please take a look at my saddle made in mexico

[bluesman1951]

Very fine work ,my compliments sir ! Job well done . Clean and elegant are words that come to mind .Amazing ! Bluesman1951

Im a saddlemaker in mexico,I make a reiner saddle

Please take a look and critic my work,I do also make my trees

[Sylvia]

uh oh... now you've done it Penske... you get to do up a tutorial to teach us how you make your own trees. And please share the place you get your Herman Oak comparable leather source.

The saddle does look very nice. I can't imagine the hours you put into that crazy leg basket weave.

[Aurelie]

Im a saddlemaker in mexico,I make a reiner saddle

Please take a look and critic my work,I do also make my trees

Hello!

Congrats for that saddle! :D

And yes, please, if you can share here or on PM the contacts for the hides in Leon that would be cool!

don't know for the other people but as for me i am willing to give it a try!

Regarding your job : it would be nice if you could add more pictures : the whole saddle, the back , the front...

it would help to see more of it

Same with your trees...i am really interested into seeing how you perform your saddle tree maker job

from the picture i can see:

basketwave : very clean

if you wanted to be picky , you could make the wave, the same direction on the different parts (seat, back jockeys, fenders....) but i grant you : easy to say, not so easy to do (1 thing i learnt in sheridan...)

edges : look clean and nice

i , personnally, not fond of black eedges on brown leather.....but still nice

even more when you know how tricky this black is to apply ....

too bad there is a black stain on the side jockey edge...

the padded seat looks really great! i love the white stitching on the black leather

one sad thing : the edge of padded seat overlaps on your stamping border

need a better adjustment and measurement when you stamp and when you put on the padded seat

the stitching :

are you stitching by hand or sewing machine?

i guess you use a sewing machine

make sure you have enough thread on the bobine before starting stitching the skirt so that you can do it in 1 shot and avoid that "mess" on the area of the back rigging

same kind of thing with the spot at the meeting between back cantle and seat

those are details.....do not be discouraged because we are ALL on the same boat and we do improve ourselves at each new saddle we build

Now all thoses things are "esthetic" matters.....as for me i am more interested by the "technique" what have you done, how have you build you saddle (aka everything that does not show BUT whose are still important for the horse

i can't wait to hear more about that saddle

Edited July 31, 2012 by Aurelie