What Leather Workers Do On Vacation

[Frank]

Hey all.

It has been a while since I have posted. I ended up on vacation for a couple of weeks. It took me an hour just to catch up on the posts that I missed while gone.

Most of what I make is 1800's style cowboy gear. Most of the orders are holsters and gun belts and I haven't put a saddle together in a couple of years.

Well, I visited a friend that is a leather worker and decided to build a saddle for myself while helping him paint his house. I painted during the day and built the saddle in the evenings. I never thought for a second that I would work while on vacation but it seemed to work out pretty well. I wanted something 1800's style and then added a few frills to it. It's too pretty to jerk steers with but it will turn a head or two. Here are the results.

[GrampaJoel]

Now that is very cool!

Will you share with me what type and color the seat leather is? I just love the color and it looks so soft!

Thanks

Joel

[Frank]

Joel,

Thanks for the compliments. I used Wickett & Craig brown skirting leather. All of the lighter accents are the discontinued Tandy natural veg tan ( I believe that's the name of it) I finished it with a layer of Fiebing's Bag Kote and then a layer of Weaver's Tuff Kote

Frank

[Luke Hatley]

Fine looking saddle. who did you get the Tree from?

[Frank]

Thanks Luke. I appreciate it. I got the tree from Timberline.

[Ferg]

Hey all.

It has been a while since I have posted. I ended up on vacation for a couple of weeks. It took me an hour just to catch up on the posts that I missed while gone.

Most of what I make is 1800's style cowboy gear. Most of the orders are holsters and gun belts and I haven't put a saddle together in a couple of years.

Well, I visited a friend that is a leather worker and decided to build a saddle for myself while helping him paint his house. I painted during the day and built the saddle in the evenings. I never thought for a second that I would work while on vacation but it seemed to work out pretty well. I wanted something 1800's style and then added a few frills to it. It's too pretty to jerk steers with but it will turn a head or two. Here are the results.

Boy! I like simplicity more all the time. Beautiful job. Great color and just the right choice on tooling.

ferg

[Frank]

Thanks for all of the compliments. I really think simplicity is beauty. People who fully carve a saddle and make it look good (there are many on this forum) are just amazing to me but it never appealed to my taste personally. As far as the tooling pattern, it is one of my favorites to use.

Frank

[compound]

WOW good! I love this style:)

[Frank]

Many thanks. I appreciate it. The next one is going to be similar but I am working with Felkins to come up with just the right tree for it