Recovering Old Saddle

[Denise]

Patricia, you don't need to use photobucket to get pictures up on the forum. Here are some directions to help you out. Having been on dial up until lately, I understand what you are dealing with, and this works great so long as you make your pictures smaller before you upload them.

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=15122

[Patricia]

I will try. I am still on dial up if you can beleive that, and posting pics to photobucket and then to the forum is so time consuming. And rite now I am trying to get all these Xmas gifts done. I will post some pics of them in the bragging section. lol lol

I would love to see your pics too. I was just trying to post to photo bucket and it isn't working for me today. There must be a better way:You_Rock_Emoticon:

[Patricia]

OK I am trying it now....

That Worked:thumbsup: Thanks for the tip. This is a picture of a rifle sling I was working on. I know was off topic but I had to try that photo up load thing.

Anyway back to the saddle project. I don't expect to get back to it untill after Xmas but I will be posting pics.

Edited December 21, 2010 by Patricia

[Denise]

Glad you got it figured out!! Looking forward to more pictures now!

[Patricia]

Well I have a facebook page and photobucket albums with lots of pictures on them but I don't know if posting links is allowed.

[Denise]

Sure it is! It lets us see your stuff!

[Patricia]

OK, This is for my facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sandy-Ridge-Leather/173395786012610

It has the most pictures of Leather stuff

This one is my photobucket

http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c249/patriciapotvin/

It has pictures of all kinds of stuff but there are some leather pics there too.

[Patricia]

HI All!

Well I have been working on my saddle. I cut all the pieces. I got the horn wraped and the swells. Now working in tooling the rest of the pieces. I was a little unsure about cutting the leather for the swells. I had a hard time getting the old piece to fatten out so I could use it for a pattern so I cut it really big and just cut off what I didn't need. I has a few goofs. I know where they are, But I guess that is to be expected for a first timer. I will see if I can get some putures to come up.

Edited February 6, 2011 by Patricia

[spurdude101]

HI All!

Well I have been working on my saddle. I cut all the pieces. I got the horn wraped and the swells. Now working in tooling the rest of the pieces. I was a little unsure about cutting the leather for the swells. I had a hard time getting the old piece to fatten out so I could use it for a pattern so I cut it really big and just cut off what I didn't need. I has a few goofs. I know where they are, But I guess that is to be expected for a first timer. I will see if I can get some putures to come up.

Hello, I did the same thing to an old high back made by Tom Flynn of Silverton Colo. what I did was to soak the old pieces in the bath tub for a couple of days. this brought them back to their original size and made them flexible so as to lay flat for pattern cutting. I bought a saddle building book which really helped with the ground seat and finish/ stamping. I'll have to find the pictures and put up the whole story someday. turned out quite well and is on display in our living room.

[Patricia]

I would love to see it.