Mathilde1981

Thank you very much for your reply. The problem is that this horse seems to have extreme sensitive skin and reacted to lined and unlined fenders. It is not the buckles rubbing but pure contact with the leather of the fender. I have been around horses all my life and have never seen anything like it. It's almost like an allergic reaction to the leather itself. When she rides in a English saddle there are no issues. It's an Arabian gelding and trained for pleasure and horsemanship so he is never worked hard. My gut feeling was not to go with the fleece. You have underlined very nicely why. The saddle that I fitted and sold was a very nice older Champion Turf saddle. Saddle has low millage and fenders are clean and smooth. Every used saddle that leaves my store has been cleaned, looked over and repaired if necessary. I think I will talk here out of it. Hopefully she will listen.

I have customer who has purchased a used saddle from me. But because the horse seems to have very sensitive skin, she wants me to put some wool fleece on the inside of the fenders. I have never had a request like this. I was thinking of only lining the part of the fender that sits between the riders leg en the horse. In a sort of L shape and trimming down the fleece so it will not add to much bulk. And not taking it up all the way to the skirts for the same reason. So I would glue the fleece and then partly stitch over the existing stitching of the lining. My main concern is that the riders leg will no longer lay flush against the horse and she will not be happy with the alteration. So if anyone has advice/ideas I would love to hear them. Or should I just tell her that it's nog a good plan? Thanks for reading Mathilde

We only represent about 2 percent off the total equestrian sport here. Reining being the most professional and growing off all options available to people. The world has become very small because of the internet so people know what they want and where to get it. And traveling to big events in the US is much cheaper then it was.Very different then when I started over 15 years ago when people where over the moon when you had some circle y tack available.

Thank you very much! Will send you a pm. When I was browsing the web all pictures I compared the machine with where just a bit different. So I'm just not sure what I bought. Is NECCHI made good or bad? And what about the age of the machine? A friend of mine helped me picking it up and he was joking that it looked like it came from Stalin's basement lol.

I am sorry! When I get to my computer I will down scale the pictures and add them.

I recently picked up this machine from a very lovely older gentlemen. He has serviced industrial sewing machines all his working live and now that he's retired, cleans, restore and sells machines. It runs like an absolute dream and is in working order. I have done a few headstall parts on it and repaired fender straps. It lays down a lovely stitch with whatever thread you feed it. The adler name is still vaguely on the body but i could not get it in a picture. But other than the engraved number i have nothing to go on. I think its a class 5. Any help and manual would be much appreciated. https://photos.app.goo.gl/weFqsAbWfPeHWa5LA https://photos.app.goo.gl/mX9cSWNWHQQofZ2K7

Hello there! I'm Mathilde and live in the Netherlands. I run a moderate sized tack store and do custom work and repairs. We import western tack and other products mostly from the the US. I do mostly custom spur straps, trophy tack and most common repairs. I have been a quiet reader for years. And this forum has saved me more times then I can count on both hands when I was on the edge of desperation. So thank you very much for all the knowledge and wisdom that is being shared here. I hope I can contribute some myself.