Old Time Saddle

[Don101]

Well after months of slowly puting this saddle together its finished, it was a good learning prosess as the next one i do there would be a few different things and ways i would go about it, for the first i am happy, let me know what you think, Don

[TracyMoss]

Why the felt pad? Looks nice. I am curious, it seems as though there aren't any plugs on your saddle, or dutchmen whatever you want to call them.

[Don101]

ive built the saddle in the old fashioned way the skirts are pluged around the borders and i prefere the felt as it was easier avaliable and is easier to work with than shearing

[TracyMoss]

The skirts look awful thin to be plugged, maybe I just don't understand where your "borders" are. Please explain.

[Don101]

the skirts are just over 7mm thick, maybe its looking that way because the felt does pop up along the edge a little

[Jordan]

Looks great to me course I am not a rider or a maker, as a matter of fact I don't think I could even come close to making something as nice. Jordan

[TracyMoss]

Well, Good Job on the saddle. I think it really turned out nice and the lines are pretty clean, not always easy on true square skirts.

[pete]

REALLY nice job. Would you please take some close-ups of the seat tooling and the really neat border stamping on the side jockeys?

Great job!!

Bravo

pete

[ClayB]

Hey Don,

I think it turned out great! It's been fun watching you work on this and I bet it feels great to have it done. Do you get to try it out anytime soon?

[JRedding]

Don, It looks great, especially for a first, you did say that's your first didn't you? It's a lot better job than I did on the first one that's for sure. I really don't know what to say , you picked a difficult saddle to build and you nailed it, the difficulty level on that for a first saddle was high and it looks great,fit and finish are nice. Congragulations, are you ready to do it again ?