Re: Saddle Rigging

[Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>]

There is a product on ;the market, I've seen in catalogs, that converts a
western cinch to an English style one.

chris

At 07:59 AM 3/9/98 -0700, AJ's Classical Gas wrote:
>Lauren Horn Wrote: 
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>>I like english style girths with buckles. If I found a saddle with
>>western rigging (cinch), is there any way to re-rig it to use buckles?
>>
>You sure can Lauren, I did this with a light weight western saddle for my
>daughter.  We even did the unthinkable and cut off the horn and capped it
>with a leather rosette.  We had the whole saddle taken apart and all the
>rigging checked for security, then off the cinch rings on the saddle we had
>a single inch and a half billet put on, it now buckles onto a western style
>buckle cinch.  I cinches very quickly and is very secure.  We also had him
>take the fenders off the original leathers and replace them with heavy duty
>one inch leathers to which we reattached the fenders (much lighter weight)
>and now we can use safety irons on the saddle for my daughters safety.  One
>draw back is the 4-H people don't like this....they aren't sure that this
>should be used in 4-H equitation classes, as it might not be safe without
>the horn..... and those stirrups?1?!?  :-) 
>Anne Kennedy & Horses
>(Dyskrete, Stuffy, Hadia and Tifla)
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>Jim Kennedy, AJ's Classical Gas
>(Yellowstone Park Buses, White Trucks, parts and NOS)
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