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3/31 final saddle pix

I was wondering what did you use for the ground seat on the saddle?

Oh and it look's good.

Watching me build a Trailer now that would be a sloooooooooooooooowwww process. :wink:
 
If you go to miy sight at starofthewesthats.com you can click on the slide show and see the process. I'm still trying to learn the way to snap the photos and put on them on the computer. I'll try to upload them into here some time.
 
The end product was very nice,you do good work.The owner will be satisfied for sure.Kinda sad its done.Got to watch a saddle being made that wasn't in the middle of my family room...LOL.
 
I'm late congratulating you on a beautiful piece of art, Jinglebob.

I sure like the flower carving...can't believe you just learned how to do
that. You must be a natural at it.

ETG, I haven't seen a saddle with a barb wire carving on it. Where did you find it? Was it custom made by a prisoner...I think that is what you mentioned. They make saddles in the prison here, or at least they used to. Some of the Bucky Bradford saddles were made in prison and they are nice saddles. But barb wire...I wonder if you would post a picture of it to show us what it looks like. Interesting.
 
Yes it was made at the prison. I will try to get a picture, its hanging in the barn....I am not real good at taking pictures lol. Thats why Sage has vacations here, so she can take em. I dont recall the guys name that made it, but he had been there something like 20 yrs when he finally got out and he moved North is all I know. My brother worked over there and got it made for us.. They can do awsome work..this guy made one mistake and its the seat itself and we were going to get it redone just hadnt yet..he padded it, well I love my padded seat lol..but the rest around here dont. The tree they used was one we had that belonged to my grandfather, its a 1880 Bear Trap I think is what I was told by my dad. The thing is so danged heavy I cant put it on a 15 hd horse it has to go over my head lol. Anyway, yes I will try FH to get something posted.

JB I have loved watching....being able to see what all you go through to build one it almost makes it worth seeing them HIGH DOLLAR price tags lol.

Sage...when I tell them to go to HELL lmao...hmmm...well never use that word, but ...guess that is talent. Got to tell the ex that and he didnt understand where I sent him back to..lmao

Huggsss,
Easty
 
Many of those fellows behind bars become very talented if they channel their efforts in the right direction...

Several years ago I hauled a prisoner to the State Pen and stopped at the Hobby Shop Store...I was always taken back by all the great work there for sale- but what really got me on this trip was the store was being run by a bullrider from Florida I had rodeoed with 30 years earlier on the east coast...He did some of the most beautiful horse hair hitching- belts, headstalls, purses....We got to talking and I found out he had been involved in a murder in the western part of the state-- said he had lots of time to develop his talent ( I think he said he got 40 years)....
 
Very nice looking saddle JB. Your tooling is really looking good. You must of worked diligently on that thing, didn't take you all that long to git er done. Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures, I've seen lots of saddles from start to finish, I've spent way too much time in saddle shops, now I've spent time in yours!!! :wink: Too bad you never got to meet Al Twomey before he died, he would of liked your work. Only thing about Al's saddles, his are heavy, but he guaranteed them for life. I ride one of his on a tree about the same as the one you just built and I'll bet mine is 10 pounds heavier.
 
Twomeys was in Lewistown, wasn't it, sw?

Did you know Bob Stewart who made saddles there? While incarcinated, he is the one who taught folks around the prison how to make saddles.
He made good ones and taught some fellas who now make good saddles. Can't remember what he was in for; maybe just bad checks (more than once.) :wink:
 
Al did have a shop in Lewistown along time ago, he had his shop in Musselshell for about the last 20 years or so, that was the only "business" in Musselshell, you could get coffee, a hamburger, pop or beer while you got your tack fixed up. I did take Al quite a while to finish a saddle cause it was too easy for him to sit and drink coffee and BS with everybody that came in. He was a character for sure. We had a guy hunting out here one fall that asked me to take a knife down to the shop and have a scabbert made for this knife. I took it down to Al and told him I needed to have the thing built in about 5 days as the hunter would be heading home then. I left the knife with Al. Went back down a few days later and Al said, "If you want a scabbert built for that knife you will have to get it somewhere else. That da#$ed knife was made in Japan. Don't you know we fought a was with those no good SOBs?" Jinglebob and Al would have gotten along great :wink:
 
Hey JB I rode my saddle all afternoon & believe it or not so far it is 100% leak proof & feels great!!!!! Tomarow I'll put it on the bay & find out for sure I'l let you know how it works out :???: :D :D Oh, & yeah my butt sure is smilein
Thanks again
 
Faster horses said:
How long did it take you from start to finish, Jinglebob? I don't mean in man hours, I mean in weeks or months or from when he ordered it to when he picked it up; because I know you couldn't work on it steady. Just curious.
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He orderedd it about a year ago. I let him use another one I had, a skelaton rig, until this one was built. I'm am just too easy! :wink:

As for how long, I guess I'd have to look at when I started posting pix of it. I suppose about a month or so.

