When we go away, even for a day or two, we have to make sure the trees we leave behind are dry enough not to need daily attention. This means that when we get back, the trees are generally dry enough to varnish, leaving our drying surfaces empty. But the…
Rawhide covered saddle trees need to be baby sat – seams pounded down and nails reset daily to twice a day – or you end up with a lumpy, bumpy tree. This means that when we go… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/the-cupboard-was-bare/
Hamley Hangers are metal stirrup bars to go on Western saddles. The Hamley company came up with this design many years ago, but they never became really popular. We finally had a chance to build a tree with them. This is how we did it.
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Posted by greg gomersall on Oct 8th, 2011
Denise in the old Hamley cutting manual they said they would cut as many stirrup leathers as they could off of a hide and… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/hamley-hangers/
I figured out the proportion of Wades, metal horn forks and wood post swell forks so I could know how much wood to buy for the coming year. Turns out the numbers aren't a whole pile different than what we were doing 10 years ago.
We are no longer building saddle trees, but we have two videos about how Western saddles fit horses available on our westernsaddlefit.com website. that to make the same… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/crunching-the-numbers/
