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Oberon

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Regarding leather tack......

What is that piece of tack that you want but struggle to find?

What would you walk into a shop and go gooey over?
 
Close contact jumping saddles, with the butter soft leather and tiny weeny blocks. I could literally sit and stroke them all day, they feel so soft.

I think I'm going mad with all the saddle searching we're doing atm :D
 
It took me forever to find a comfort bridle (with the headpiece shaped away from the ears) with soft leather and a cavesson noseband!
I always go gooey over leather headcollars......... And seem to have a boot obsession :o
 
An super quality arab specific bridle with a cavesson noseband (not a crank or flash). Much better than cobbling together parts that don't quite match to attain a good fit.
 
I would kill for a comfort padded headpice for my bridle - pony gets headaches according to the physio? - the only one I've found was 80 pounds! Need to save up!
 
starryeyed said:
It took me forever to find a comfort bridle (with the headpiece shaped away from the ears) with soft leather and a cavesson noseband!
I always go gooey over leather headcollars......... And seem to have a boot obsession :o
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The KB range from Albion.
 
Comfort padded and shaped bridle with a plain hunter style nose band and brow band. In soft havanna leather.
 
Add me to the comfort headpiece and cavesson noseband list please. Something not to wide and chunky, no flash or crank and buttery soft leather. Yum!
 
Working hunter and VSD saddles...... Love them. ESP the Black Country saddles.. It's an expensive fetish though....

And bits. They fascinate me
 
A bitless bridle made in really nice English leather.

I've been through loads - my favourite in style was called a Corbin and came from South Africa. It was nasty cheapy leather and wore really badly. Every style of bitless I like is impossible to find in nice leather. The one I use just now is a bitless attachment for a regular bridle - but all I want is nice leather headpiece and cheekpieces, pref with a padded and shaped headpiece. Or Micklem style - that would do nicely too.

ETA it's a FSS plain hunter bridle I use to attach my bitless noseband to at the moment. Rubbish quality, I have to say :(
 
A comfort bridle that has no flash loop on the noseband and is wide enough in the noseband browband across the poll and sometimes throatlash but that has sensible length cheekpieces so they don't have to be on the top holes to do up and yes I know its possible to get parts and put them all together but why do pretty much all bridles have the cheekpieces so they need doing up close to the top hole.
 
I'd like a comfort bridle in cob size with cavesson noseband, in soft brown or havana leather, but with a slightly larger than normal noseband and browband. My horse does not have a wide head but cob size just isn't quite wide enough 😁
 
crabbymare said:
A comfort bridle that has no flash loop on the noseband and is wide enough in the noseband browband across the poll and sometimes throatlash but that has sensible length cheekpieces so they don't have to be on the top holes to do up and yes I know its possible to get parts and put them all together but why do pretty much all bridles have the cheekpieces so they need doing up close to the top hole.
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Jaguar so intelligent. Do full sized bridle with two sets of cheeks!
 
Black leather anatomical or super comfy for horse girth... with no elastic! nightmare to find :p Been drooling over the Fairfax one :$
 
Brightbay said:
A bitless bridle made in really nice English leather.

I've been through loads - my favourite in style was called a Corbin and came from South Africa. It was nasty cheapy leather and wore really badly. Every style of bitless I like is impossible to find in nice leather. The one I use just now is a bitless attachment for a regular bridle - but all I want is nice leather headpiece and cheekpieces, pref with a padded and shaped headpiece. Or Micklem style - that would do nicely too.

ETA it's a FSS plain hunter bridle I use to attach my bitless noseband to at the moment. Rubbish quality, I have to say :(
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What kind of bitless are you looking for?
 
trottingon said:
I'd like a comfort bridle in cob size with cavesson noseband, in soft brown or havana leather, but with a slightly larger than normal noseband and browband. My horse does not have a wide head but cob size just isn't quite wide enough 😁
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From what I have learned recently.....

The measurements for making bridles have been the same for centuries.

The issue seems to be that horse's heads have changed over the last 20 years.

Perhaps through the introduction of draft blood to make WBs? Horses have got bigger in the brow and nose but the tradition of bridle making hasn't caught on......
 
The people asking for soft leather - can you explain what you mean?



Bridles need to be made from 4mm thick leather from the back area of the cow - nearest the tail end is better as it's tougher.

If it's made from any other areas it will be too weak, stretchy and won't hold the stitches or cope with being under strain.

Unfortunately this means you need the premium cut of the leather to make bridles - and this is pricey.

The cost of a good quality hide for bridle making is around £260 :eek:.

I've just made a headpiece and padded browband in cob size - the strips of leather alone cost me £35 :eek:
And that is before you add on the cost of thread, equipment and time.

An English bridle maker working alone cannot compete with the prices of mass produced work from other countries. And the average horse owner can't afford to spend £200 on a handmade bridle of premium English leather.....

So it's an impasse :(

The only way forward is to make bridles and equipment that are hard for owners to find...hence me asking the question ;)

I know what I'd want (XFS stuff with a cavesson) but I'd like to know what other people want......:)
 
I never understood why it is possible to get loads of bling browbands but not Bling nosebands. I think there would be a market for matching bling browband and nosebands.
Also little leather mobile phone holder that could attach to a bra strap, for general use but also for summer riding.
 
Lovely bridlework in all size components, so that I could mix and match and end up with a bridle that not only fits the horse well, but looks tip top. Big pet hate of mine is seeing bridles with cheekpieces that are too long, I like the buckles to be at eye level.
 
Oberon said:
What do you mean by this?
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I can't buy an 'off the shelf' bridle that fits properly.

The grey needs a pony size headpiece, cob cheeks, pony noseband and a 16 inch (full?) browband.

The boy has a pony headpiece, pony cheeks and a 17 inch browband (extra full?). He doesn't have a noseband due to having an S hackamore. If he was bitted, he would need cob cheeks and a pony noseband too.

I would like to have good quality leather, but with soft padding on the browband and noseband due to them having fine skin.

Also no flash or crank.

I'm not keen on white lined, but I like black or dark brown, self coloured lined.
 
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