Just showing off...

[CharlieR]

Just a thought, but when some of you guys do something as nice as this, it would be wonderful for you to take pics along the way for us newbies. Wow, great job!!

[entiendo]

I've thought about this Charlie and I just don't take the time to take pictures during the process. In fact I absolutely hate taking pictures and if it wasn't for the help of my photographer neighbor none of my pictures would be worth looking at. LOL Right now I'm trying to train my daughter to do the picture taking for me. Then I'd be happy to share the process....well as long as she did the cropping and resizing as well.

I would be happy to share any of the process in words though.

[Bevan]

I would be happy to share any of the process in words though.

Gday Jackie, i have just made my first Bosal and i am looking for a nice plaited headstall , well i do not think i will find a better one than yours , bloody awesome so if you would like to share details of lenghts and knots that would be cool with a capital C

Cheers from down under

Bevan

[entiendo]

Thanks! That's very kind! Sure, it's really a very basic bridle. A lot of the measurements are in Grants "How to make Cowboy Gear". Though I do think I may have changed the pattern a little because Grants books made a very large bridle. I'll look at those sometime today. The alamar knot, if you choose to add that, is 20" and the piece that goes between the ears is 21". However the piece between the ears can be attached different ways. I looped it through the 2 bridle pieces but if it was attached with a knot it would need to be braided shorter. I also suspect that the knot would need to be braided fairly loose.

The alamar knot can be part of the browband rather than a separate piece like I have it. All you would need to do to figure the extra length to account for the knot would be to take your 8 plait core, make your knot and then measure how much string you used. For example, if your browband is 25" and your alamar knot took 10" of string to make you would braid your browband piece 35". Then you would have a double 8 plait browband.

Or you can come up with your own way to attach the alamar knot. I've done it 2 different ways now but I have an even better way in my head that won't be expressed until I find the time.