Ghost saddle

kaiserchief said:
EDITED - sorry! Should have read the opening post better - an Edix round skirt. I'll Google it! :)
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Hello! Yes that's the one. There are only two or three stockists in the UK that I know of, so you'll have to wait for it to get through customs etc, but I do like mine a lot and feel it was worth the price tag. The only thing I would say is to buy the merino backed type rather than the felt one with the jazzy Western patterns; the felt ones are so thick that there's known to be a bit of a manufacturing issue with them in that the bottom layer of felt basically gets rucked up while being stitched. I think they're aware of it and I'm sure they'll be working to fix it.

I liked my merino one so much that I bought a felt one too, but Edix, via the UK company I bought from, ended up refunding me because it wasn't actually usable on a horse without being fixed by my local saddler. They were very straightforward about it, and good to deal with, but when you're shipping something in from Europe the wait is long enough anyway without running the risk of needing a replacement for a NQR product.

ETA oh yes and the sizing is quite large (I guess because conventional Western saddles are quite long). I have a piccolo Ghost and bought an Edix roundskirt Small in the merino. Large would swamp my saddle a bit, I think.
 
That looks really cool. Does it work OK without a shimmed pad underneath? The panels seem to me to be on par with the panels on a treed saddle so I'm struggling to ratify why I would need to use a shimmed pad under a Ghost (never had this train of thought with other panel-less treeless saddles where the need for a shimmed pad was obvious). Thank you :)
 
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