If all I did was work on one, I think I could crank one like it out in about a week or maybe two, but it would be long days and I wouldn't be able to spend much time on Ranchers Net! :shock: :lol:

I'd be too busy and too tired. And hungry as I wouldn't have much time to cook! :shock:

The standard I've always heard was 40 hours to build one. I've only timed one and just kept track of the time I was actually working and not time for glue drying or waiting for leather to dry. That one took 43 hours and it didn't have nearly as much stamping and no carving like this one had.

If I was real efficient, I'd be building two or three at the same time, but then I'd have to spend money on a bigger shop and charge more to pay for the new shop! :lol:

I better just keep doing it the way I am now. :lol:
 
sw said:
Very nice looking saddle JB. Your tooling is really looking good. You must of worked diligently on that thing, didn't take you all that long to git er done. Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures, I've seen lots of saddles from start to finish, I've spent way too much time in saddle shops, now I've spent time in yours!!! :wink: Too bad you never got to meet Al Twomey before he died, he would of liked your work. Only thing about Al's saddles, his are heavy, but he guaranteed them for life. I ride one of his on a tree about the same as the one you just built and I'll bet mine is 10 pounds heavier.
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This one probably weighs about 33 to 35 pounds with the 4 1/2 inch brass bound stirrups. Plus he made me put a big ol' ugly pair of saddle bags on, so he could carry his tags and fencing supplies and doctoring stuff on it. We made it so they are easy to take off and put on, as he claims he won't have them on all that much, but shoot, you always need to be packing something!

I think I'm going to build a banana bag for my new one, if I can come up with a pattern that suits me. I usually just have a boot top bag hangin on mine. I can pack about all I need in it ,but it's kind of ugly. I might have to make me some small pretty saddle bags. :wink:
 
cowsense said:
JB.........Do you guarantee your saddles to be leakproof?? If so I'd better start saving and get my order in!!!! :roll: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
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My saddles are gaurentee'd to be leakproof if you never put them on the wrong horse! :wink:

I can't make a gurentee for "operator error"! :lol:
 
hired hand said:
Hey JB I rode my saddle all afternoon & believe it or not so far it is 100% leak proof & feels great!!!!! Tomarow I'll put it on the bay & find out for sure I'l let you know how it works out :???: :D :D Oh, & yeah my butt sure is smilein
Thanks again
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Hope your butt is still smiling tomorrow night! If it ain't just bring it back as I am pretty sure it will make mine smile! :wink: I'd be glad to refund any money, on the unused portion of that saddle. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
 
Jinglebob, I was just readin yer post, before I got to the "boot top bag" part, and was gonna tell ya, round here fellas that work cows from horseback, have a lil "boot top bag" that they put all their important stuff in. LOL But ya already got one.
 
Really nice rig JB. Was that an adjustable rig for the front latigo?
I just finished sewing a pair of saddle bags up for my son. The fellow that made his saddle cut them out and stamped them and since i like sewing with my awl and needles i thought i would sew them up. Well it's been a lomg story but but son made me a stitching horse in shop so that helped but I hate gussets with a passion. Hard to keep them from wrinkling and twisting so to keep the back and front square. You can have all the purse making you want.
When you get into building a cable rigged saddle make sure you post more pics.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Really nice rig JB. Was that an adjustable rig for the front latigo?
I just finished sewing a pair of saddle bags up for my son. The fellow that made his saddle cut them out and stamped them and since i like sewing with my awl and needles i thought i would sew them up. Well it's been a lomg story but but son made me a stitching horse in shop so that helped but I hate gussets with a passion. Hard to keep them from wrinkling and twisting so to keep the back and front square. You can have all the purse making you want.
When you get into building a cable rigged saddle make sure you post more pics.
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Yup, three way rigging so that you can ride at 7/8ths and there is only one wrap of the latigo under your leg so there is less bulk. Works real good and you can still set it at full or 3/4. I always move to 3/4 before I go to draggin' calves an you sure don't need a breast collar.

You, them gussets can be a pain, but if you use stiffer ileather, it helps. I don't ever want to go back to sewin' by hand! :lol:

I like my Tippman boss sticher way to good and I've found very few things I can't sew on it. If it requires hand stiching, out come the rivets! :lol:

I'll try and post pix on the next saddle as it will be a cable rigging. Matter of fact, probably the next three will all have cable riggings. They are stout and lighten up the saddle and get rid of bulk. I ain't found any real problems with them yet.

My grandson is home for a couple days as the father in law finally lost the fight to cancer, so the kids have all been home. It was really a blessing with FIL as he was really pretty good up until about a month before he died and only had to spend the last 4 days in a hospital, the rest he was at home with health care workers and his daughters there to help him.

Anyway, long story short, my grandson is getting a saddle with a cable rigging that he'll have to share with the other grand kids(when they show up :wink:) and I set him in the tree and he's about ready to fill it up! :shock: :lol:
Man, these kids grow like weeds. Especially when you don't see them
everyday. :shock:

It's going to be fun to build a saddle that nobody else can tell me how they want it! :wink:
 

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