Re: RC: Sport Saddle tips

[Linda Cowles <lindac@gilroy.com>]

For  Sport saddle stirrup leathers, I recycle my old dressage leathers. They
wear out at the buckle, which leaves lots of good leather for a Sport leather. I
usually buy nice leathers, so appreciate the double duty they do!

Any english leather will do. They need to be short, so when I'm recycling I end
up having to cut many inches off and punch new holes (with the drill - lazy!).

  -- Linda

i452601 wrote:

> Lynne -
>
> I really enjoyed your post with tips for the Sport Saddle.  Where did you
> get the 3/4", 30" long dog collars?  I recently purchased some 2" biothane
> leathers from Sportack.  After 6 rides the biothane is rubbed off at the
> ring and these suckers cost $60 a pair.   Fortunately, the folks at
> Sportack, where I purchased the leathers, are letting me return them and
> giving me a refund.  Janeen said the company recently changed the ring
> design from square to round which causes the problem.  Anyway the dog collar
> thing sparked my interest.
>
> > For stirrup leathers, I use 3/4" dog collars, 30" long, which work
> > *great*--the buckle is on the away side, stays down at the bottom similar
> > to a properly rigged OF leather.  I use Easy Ride's new plastic stirrups,
> > with a 3/4" spacer.  previously I used 2" biothane leathers, but the
> > stirrup bar is a ring, and the 2" is too wide, resulting in delamination
> of
> > the biothane at the ring unless you duct tape it or something, which also
> > makes for bulk under the leg--yuck.
> >
>
> Linda Hedgpeth
> Greenfield, CA
> lth@thegrid.net
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.
> Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/RideCamp
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=




=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net.    
Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/RideCamp   
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=