saddle project

[cowboy316]

howdy pards just wanted to post a progress pic or 2 of the saddle ive been playin with for the last month or so
just finished the horn cover and wanted to have ya knit pick it a bit
thanks for lookin and for all the support
Cowboy316

[Freedom]

Wow Cowboy that looks great!. Your stitching looks nice and even too! I know that can be a real challenge to get right. Cutting all that thick leather even and parrallel to the stiching is tough too.... You did REAL good

The other thing is that you were able to keep from getting holes on the back where the ears/cover wraps around your filler. Nice job

Only thing I see is  that a rope may hang up on the ends where your stitching ends... This is just a little extra carving that can be done.. your stitches may be too close to the ends to cut more on this one but you may still be able to round them off a bit.?? Pretty scary thought to go whacking on it after you have it looking so good .... I will show you a pic if you would like to see what I am talking about.(with your permision)

One question?? how did you get this done "so right"?? This is not an easy thing to do without patterns and some instruction..

[Marshal Will Wingam]

That's some good work, Cowboy. It sounds like Freedom has pointed out any improvement you may want to make. Darn well done, pard.

[Kid Terico]

316 looks like a great job to me. Keep it up. KT

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

  Cowboy 316, I think what you've done looks good, I've never made a saddle so my input is limited but I know you will do a nice job of it.

    tEN wOLVES 

[santee]

Cool! Keep the pix coming. It'll be fun to follow.

[cowboy316]

thanks pards for all the kinda words its been fun trying to do this with just an old VHS tape set from
Bill Gomer and i wil be docutmenting every phase of the build so i can look back and see what i did wrong LOL

Freedom  thanks for the help and it would always be a pleasure to see pics of how you do things
and as for the corners im onna wrap the horn in mule hide so i dont think those will be much of a problem but we will
see when its all  done
and as for getting it as ood as i did theres only one answer and theirs only one that knows and that the good Lord
above he must be thinkin im a natural but in my mind im just a ROOKIE lol
thanks aain pards for all the support and kind word
Cowboy316
PS for grins and to see if you call me a liar that was the first time i ever used my diamond awl for punching stitching holes
most times i use my dremal with a drill bit LOL

[cowboy316]

howdy pards
gullet finished and installed calling this my saddle of many leathers LOL
and for those that have pics of their saddles in progress feel free to post pics as i go threw this project
all visual help is great full thanks pards
Cowboy316

[GunClick Rick]

Heck i wouldn't sit on that! Wouldn't hang no dally from it either! Reason bein i ain't got it!!!!!!

Looks like alot of work buddy,you got my respect..If you were closer i would let put a couple pieces of leather on my old wood tree here in my room..Carry on 316,carry on~~

[amin ledbetter]

Very nice job so far Cowboy! I hope to try my hand a saddle makin one day. Anyone who does it has my utmost respect! Tons of work goes into makin one, that's for sure!

[cowboy316]

 
well pards saddle is on hold till i make some more cash went to get leather for the ground seat
and was gonna be charged 66 bucks for 7 square feet of leather so ive got to wait till i get some stuff
sold so i can get to tandy and get there skirting thats on sale for 75 a side and then ill just buy 3 sides and have
enough leather for the whole saddle but who knows when that will be 
Cowboy316

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

  Well cowboy, it's just like everything else in life, we have to do things as we can afford them, we've all been there, so take your time, there is no hurry, we'll look forward to seeing your progress as you can do it.

         Regards

       tEN wOLVES 

[cowboywc]

Howdy 316
Gullet looks good except you need to skive those edges down to a feathered edge.
WC