Saddle tutorial

[nobearsyet]

Ground seat is done, now on to the skirts and cantler back, any suggestions

[Bob]

you may want to post a picture of your ground work. The shape maybe OK, but you may not have cut a hand hole yet and or stirrup leather slots. Those take alot of care to do correctly.

Then cover the edge of the hand hole

[nobearsyet]

I got the ground seat done, wound up going with a full seat instead of the half seat I was going to do because I didn't want ot use a metal strainer for my first seat, that was a lot of work, took me a couple days to get it all shaped. THe stirrup leather slots are already cut, as is the handhold hole. So to recap so far I've got the groung seat, gullet, and cantle back covered. I'm fixing to start the jockeys and skirts and all of the other stuff, then I think it's about time for sheepskin and a horn wrap isn't it?

[nobearsyet]

Sorry I've been gone for so long from my little tutorial here folks, here's the progress, it's done, I ended up buying a book, it turned out pretty good. I am going to do another one as one of my buddies saw my finished product and insists he has to have one, well, he's a videographer by trade s oI cut him a deal, I said I'd do it for the cost of the parts if he'd videotape and edit for the folks here, soon to come, a complete, free, online video saddle making tutorial. Stay tuned, this might take a couple months