Halter questions

[jcuk]

Don't really have many pics of my work because most of my work are repairs and if i get  commission for something to be be made i just give to the customer, my better  half always says i should take pics always forget or they come to collect before i have have time to get round to it. But do have this, oh should have polished the brass.

 

Edited March 12, 2021 by jcuk

[TomE]

JCUK, that’s a beauty! I’ve seen that pattern of triple stitching on other halters. What is the reason for bridging between the stitch lines instead of terminating each stitch line separately?

[jcuk]

Saves time and thread by trying to do it using a single thread not always possible when using a lighter coloured thread when stitching large cheek pieces or head straps because it will drape all over floor and my workshop is not the tidiest to put it mildly.

Edited March 13, 2021 by jcuk

[Mulesaw]

Nice and clean looking halter. 

I like it when the throat latch (or whatever the name of it is) is made as a round piece.

 

[TomE]

8 hours ago, Mulesaw said:

Nice and clean looking halter. 

I like it when the throat latch (or whatever the name of it is) is made as a round piece.

 

Thanks, Mulesaw.  Making the round throat strap took some practice but I am getting faster/better at it.  There aren't many rein rounders for sale and they are priced accordingly. I am grateful that she who must be obeyed allowed me to buy one from Bruce Johnson Leatherwork.

[Mulesaw]

I didn't know that there was a special tool for making round reins.

The round parts that I have made, I have made by wrapping the leather round a small piece, then done some hidden saddlestitching through the side. 
Right now one halter is missing since my wife's horse decided to ditch his in the mud somewhere. I guess I'll have to make a new one at some point.
 

Brgds Jonas

[TomE]

5 hours ago, Mulesaw said:

I didn't know that there was a special tool for making round reins.

The round parts that I have made, I have made by wrapping the leather round a small piece, then done some hidden saddlestitching through the side. 
Right now one halter is missing since my wife's horse decided to ditch his in the mud somewhere. I guess I'll have to make a new one at some point.
 

Brgds Jonas

I made a few round pieces using the hidden stitch as described in Al Stohlman's "The Art of Making Leather Cases."  Thought that worked well.  He describes using a leather strap held in a vise instead of a metal rounder.  For now, I've switched to machine sewing the round and essentially mushrooming the corners using the rein rounder to mostly cover the stitches.  I'm using a 1.25 in wide strap of 7 oz leather wrapped around a 9 oz filler.  I got started using a metal rounder with this tutorial  https://brucejohnsonleather.com/index.php/download_file/1038/202/.  Good luck finding the halter.  We have ponies (Caspian horses) that wear breakaway halters with grazing muzzles.  Some disappear until discovered the following spring when I am spreading manure.