Leatherpownder Report post Posted September 26, 2012 3/8 Rawhide Bosalita I just finished for an order. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bruce johnson Report post Posted September 27, 2012 Super cool!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoubleC Report post Posted September 27, 2012 Beautiful work, Cheryl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bruce johnson Report post Posted September 27, 2012 The more I look at it, the more I like it. Pretty stoked to get one like it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoubleC Report post Posted September 27, 2012 I don't want to sound like the moron I am sometimes Bruce but I'm not sure of what your specialty area is. Or if you have a dozen of them....so couldn't you make one? Cheryl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bruce johnson Report post Posted September 27, 2012 I don't want to sound like the moron I am sometimes Bruce but I'm not sure of what your specialty area is. Or if you have a dozen of them....so couldn't you make one? Cheryl Cheryl, I don't braid, and even if I did, Bret is way over on the right side of the bell curve of braiders. I have the dark colored reins he posted a few months ago. They are braided straight as a rule, feel good, and are a pretty color to boot. The body of this hackamore is the same color string. I think it will look outstanding paired with the reins in a two-rein set up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoubleC Report post Posted September 27, 2012 Oh I agree. I saw his reins he did. I'm just in awe of someone buying something from someone else here I guess. A lot of us, and maybe it's just we newer people seem to says things like, 'I just love that, I think I'll make one.' Actually when I first started here I was more interested in doing bosals and things like that than I was in the direction I ended up. I bought a whole cow of rawhide strips and a really great book that I can't lay my hands on right this second because I moved, that was all about making things with rawhide. It took me about 4 times reading through to realize I had one big problem. I can't figure out the knots no matter how someone demonstrates them. I can round braid all day and love doing it so use it with my other projects all the time, but I can't do the simplest knot. And even though I love working with rawhide and braiding I don't have any great ability at it so even if I had the talent to make something like he did, which I don't, it would take me a year. I used a round braid on a rhythm beads project. I had an English rein, have no idea why since I ride western, but never throw anything away, and I think it's by far the prettiest set I ever made. Well you saw some of them, I remember you asking if they were ceremonial or something like that. But that's the only tack related items I even attempt these days Bruce. Everything else seems to be just whatever someone wants. I started out with my horse eye jewelry, rhythm beads and wanting to do tack and now I'm making the eye jewelry, beads and made an epi pen holder, a coin purse, 2 dog collars, a belt, and several guitar straps. I'm finishing up a messenger bag for myself currently to carry my products in. Seemed odd for a leatherworker to carry products around in a plastic store bag :-) Could you post a picture of the entire headstall, bosal and reins when you get it put together? Thanks, Cheryl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
megabit Report post Posted September 27, 2012 That is sure sweet! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ifoo Report post Posted September 30, 2012 Very nice and clean work. I love it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
