Monday this week I had my first western saddle order in quite some time, customer gave me the deposit and off I went ordering what I needed. I've been doing gun leather for some time and always buy my leather and hardware that is US made, for gun leather items it is not too difficult. After 2 days on the phone and the internet I now have everything shipping and it is all tanned and made right here in the good old USA. At first I thought, "should be easy". Not so, the stainless steel hardware,