Has anyone seen this type of damage to a wet formed saddle?

[Les No6]

On 08/01/2019 at 4:15 PM, VYO said:

I am not sure about that seat but I have had leather crack on me. This wallet cracked before I had finished it. I chalked it up to bad leather. There was no wet forming involved.

Yes you are right bad leather, they’re no natural oils in skin the only thing oil does is increase oxidation and cause embrittlement by no means does it hydrate your leather, on a scorching summers day in Death Valley if you where to rub hoof oil into your skin you’ll burn to a crisp and so will leather.

[timesofplenty]

21 hours ago, Les No6 said:

Yes oxidation caused by iron oxide from the steel seat pan tell, Black staining in the cracks at the pressure points. Tannic acid is an antioxidant preservative which has a high affinity for iron oxide so it strips all the tanning from the leather and the leather oxidises and as water rots the steel inside the saddle it will rot from the inside out. So don’t listen to bs (see above) and stop questioning what is true.

the black your seeing is the black neoprene that is glued to the steel pan.