06-28-2011, 11:08 PM
Hello!!
I think by now only two ways are proposed: saddle with wooden tree versus saddle treelees.
I really think there are another way: a saddle with a tree made of a combination of hard pieces who give stenght (the two "bridges") joined in a substructure of a semirigid material. I'm thinking in straw or a similar material, what is the material used traditionally in making the spanish saddles.
For the horns, i think is out of doubt is the most breakable piece of the saddle. I think there have to be made in a flexible material, like compressed straw between layers of leather. To give the form of the horn, the bronze covers are used, and such way explains the presence of the sewing holes in the border of the bronze covers.
Of course, all of these have to be tested... ;-)
I think by now only two ways are proposed: saddle with wooden tree versus saddle treelees.
I really think there are another way: a saddle with a tree made of a combination of hard pieces who give stenght (the two "bridges") joined in a substructure of a semirigid material. I'm thinking in straw or a similar material, what is the material used traditionally in making the spanish saddles.
For the horns, i think is out of doubt is the most breakable piece of the saddle. I think there have to be made in a flexible material, like compressed straw between layers of leather. To give the form of the horn, the bronze covers are used, and such way explains the presence of the sewing holes in the border of the bronze covers.
Of course, all of these have to be tested... ;-)
Cesar Pocinya
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