Members compound Posted May 14, 2017 Members Report Posted May 14, 2017 Hi all. My last "saddlework". 4square feet of german silver and 300 stainless steel spots Have a nice day Martin Quote
Members Sanch Posted May 14, 2017 Members Report Posted May 14, 2017 by no stretch of the imagination am I a saddle maker nor do I care to be but I know a thing of beauty, time and effort when i see one! that my friends is a labor of love right there gorgeous work! Quote
Members Windrider30 Posted May 15, 2017 Members Report Posted May 15, 2017 Amazing work!! Is the tree wood or the newer platicsthat i have heard about? Quote
Members compound Posted May 15, 2017 Author Members Report Posted May 15, 2017 17 hours ago, Windrider30 said: Amazing work!! Is the tree wood or the newer platicsthat i have heard about? No, it is a wooden tree with fiberglass cover. I build my own trees. Quote
Members battlemunky Posted May 15, 2017 Members Report Posted May 15, 2017 Man is that nice! Gorgeous even. Just curious since I've seen it on a few saddles on here, and I mean no disrespect, is there a reason not to dye them or is it a customer driven thing? It seems like of the recent saddle pics I've seen they were largely or completely undyed. Not that it looks bad but you'd think with all the colors available that natural would be one of the least chosen options. Unless the customer wants to go after their own story with whatever wear/patina happens to be. Quote
Members Windrider30 Posted May 16, 2017 Members Report Posted May 16, 2017 On 16/05/2017 at 4:59 AM, compound said: No, it is a wooden tree with fiberglass cover. I build my own trees. You are one of the few people that I know that actually make their own trees! That has to save you a few 100 I would think! Quote
Members Grey Drakkon Posted May 16, 2017 Members Report Posted May 16, 2017 That is absolutely gorgeous! Quote
Members plinkercases Posted May 16, 2017 Members Report Posted May 16, 2017 WOW. do you engrave the silver plates yourself? Also is that real or artificial shearling? hard to tell and I assume real but.... curious is all. Quote
Members axmay Posted May 18, 2017 Members Report Posted May 18, 2017 That is what I call real leather work. Beautiful. I love the stirrup details. Quote
Members Wedgetail Posted May 18, 2017 Members Report Posted May 18, 2017 That is some beautiful work! I love the colour contrast between the natural, black, and silver. It really shows off the tooling too. Excellent work! Can we see it in action too? Quote
Members compound Posted May 18, 2017 Author Members Report Posted May 18, 2017 On 15. 5. 2017 at 11:14 PM, battlemunky said: Man is that nice! Gorgeous even. Just curious since I've seen it on a few saddles on here, and I mean no disrespect, is there a reason not to dye them or is it a customer driven thing? It seems like of the recent saddle pics I've seen they were largely or completely undyed. Not that it looks bad but you'd think with all the colors available that natural would be one of the least chosen options. Unless the customer wants to go after their own story with whatever wear/patina happens to be. yes man., this saddle is without color and antique . Customer want very rich contrast between black color and natural leather, so i used semi-gloss finish on leather and gloss black color around silver trim. Quote
Members compound Posted May 18, 2017 Author Members Report Posted May 18, 2017 On 16. 5. 2017 at 11:54 PM, plinkercases said: WOW. do you engrave the silver plates yourself? Also is that real or artificial shearling? hard to tell and I assume real but.... curious is all. No, silver is custom work from my favorite engraver in my country. I was made in according with my proposal and design. Shearling is "artifical" but i can use real sheepskin when customer want Quote
Members compound Posted May 18, 2017 Author Members Report Posted May 18, 2017 Thanks to all! I very happy when i see responses. I think this is very "cool" design. A lot of time and meets with customer. But effect is here. Saddle was bulit for young horse and first competition will be in August. Good luck for competition season!!! Thank you again Martin Quote Quote
Members Fonzarellis Posted May 30, 2017 Members Report Posted May 30, 2017 WOW! That's it....just WOW! Quote
Members compound Posted June 4, 2017 Author Members Report Posted June 4, 2017 Thank you again!!! Quote
Members Jetdoctorbox Posted June 7, 2017 Members Report Posted June 7, 2017 I can only hope to be that good some day!!! Beautiful work!!! Quote
Members compound Posted June 16, 2017 Author Members Report Posted June 16, 2017 So... last pieces of tack . Show tack set is ready for first contest this weekend Quote
Members compound Posted June 16, 2017 Author Members Report Posted June 16, 2017 ...headstall too... Quote
Members Rolandranch Posted September 10, 2017 Members Report Posted September 10, 2017 Very nice work! Is there a breast collar coming by any chance? Quote
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