are expensive bits worth it?

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just wonderd really,looking for new bit, my lad is plain old simple snaffle, pick em up for around 7.99! used to only ride my old mare in a nathe/myler/kk etc but just wondered if there really worth there price tag??
 
i think quite often they are but evey horse is different. so an expensive bit that one horse likes, another horse might prefer a simple snaffle so it is trial and error. can you borrow/trial any bits before buying???
 
For me, the Myler was
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My horse goes best in a kk for flatwork, didn't manage to find a cheaper alternative that she went as well in so caved in.

I use a cheap and cheerful waterford for jumping though. It's just what works really, rather than how much it costs IMO.
 
For me and George, then hanging cheek mullen mouth myler is worth it's weight in gold, it has made such a difference to us. Having said that if a £15 bit had the same effect I wouldn't care, but I never found one that did!
 
My 4yo really likes his NS bit! He just seems so much more comfortable and willing in it and it was definately worth the money.

Someone on another forum said something that I really think is true when I was looking into buying the NS... you spend so much on a horse, so much on a vetting, so much on a saddle and so the list goes on... and then you slap a £10 badly made metal contraption in it's mouth and expect it to go well?! When we all know what a difference a bit can make, doesn't it make sense doesn't it make sense to pay a little more for quality?! Providing you get the right bit, once you've got it and paid for it, you've got it!
 
We have a NS hanging cheek lozenge, I bought a bit off ebay which was supposed to give some poll pressure but it was so badly made it didn't. I like my NS and would recommend it to anyone.
 
depends totally on the horse, and to some extent the bit. i won't use cheap snaffles though, esp single-joint ones, most are horribly asymmetric (you only have to hold one up by the joint and see how uneven the sides are) so the expensive ones are worth the money. also, some of the cheap ones might well leach metal into the horse's mouth.
the bit and the saddle are our main interfaces for communicating with the horse, and you only need 5 mins on a temperamental keyboard to get really frustrated with it, so i don't think it's fair to have a cheap rubbish bit in the horse's mouth.
i love Sprenger, Myler, and Hippus snaffles, all have their uses.
 
I cleaned all my tack yesterday, which included soaking my bits. I have a double bridle with a Korsteel Weymouth and Bradoon, whilst my 'normal' bridle has a Neue Schule snaffle. Put up against one another, there is absolutely no question of quality - the NS bit looks so much nicer, and feels so much warmer. I was quite shocked actually at the difference between them - and I will also say that since putting Elz in the NS bit, she has become a lot softer on the hands. Would now be very loathed to buy a cheap bit ever again!
 
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