it to Texas. I see by the maker's mark on the "frog" of the rear housing that your saddle was built in Fort Worth, so it's a 1970 model or newer. I have no idea of how Tandy's numbers run. Last I knew, Bona Allen is now owned by Foxwood Manufacturing of Olney, Illinois. Not sure when the company changed hands, but back in 1985 I was going to be a road man for TexTan (a subsidiary of Tandy) and they had a line of nice cowboy boots carrying the Bona Allen name. It was explained to me that they were no longer making the Bona Allen saddles but wanted to keep the name alive and under their ownership. As it turned out, I didn't take the job with TexTan. Sorry I can't be of much help.

You can also email the photos to yourself and save them. When you email it will ask what size, with various options. Works great for resizing to publish. On the round logo you show. Can you read the date? It says 'established 1878 (or 3)'...... I think the bottom word is 'service'. That saddle looks SO familiar, I have to go out to the shop and look at one in particular. Can you read the lettering in the middle? FS, FB??? God bless

Dwight, this is the best photo I could find. I will be using my SAA, or a repro by Uberti. My original is pretty work and only the 5" bbl. I have the 7.5" Uberti Cattleman coming. Went to your site, or tried, got a 404 error.

Hi all, I am trying to find a pattern for the holster that Ella, played by Olivia Wilde, wore in the Sci Fi movie, Cowboys and Aliens. It is a cross draw, integral with the belt. God bless, and Thanks Mike

Yin, I didn't see any posts below this original one. If the Stohlman Holster Book is available I'd sure like it. God bless Mike Rock

I wonder if you could use the plastic like on horse collar pads? That sure helps heal sores. And it helps prevent them in the first place.

Nicely done, good idea. I have a question, how readily do the pencils/pens come out? It looks like there's interference in either direction? Or is that just an optical delusion?? Cool Buick..man......

I like the curve in human belts, it matches the cone shape of the body above the hips. In harnesses for horses, the strain takes the curve out eventually......so does the sweat help too.

I had a farming accident several years back and when they were done stitching me up I asked for the cautery. He gave me half a dozen........no issue with contamination on the working end!! They are the same darned tool, relabled.

If you have doctor type friends, especially Emergency Room types, ask them for their used CAUTERIES. That is the medical thread zapper used to cauterize/heat seal small arteries and bleeding stuff. If you are in a city with a busy ER you will get a dozen or more a night.

Noob........I like that idea!! A whole host of cowboy heroes over the years..... Noob........I like that idea!! A whole host of cowboy heroes over the years.....

Here ya go.......more numbers. This is from Hartley and they have them in stock.

Cool thing is you can remove the vertical arm by just loosening one lock nut and backing out the pointy screw. Downside is the top is springy for mallet work unless you lower it all the way and have stacks of old magazines under the table to help absorb shock. Been there, computer is sitting on it as I type. Good deal on that table and drafting unit. Mine is a K&E from 1969.

This will show the way.... http://www.cowboyway.com/What/WhatAreChinks.htm https://www.americancowboy.com/people/types-chaps-28214

Hilldale, and others, Eons ago in the mid-1950's, in Boy Scouts, we had a great craftsman scoutmaster. He had us making leather stamps out of large wood spikes and carriage bolts. We'd use his hoard of metal files and some punches and chisels to make a basic form, then refine it. Stamping leather, the soft spikes were plenty hard and gave us a start on a fascinating hobby. On some of his tools, then some of ours, he'd use cyanide to harden them, then later Kasenit. He'd help touch up little features, was a wizard with a file. I still have some of those tools upstairs.... I believe there is an article on his work in an old issue of Boy's Life magazine.

Keith Palmer out of South Dakota is considered the expert on that machine! glenn Thank you for that one. Mike