After making a trip to Pennstate to talk College-y stuff, my Mom and I went to our local Tandy Leather Shop. This is my type of shopping here. Rows and rows of leather, kits, stamps, dyes and every other type of trinket that goes along with leather.
I came out with this. Yes, a large cow hide. But look how big it is! It’ll last practically forever.
I also bought these. Not as interesting as a giant piece of cow, but they’re still important in their own ways.
…..when you know what you are semi-doing.
The saddle , when I began on it after school, was in pieces. I covered the tree, so it was a bunch of tooled leather.
Using thumb tacks I made a hole for the fenders and added conchos. I didn’t use the hole punch pencil because I was going through layers of leather.
The underside of the saddle looked like a wire weapon. :)
Parts were added and underside was covered with chamois. The stirrups are adjustable! This is the most realistic western saddle that I have ever made. It just needs stirrups added. And a girth. And a bridle. But I’ll figure out the bridle once I know who will be wearing the saddle.
Finished for the night.
Today I started on a western saddle. I wanted to try out my new tooling set, but I mostly just used one piece. Even in 1:9 scale, tooling takes a long time.
Getting there….
Done!
Then I dyed the pieces and construction starts hopefully tomorrow.
The night ended with this. Another snow storm.
During this weekend, Joann’s Fabrics was offering a 20% total purchase along with a 40% any regular priced item. Which meant that all local craft stores had the almighty 20% off the total purchase. With the wonderful coupons, I came home with these. A jewelry mallet, wire, a leather tooling set and sharp thing-ers (I think they are similar to awls).
The leather tooling set really made me excited. With some scraps I played around with the different tooling pieces. I see a western saddle in the future!
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