Side Saddles - can anyone shed any light please?

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Hi all,

I'm looking for any info about a side saddle that I need to sell, but I'm rather clueless, and the internet's not helping much!

It is German, and on the label that's still attached it helpfully says 'Damensattel', which I think just means 'womens saddle' - it also says 'Kamw.2'.

Can anyone shed any light? How do you measure how wide it is? Also, how are the seats sized? I presume the usual pinhead to cantle measurement for English saddles doesn't apply!

It has various straps attached, but no stirrup - could you just use a usual 'English' stirrup & iron?

Any advice would be very much appreciated :)
 
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You need a specific side saddle safety stirrup and proper girth with a balance strap. i would suggest you contact the side saddle association for more info :-)
 
That's very helpful, thank you :) It has the proper girth, with a balance strap, just not the stirrup or any way of attaching it!

I'm just on the Side Saddle Association's website now, feel rather stupid for not thinking of it myself :o Thanks again!
 
Send me pix, I'm always looking to buy side saddles!! :D

You measure seat length for the rider from the cutback to cantle (UK method) and from the front of the fixed head (the one that it sticking up) to cantle (US method).

For tree width, well that's tricky as they were made for individual horses. I tend to compare against my own side saddle to see if it will fit my horse or not and carry a wither tracing with me. I tend to measure the gullet width (same place on a normal saddle) and then from the off-side point to the nearside point (kind of like a diagonal line as the nearside point is longer than the offside one). My horse is a narrowish fitting and her saddles tend to measure about 17" from point to point.
 
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If it has a roller bar fitting, then you can use a normal stirrup leather but with a side saddle safety iron. If it has the saddle's own safety fitting, then you need to know which fitting it is and buy the appropriate stirrup leather with matching fitting, to go with it. Some fittings are harder to find than others like the bull's eye one that Martin & Martin used sometimes.
 
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