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09/19/2024

I had my three months evaluation with my heart surgeon yesterday. My breastbone has healed, which is good. The muscles are still a ways out. It hurts to sneeze or cough. But overall the Doctor says I'm doing great. He removed my restrictions, which was really just lifting no more than eight pounds. So now if I do something and it hurts, I'll stop. Well that's what I'm supposed to do. Lol. So looks like I'll be climbing ice this winter. If not by December, certainly by the Ice Festival in February. Thanks to all for the prayers, encouragement and the support through this journey.

I found a few photos of me in my first saddle shop. Approximately 1996, I think.
01/01/2021

I found a few photos of me in my first saddle shop. Approximately 1996, I think.

I received this nice text message from a customer.
06/05/2019

I received this nice text message from a customer.

Over the past twenty years, saddles with airbags have become more and more popular. After a while, many owners of these ...
04/04/2019

Over the past twenty years, saddles with airbags have become more and more popular. After a while, many owners of these saddles have found that their ability to maintain the air inside the saddle has increasingly dwindled. The only real solution to this is to remove the airbags, and replace with flocking.

Here I have a series of photos showing an airbag being removed, a short video of flocking with wool, and some photos, with commentary, about airbags.

Hope this is informative.

04/03/2019

Bought 16lbs of wool roving yesterday, to flock saddles with. It's by far the best flocking available. I buy roughly this amount every year.

Colorful flocking, from an old Passier. I suspect it's from the late 70's. It appears to be a synthetic blend, which is ...
02/12/2018

Colorful flocking, from an old Passier. I suspect it's from the late 70's. It appears to be a synthetic blend, which is not uncommon, and a byproduct of the garment industry. Very cool.

11/01/2017

There is a Saddler, in the Michigan area, who uses animal hair, hog bristle/horse hair mix is what I think it is, to flock saddles. The Saddler claims it's a traditional method of flocking. While technically right, as back in the day it was used in Calvary saddles, and may have even been used in early versions of English saddles, no modern day production saddles are flocked with it. It's nasty stuff, and when it's added to a saddle that is already wool flocked, it's a mess.

Part of the issue is the technique the Saddler uses to put it in the panel, which I call it "jam and pack", which results in hard, lumpy spots in the panel. Panels should be flocked by layering the wool. If more is needed in an area, you layer it in, not disturbing the flocking that is closest to the horse.

Anyways, here is a video of me removing this material from a panel, so I can flock it with wool. Note the nasty dust from it.

I've been working on saddles for nearly 20 years. I thought I'd seen it all, but today was a first. Someone flocked a sa...
11/01/2017

I've been working on saddles for nearly 20 years. I thought I'd seen it all, but today was a first. Someone flocked a saddle, I suspect a non Saddler did this, hopefully, using steel wool. Unreal.

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