Groundseat redo!!

[greg gomersall]

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[kseidel]

Thanks again for everyone's help. When you sit in this saddle the cantle seems to be more straight up and tends to push on you just above your pockets. When a tree is ordered with this tall of a cantle. What would be the normal amount of dish?

Doug,

I like a 1 1/4" dish in the tree with a 5" cantle 13" wide. I usually finish out about 1". 1 1/2" in the tree is harder to fill to the desired shape without sitting the rider too deep and feeling the top of the cantle. Only one inch in the tree can sometimes be too shallow. If you are using 12" wide, 1" is plenty.

Keith

[BondoBobCustomSaddles]

Doug,

Here are a couple of pictures of one I did with a 6" cantle. It had 1 1/2" dish. What I like to do is "hang" the leather from the top of the cantle to the seat bottom in order to create a smooth gradual transition that sets the rider a little forward and keeps him from "banging " into the top of the cantle when the horse is moving. Most people ask for those high cantles because they think they are "cool and old timey" and they think they need them in order to stay put when riding. Truth is, once they start riding a lot they will find that they do not need all that deep pocket in the seat and began to become uncomfortable with it. It is best to make a comfortable seat, unless they are just going to set the saddle on a stand somewhere as a conversation piece. Of course that is just my opinion, and like belly buttons, we all have one!

Hope that helps.

Happy Trails!

Bondo Bob