A Bosal

[KnotHead]

A bosal made here in my shop by Jorge(lilpep)...

Brian

[megabit]

Never seen one quit like that. Sure looks kinda neat, how does that doubled cheek work on a horse? Or is this a display piece? The braiding is awesome.

[Aggiebraider]

Very nice work lilpep, I really like that heel knot and I wish you had some pics of the foundation without rawhide on because I have never seen one like that and cant quite figure it out in my head. One word of advice though, you might want to shape the bosal some as it is very flat across the noseband and if it is going to be used, I think that will cause it to rub fairly bad around the corners of the jaw. You might try putting a coffee can in the middle and wrap a piece of leather around the cheeks fairly tight and leave it for a week, just to get it back to a more round shape. If you were already going to do that ignore everything I just said and just take my congrats on making such a unique bosal.

Megabit - to my knowledge they work just as well as a conventional bosal as long as you make the diameter of the cheeks small enough as to not be really bulky like two full size bosals laying next to each other.

I want to make one similar to this for my brother to use as a tie down, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to add either a ring or some other way for you to add a tiedown to a bosal like this. I know in Grant's book he has a bosal that there is a loop in the bottom that he spliced the two sides together and brought it together with a ring knot, but for using this as a tie down, I feel wouldnt be quite secure enough.

Once again lilpep great job!

[KnotHead]

I am thinking that it is actually a functional Bosal. I'm not a horse guy yet, so if Jorge would chime in here, that would be great. I just love to braid and tie. I have no experience with horse equipment.

[lilpep]

hey you guys sorry it took me a while havnt checked in for a littlebit. the bosal was just finished when we took the pics of the finished "phase" i do have some pics of the heel knot foundation, it think i do Brian and I tried to take pics of some of the process but not sure what we got. i basically tied togeter all four ends and trimed the covers (small lace) and used the core laces to do a back braid the length of the heel. i latter put some ring knots around the area where the bulges would be and built it up with cotton athletic strips in the shape i wanted. ( i am guilty of using tape but atleast it wasnt other kind of tape) after the coton was built up nice and tight i covered it in at very fine foamy athletic tape just to mask the white color of the cotton. the foundation knot is a two pass 8 bit x ?part (increased the 2bit long TH like in grants book) and then i interwove several different 8bit knots on the bulges to cover the gaps. along the nose button i used whipping and a litttle bit of tape to round off the little ledges created by the whiping and did some fid work with a back braid on one end to give it the pinneaple look at the ends of the nose button. i also put some ring knots and 7x6 turks head on the ends of the button underneath the fidwork to make the little bulges a little bigger. woowwo thats alot of bla bla bla from me. hoo nad since i havnt been riding in years dont know how well it will work but i deffineatly wanted it to be functional and showy. i was pleased with it even though i can improve on the next one. thanks for looking and commenting you guys take care.

PS. hoo i forgot to mention its all horse rawhide except for the tape ofcourse.

Edited April 2, 2010 by lilpep

[Bevan]

hey you guys sorry it took me a while havnt checked in for a littlebit. the bosal was just finished when we took the pics of the finished "phase" i do have some pics of the heel knot foundation, it think i do Brian and I tried to take pics of some of the process but not sure what we got. i basically tied togeter all four ends and trimed the covers (small lace) and used the core laces to do a back braid the length of the heel. i latter put some ring knots around the area where the bulges would be and built it up with cotton athletic strips in the shape i wanted. ( i am guilty of using tape but atleast it wasnt other kind of tape) after the coton was built up nice and tight i covered it in at very fine foamy athletic tape just to mask the white color of the cotton. the foundation knot is a two pass 8 bit x ?part (increased the 2bit long TH like in grants book) and then i interwove several different 8bit knots on the bulges to cover the gaps. along the nose button i used whipping and a litttle bit of tape to round off the little ledges created by the whiping and did some fid work with a back braid on one end to give it the pinneaple look at the ends of the nose button. i also put some ring knots and 7x6 turks head on the ends of the button underneath the fidwork to make the little bulges a little bigger. woowwo thats alot of bla bla bla from me. hoo nad since i havnt been riding in years dont know how well it will work but i deffineatly wanted it to be functional and showy. i was pleased with it even though i can improve on the next one. thanks for looking and commenting you guys take care.

PS. hoo i forgot to mention its all horse rawhide except for the tape ofcourse.

So tell me !!!! whats sort of horse are you going to put this on ????? and please let me know how it goes !!!

[Bevan]

A bosal made here in my shop by Jorge(lilpep)...

Brian

That heel knot looks niced but what does it do better than the others, that i have seen ???? i know the ones that i use have some weight in them to give reward with relieve if its only for looks good and well but i would not like that swinging of my horse all day doing nothing .have you got a block to shape it ????? not too many horses have a nose that wide and flat ,,, sorry mate but i am only thinking of the horse !!!

Edited April 9, 2010 by Bevan

[lilpep]

bevan

dont know what kind of horse this is going on yet. like i said i havent been riding in years. im in the military so for know i just do this for fun. i havnt shaped it yet like i mentioned it was just finished when i took the pics. the heel knot is just for show i wanted to do some thing diferent than what every one does so this is what i came up with. i didnt use anything to shape it except for my imagination and building up the tape and rawhide where i wanted it to be. the rest is having some knotting knowledge and inteweiving the base knot in different areas to fill in gaps. so in other words part of the heel knot is two pass another is three pass and others four pass. because of the odd shape partial interweaves was necesarry but they are all meant to keep the same hearing bone pattern with the nested bits of a pinneaple. maybe this clears up a little? the whole point of this bosal was to do something different !!! the body is knot the same old braid the nose button is done different the heel is done different just to mix things up and to challenge my self a bit.

i've seen your work it's great congrats