Square skirt Wade

[BrianHochstrat]

Here is one I just finished. Its a 16 1/2 wade with a 5 inch cantle. I was pretty happy with my lines on this one, anyone who builds square skirt saddles know it is challenging to get everything running parallel and line up as it should. Normally I would have run the skirt out the back a bit more, but the customer rides smaller type horses so we decided to keep it as short as we could.

[Bob]

Brian, nice work. It's not often these days when you see an 8 string seat. I like it. The artwork arrangement is very nice. The lines are great too. Is that a rawhide binding? Did you double and stitch all the jockeys? Either way, it looks nice like that. I'd like to see and learn how you braided the twist. Thats a nice touch. Very good workmanship.

[D.A. Kabatoff]

Brian,

beautiful work on that saddle... i've made a few square skirts and know how hard it is to keep those skirts looking straight and square, you did a heck of a job. Beautiful carving, nice clean work with great flow. Love to see a few more photos from different angles with some close ups.

Darc

[gtwister09]

Brian,

beautiful work on that saddle... i've made a few square skirts and know how hard it is to keep those skirts looking straight and square, you did a heck of a job. Beautiful carving, nice clean work with great flow. Love to see a few more photos from different angles with some close ups.

Darc

Brian,

Ditto...

Regards,

Ben

[jonwatsabaugh]

Brian,

Four button seats are difficult to get proportionally level and ballanced with a beautiful radius. I've seen many of the so called "masters" four button seats that disapointed me. Your's however, is perfect in all aspects according to my liking. Overall mechanical ballance, proportion, and artistry on this saddle are exceptional! Rarely I add pictures of rigs I like to aspire to. This one I will surely reference often for education and inspiration.

Jon

[JRedding]

Brian, beatiful floral job, nice rawhide work, just an all-out fine piece of work, most of all the seat in that saddle is so good I can see it all the way to Utah.

[PENSKE]

brian you work its beatiful on this saddle howmany hours you

spend on the tooling,what canI said BEATIFUL SADDLE I hope

we can learn from you brian how you make the braided on the

twist its that the side button .

[ArtS]

Absolutely beautiful saddle. Great job!

ArtS

[BrianHochstrat]

Thanks for the good reviews. I do not have any close up shots of the saddle, I mostly just get a side shot for my website and call it good, if I did something out of the ordinary I will take a shot of it, but this saddle was basicly patterned after one I built a few years ago. The braid on the twist is a long knot like on a bridle rein turnback, but I just braid the foundation of the knot, so it has a over one under one sequence. -Brian

[mudman]

Very Nice Indeed!!