All The Saddles Built By Aurelie

[Chaed]

Hey Aurelie, I'm really enjoying your saddles. Some questions from a newbie. How long does it take you to build one? And seeing as you're in France, where do you get your leather from and what kind of leather do you use? (I really love HO and Wickett&Craig, but getting them shipped to Europe is a no go money wise).

[Aurelie]

Thx guys

Chaed => Hermann et oak i use

I used to import directly from them in the USA but found "easier" and not more expensive to get them from "Logis de Cordes" near Lyon . They import Hermann and Oak for whole Europe now .

if you give me your email address by mp i can send you their informations and price .

No choice when you want to build western saddles...got to get almost everything from the USA.....(leather, saddle tree , hardware...)...and pay the price for it

It takes me a while to build a saddle (2 or 3 months sometimes 4 ) for several reasons :

1/ i am still "wet behind the ears" in saddle building department - in my opinion at least.

i am about to finish n°7 and 8

I take my time to build them good and i try to build 1 thing new (never done before) on each of my new saddle

You can't learn if you do not try (and often you learn by your mistakes) . this forum and lot of guys here helped me by sharing kindly advices

2/ In August 2013, it will be 3 years since i started that "business" and during that time frame : i got pregnant, had my baby girl and worked on my saddles.......still now i work part of the week and the other part i care for Charlotte .

I can say this : i suspect that if i worked full time i could build a saddle within 1 month maybe 1 1/2" month .......and with a wee bit more experience : 3 weeks sounds acceptable

[Aurelie]

#6 is finished => a Bowman roper

i ve built #6 and #7 at the same time (pics of #7 are coming) and 1st time i did 2 fork covers and 2 seats without any troubles, without wasting a single piece of leather!

and, this is not any longer or difficult to build 2 saddles at once

[Aurelie]

Hi guys!

and here the #7

ARABIAN saddle tree with all the "trimmings" : back cinch, tapaderos and knife on the billet :D

[Aurelie]

Hi guys!

I ve been a bit busy and lost a bit the count but here are the last saddles from my workshop

[Aurelie]

and the last one will follow asap

all those are inskirts but end of summer, i will have a flat plates out of the workshop

Have fun guys!

[Hi Im Joe]

Awesome work!

[Aurelie]

And the very last one

In-skirt rigging with a "wade" tree custom made

Thx Joe by the way

[Denise]

Aurelie, Glad you put "Wade" in quotation marks... Neat work. Original patterning. Keep at it!!

[Aurelie]

Thanks Denise

I should have specified "wade SHAPE"

To me "Wade" is just a fork SHAPE among others...... being used on a ranch saddle or not, using in-skirt rigging or flat plates

but about what's a wade or not.......i am not going to poke the "sore paw grizzly" with a 10 feet pole 3:)

Edited May 31, 2014 by Aurelie