When the bit you need isn’t sold anywhere, what can you do? Read on in this guest post from Katherine Bone of Barefoot Appaloosa Studios to find out.
All in National Model Tack Month
When the bit you need isn’t sold anywhere, what can you do? Read on in this guest post from Katherine Bone of Barefoot Appaloosa Studios to find out.
Here's round three of the NMTM winners! Hopefully we'll make it through the remaining thirty or so of the finished projects.
Safety first! The next post in the Essential Skills series deals with some common safety issues in tack making.
Yesterday's Essential Skills post covered dyeing, and there's SO MUCH to say about it. I almost included the following, but decided that a separate post was warranted. So here it is - the postscript.
Most tack makers have a similar progression: we begin with whatever we can scavenge and make, moving on to better materials as our skills outgrow cobbled together supplies. One of the natural parts of this progression is realizing that you cannot rely on found leather. There comes a point when you decide that you need to take the jump and buy natural leather. Unless you intend to only make light oil western pleasure saddles forever, you'll need some dye to go along with it.
