Porter Kid Saddle

[Ken Nelson]

I got a used 12 1/2" Porter Kid saddle come into the shop today. It is in pretty decent shape and looks like it has a lot of miles left and plenty of calf dragging or Team Roping left. It has an in-skirt rigging with different hardware than I have ever seen. Flower carved. It does need new back billets and the buckstitching on the padded seat is in rough shape. Depends on what a customer wants, I will replace the padded seat and put new sheepskin in it or sell it the way it is with just the necessary repairs and cleaning to make it ridable and safe. Billets, latigoes, a little sewing and stirrup hobbles and it can go out the door. I would put my own children or grandchildren in this saddle if I had any. It is really well made. Ken

[Denise]

I'd love to see some pictures of it if you can post them. It sounds like quite a neat little saddle.

[tbarhranch]

Hi, I would be very interested in this saddle, any idea on price and pics would be great. Thanks

[Ken Nelson]

Hi, I would be very interested in this saddle, any idea on price and pics would be great. Thanks

Let me see if I can make this work?

[Denise]

Neat saddle Ken. Thanks for the pictures! Glad you got them posted here OK.

[Ken Nelson]

Thank you, Denise, I am going to take offers on it as is until Sunday and then I am going to completely restore it. I am going to put in a new padded seat, reline it, New billets and anything else I can find the least bit wrong. This is too nice a saddle not to. I don't have anything on big the next couple of Sundays . The Shop phone # is 575-356-3628.

[Ken Nelson]

Thank you, Denise, I am going to take offers on it as is until Sunday and then I am going to completely restore it. I am going to put in a new padded seat, reline it, New billets and anything else I can find the least bit wrong. This is too nice a saddle not to. I don't have anything on big the next couple of Sundays . The Shop phone # is 575-356-3628.

I finished this "LITTLE" project up early this morning and would like to share a little of it with you all. Of course, I done a clean and oil on it. Mostly clean as the leather is in really good shape on this saddle. I replaced the padded seat, resewed every seam on it as it had been sewn with, I presume Linen thread, without thread wax and all the stitching was in a sorry state.. I relined the skirts. I put in new skirt plugs in the back of the skirts as the original plugs were Cotton canvas. I was surprised to find the ground seat had what I think was body putty in it. It is now all leather from the strainer up.I replaced the stirrup leathers, not because the old ones were bad but they had been replaced at sometime and had had a poor job done of it. I built a new 5 inch contour flank cinch for it as well as new billets. One of the old billets was broken, they were unlined and I wanted full sized lined billets on it. I built a 5 inch flank for it as that width seems to be popular with a lot of people that frequent my shop. I replaced all the strings because it need a couple and thought it would look better will all new strings. The rope strap was broke off so I replaced it too. I put in 1/8 inch of foam in the padded seat and sewed in a pattern, which doesn't show up very well in the pics. When I got this saddle in, the skirts were rolled under a little in back but the new plugs took care of that just fine. I put new Harness rivets in the in-skirt rigging, not because they were bad, it just seemed like a good idea with every thing tore down. New latigoes in front. One thing I changed was the original billets were 1 1/2", and I made the new ones 1 3/4" to accomodate seamless buckles of that width. It is ready to go and I will see if a really nice youth saddle in excellent condition will work in my shop. If you have any questions, the shop # is 575-356-3628. Ken