Summer back combing designs for the showing season?

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Ashf

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We have never done any showing so know nothing of this side of it, when it starts, when it finishes etc ?.

I'm looking to start making reusable back combing stencils for the summer showing season if there is a demand for them, so I need to know a bit more about the discipline.

I have been playing around with various materials to make them out of to find the best for the job and which can be machine cut (much more difficult with the tougher ones) and may have come up with one which ticks all the boxes.

One of the problems with designing them is that if you dont stencilise the designs, they will become more difficult to comb as there is less to hold the stencils shape when you comb them (like in this pic of a test piece)

Do you think its something which would appeal the to the showing community ?

Any comments would be helpful ta
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Do you mean like quarter markers? Ian Stark uses a thistle stencil and i'm sure I have seen Matt Ryan with a Kangaroo on his bottom. Having seen some in tack shops the markers have smaller holes so they still in place. (ie in your pic they would join in the middle) Don't know if what I have written makes any sense!
 
I get the idea. After cutting it, the test piece really needed spans across the centre of the aperture to hold it together. you could still back comb it, but it would take a bit more care, so just better to design the problem out.

I'd do much like the clipping designs really (monograms etc) for the back combing one, but would probably need to be less ambitious in the designs themselves as the lines are not so sharp when back combing from our previous experiments a couple of years ago.
 
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i'm sure I have seen Matt Ryan with a Kangaroo on his bottom.

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Sorry no helpful contributions to the thread though.
 
i think they will appeal more to dressage/eventers/showjumpers than showing types because turnout is so strict in affiliated showing.

But I have seen several rather impressive backcomb designs on eventers and showjumpers in the summer. Someone owns a very impressive GB lion stencil which is used on all the team dressage horses at champs the fine coats are backcombed then hair sprayed and look fantastic.

I reckon carrying on on this line there could be a market for showjumpers who have sponsors. That way they have another way of carrying sponsors logo (wonder if that would contravene BSJA rules?!?! LOL ) but it wouldn't be permenant like a clip so if the horse was sold it wouldn't matter.
 
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