Billets or buckles?

They're both called billets.

Stud billets and buckle billets.

I prefer stud billets because I think they look neater too.
 
prefer buckles as the side of the cheekpiece against the horse's face is then smooth leather without any bumps or edges of studs to rub a sensitive skin.

I've had a couple of made-to-measure bridles made with buckle billets, the saddler choose the buckles very carefully and they look very neat and smart.
 
I just thinks it makes people sound a bit clueless, that they don't know the correct terminology of an everyday item, but hey ;)


EKW, with you on the clips. I got a JW clip bridle with a horse and it's a horrible bridle.
 
Absolutely no preference. I must be a heathen in that I call them buckles and billets, as does everyone I know and I believe most catalogues I've read? - and my everyday bridle has billets with buckles on the reins. The horror.
 
It's a term that is used by Saddlers, we are taught billets are leather straps that go round the bit, the term billets is often used for girth straps too and in saddlery usually refers to any open ended strap that will go on a buckle, bit or ring.
Therefore, you have Hook stud billeted ends or Buckled up billeted ends.
 
I prefer the stud billets and I too had always been taught that these were billets and the others Buckles. But ths was made clear in a thread a year or so ago that they are both billets - just two different types.

I too have heard of girth straps being referred to as billets - American forum
 
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