This saddle is one of five I *WILL* get done for myself to show at NAN this year. With NAN in my back yard, I could not pass up the opportunity to show pretty much every performance horse I own. My goal is to have NO tack changes at the show - so that means I need a LOT more tack! The plan is to make the following:
-Super-pleasure light oil silver set (the one pictured in this post)
-All-around set in saddle tan
-All-around set in chocolate
-All around set in light oil
-Gaming set (The theme for this will be unicorns - seriously. I'm going to tool unicorn heads on a saddle. The pad is rainbow...)
Anyway, here it is! I'm really happy with how it turned out. It seems like I try something new on every saddle set I do, so I apologize if me talking about the latest new thing gets old! This time, the new thing was these dogwood flowers. They are the first 'real' round flowers I've done, in that they actually look like flowers and have individual petals. I'm usually a fan of the roughly round thingy with lines in the middle to hide that it's just a round blob... This set also has a new finishing product on it that I LOVE. It really brings out the depth of the tooling way more than what I was using previously. It's amazing what a simple change of finisher will do!
T-minus 2.5 weeks until I MUST finish the other four... Oh, and fly to Breyerwest and work a full time job too. It shall be interesting...
Here's the saddle! It's pictured here on Mel Miller's Jasmine resin, the ears forward version. Tracy Eilers painted her, and is giving her a few more fun details before she shows in Halter, workmanship, AND performance at NAN.
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Good luck on completing everything and showing at NAN! I love your work :-)
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