saddle making

[jbird]

Hi everyone the tips you have all givin me are great thanks.

Can some one give me the process of how saddles or made and finished I can't for

the life of me understand how and when the stirups go on please give me some input thanks.

[HorsehairBraider]

Making a saddle is a pretty complicated thing to do and would require a book... and there are some pretty good books about how to make a saddle. But for just the stirrups, usually, the stirrup leather goes up around the tree in a special groove made for it. It goes up between the seat and the tree, and then comes back out between the tree and bottom skirt.

Have you got a saddle? You could just take a look at it real close and probably see this. If you don't have a saddle, do you have a friend that would let you look at their saddle?

[Denise]

jbird,

Here is one of the threads where the different books and videos are discussed.

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=260