Visalia style saddle

[Alan Bell]

Hey Darc, what more can one say?!!!!

Vaya Con Dios, Alan Bell

There was a Buffalo Soldier in the war for America

Bob Marley

[ClayB]

Darc,

That really is one nice looking saddle. I like the old style too, and the color is just perfect. The time you spend drawing your patterns really pays off. The tooling really fits. Any tips or hints in pattern drawing for something like this that you would like to share?

Great job, thanks for sharing this with us.

Clay

[Romey]

very nice

[KAW]

Nice work I really like old style Visalias the are one of my favorites.

[CitizenKate]

I concur with the others who have responded to your post; your saddle is beautiful. I don't really know much about the functionality of saddles, but the artistry is as good as any I have seen. Thanks for sharing the photos, and I hope you continue posting more work.

Kate

[bruce johnson]

Darcy,

Really neat saddle. The square skirts look really nice, and the tooling sure looks Visalia. I especially like the way this saddle and the one you had on the WH forum come out with the darker brown dye.

[ArtS]

Beautiful!! Wow. Really clean and rich color. That is one great job!

ArtS

[D.A. Kabatoff]

for those who asked, . I've altered the original photos at the top of this thread to show the saddle with the taps and added four more pictures with this post. The silver horn cap was made by Richard Tennisch of Merritt, B.C.

Darc

[karl]

Darc, That's a beautiful saddle. I just finished a little half size saddle and am kinda proud of the way it turned out and my first try at it. I just signed up to start taking a saddle making class starting next week. It will be on Sundays from 2 to 5pm every week for 12 weeks and should be a great experience. I hope mine turns out half as beautiful as yours.

Karl

Edited September 2, 2007 by karl

[mudman]

That is one FINE rig!!!