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Any Ideas?

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I bought these. With a couple ideas in mind.

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I see a pair of lamps for my livin room and maybe a few hangin in my game room if we ever get it finished. Other than that I have no idea what I am gonna do with them. There's 21 in all, and some are in good shape, others not so good. But all in good'nuff shape to use for craft projects..Now I just gotta figure out what? LOL
 

nr

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The lamp idea is a neat one. Lots of aged texture to them.
Are they still covered with leather or is it all plastic. Could you partially fuse them with heat just enough that they're still identifiable?
Course what would you do with them then? a hat rack?
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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They are wood, covered with raw hide. I'm just gettin started on ideas on how to join them together. Prolly be trial and error till I get it figured out.....Can't wait to go to the store and buy the lamp makin supplies and get started.
There's very little leather on them. All that's there is lil strips that were left on after all the other was stripped off them.
 

cowsense

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Hold on LILLY...............................That's not lamp material......you can start practicing saddle building..............by correspondance with Jinglebob if necessary!!!!!!! Just think if you persevere and get good you won't have to go "prison" to get new boots :twisted: :wink:





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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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LOL but....but.....I like my "prison" boots.

I've tooled one saddle, and then Mr Lilly and I put it together for Lil Lilly. Don't know if I'm ready to tackle a project like that again any time soon. It was fun tho. Alot of these I don't think would be good to build a saddle on now. They look like when they had leather on em, that they had been repaired lotssss of times.
 

HAY MAKER

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You better hide that stuff from your ole papa inlaw Lilly,I would imagine he might have a few suggestions for them :D ............good luck
 

Turkey Track Bar

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Lilly....

How about a flower planter? Somehow put a pot between them? I don't know, I don't have a lick of talent in this stuff...But I bet you come up with something great!

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 

nr

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HAY MAKER said:
You better hide that stuff from your ole papa inlaw Lilly,I would imagine he might have a few suggestions for them :D ............good luck

LOL! Good idea! Your dad in law is always "thinking out of the box" in such unexplicable ways- he's bound to come up with an original :shock: something-or-other.
 

katrina

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Lilly, Decoupage a weatern picture on the seat and use it to hang on the wall....Say like a oldtime cowboy on a bucking bronc.. Drill hangers on the endside and run a wire to hang.......
 

Mrs.Greg

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katrina said:
Lilly, Decoupage a weatern picture on the seat and use it to hang on the wall....Say like a oldtime cowboy on a bucking bronc.. Drill hangers on the endside and run a wire to hang.......
Lilly,Katrinas idea is a great one.Just make sure whatever you do,we see the end result! :)
 

katrina

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IN the house in town I have that leather look paint on my heat and cooling grills in the living room, I have a weatern theme... And they turned out really cool... Lilly I was going to do that to an old saddle I have in the barn and haven't had time... So I even have the pictures if you want I will send them to you to use....I will never get to it.......
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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That does sound neat, if there was a "seat" but all there is there is tha bare tree. with the opening in the middle and the two bars from the swell to the cantle where your stirrup straps go thru. I found a picture of a lamp online last night made out of one........

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not quite what I was thinkin, but since two put together would be awfully big for a table top.......I may go with this ......
 

Faster horses

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Sorry Lilly. I love all the other things you have shown us. This, however, in my opinion is ugly. Sorry!

Might make a great conversation piece tho...
 

Mrs.Greg

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katrina said:
IN the house in town I have that leather look paint on my heat and cooling grills in the living room, I have a weatern theme... And they turned out really cool... Lilly I was going to do that to an old saddle I have in the barn and haven't had time... So I even have the pictures if you want I will send them to you to use....I will never get to it.......
Katrina...tell me how you did the leather look paint...please :)

Oh Ok Lilly,too bad it doesn't have the seat...katrinas idea was really neat....although I also really like the Lamp picture you posted.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Hehe. That's ok Faster horses.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe this is one of those times.....but I'm still gonna make me a pair of lamps.

that one I posted a picture of....was on a furniture store website for western art and such.....was $289.00 ........I got a whole pallet of these......maybe I can piddle around and make a lil money to boot. If not....then I guess I'll hafta take online classes from jinglebob like was suggested...... :D
 

Mrs.Greg

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Hehe. That's ok Faster horses.....beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe this is one of those times.....but I'm still gonna make me a pair of lamps.

that one I posted a picture of....was on a furniture store website for western art and such.....was $289.00 ........I got a whole pallet of these......maybe I can piddle around and make a lil money to boot. If not....then I guess I'll hafta take online classes from jinglebob like was suggested...... :D
Lilly I'll buy one or two.....if you promice to hand deliver them,heck I won't even make you deliver in the winter,make it July then you won't freeze your tookus off...lol
 

katrina

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Mrs. Greg.
I found a can at the Ace hardward store and all you do is paint it brown and them sponge with a darker color. Carter helped me and it was way cool.. And easy...

Lilly: Put a cowboy poem on it..........
 

Ranchy

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I gotta agree with what cowsense said..............use em for what they were made for, or sell them to some saddle maker and make yourself some moola! :nod: Of course, ya can keep a couple of them for your lamps, and a few for hanging on the wall........:nod: :lol:
 
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