Saddle #3 Started

[Goldshot Ron]

Josh,

Your saddle came out well. I like how your border drops down from the fork even with your rigging border. That shows some planning on your part, and it works well. I agree with CW about your jockeys being a little too high. But, that is not often realized until it's too late. I can't count how many times that I have remade rear jockeys because the original ones just didn't "cut the muster". The shape of your seat looks good; hey, this is a great looking saddle.

Ron

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Ron & CW! I appreciate the compliments and the good feedback.

Best regards,

Josh

[Aurelie]

Hey Josh

i find that you're hard on yourself :D

this saddle is good and it 's only your 3d one!

ok stitching on the back cantle is not "nice" from the back but to me (at least) to do a neat and straight stitching on a straight cantle is one of the HARDEST thing to do on a saddle....(and i am at my 5th saddle and still have A LOT to figure out about a lot of things...)

Have a look underneath some "cheyenne rolls" and tell me if all of them are as nice and straight as on the top side.....

see what i mean? you can make "mistakes" on a cheyenne roll stitching and not showing it....but on a straight cantle = no way of hiding it!

if you have a look there :

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=45095&hl=saddles

you will see that my cantles are not so neat (along with a lot of other flaws i am working on improving :D )

and here a pic of the back of my only straight cantle ( i am not in a hurry to make another one...but will have to if i want to improve it)

so keep going, you're doing really fine

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Aurelie! I appreciate the kind words. I may have to build a few with cheyenne rolls if I can't get a better handle on my binder stitching ! BTW, I really enjoyed watching your progress on the saddle pictured above!

I finally completely finished this saddle for my wife. If the weather holds up we'll go out for a ride after work and see how it fits on a horse. Here's a picture of the complete package. I'll put a bunch more in a seperate post in the "show off" forum.

Thanks for looking and thanks to everybody for the helpful advise.

Best regards,

Josh

[Aurelie]

looks good

keep going Josh!