Quick Q for saddlers/saddle fitters please....

[Hippona]

.....just to clarify..

the fit of a saddle ( ie..narrow/medium/wide) is actually determined by the gullet width and is stamped on the stirrup bar usually?

So a saddle with M stamped on the stirrup bar....no matter how wide it is lower down between the stuffing......is a medium fit?


( it hasn't been altered or had a new tree out in or anything BTW)


Cheers muchly

 

[s4sugar]

To put it simply - no.

The width is determined by the angle of the points rather than the gullet and I've never had a saddle with anything other than "made in England" stamped on the stirrup bars.

 

[Hippona]

Really?

Several of mine are stamped with the width on the stirrup bars.....Ideal and Jeffries.

Angle of points is perhaps what I'm meaning.....the width accross the top that clears withers/spine determines the fit....not how wide the saddle is accross the front where the knee rolls are...?

Are you a saddle fitter?