I love getting stuff in the mail. Today I got a shipment of leather from The Unicorn Woman.
It came packaged well and it came pretty really fast!
Got some Pliver and Skiver
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Contstruction
Here’s how I made the saddle in this post.
I used Rio Rondo’s alternative pattern and picked the Dropped Front Rigging assembly.
Then I cut out the pieces
and tooled it. Then I outlined it with a black marker. Afterwards I dyed it with a chestnut color.
Assembling it was pretty easy.
Using Riversong Musing’s how-to on movable fenders I made, well, movable fenders.
Afterwards, a piece of chamois was added and trimmed.
And well as you know, here’s the result. With the stirrups.
My First "Resin" resin
Last night, my first “real” resin arrived! Phoenix is here!
She was wrapped very well,
and looks awesome too. She’s a very smooth casting.
I can’t wait to give her a new coat, and show her in performance!
That’s a new saddle on her too, the one from the tree, here! I’ll do a post on it too :)
Tooling It
Today I tooled my very first piece of saddle leather. After looking on line for how-tos I used a fellow hobbyer’s blog, Riversong Musings, and used her how-to on tooling leather to help. Then I used the extra sheet in Rio Rondo’s western saddle kit for the pattern. All in all I’d call it a pretty good first try!
Also, Happy New Year!
Kristian Beverly 