Very simple tack question - reins

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I always prefer to have a thicker pair on top and a slightly thinner pair below, on the curb ring. I would suggest you go to a shop and buy them so together so you can make sure they are the same length and colour, as colour varies, as for the one's you have found on ebay, it does not state whether these are english leather and as reins are so crucial to safety I would not buy foreign leather in case they snapped. I also prefer laced leather rather than plated. I think rubber lined, as well as two pairs would be really bulky in your hands.
 
echo what tracey01 says about the quality of the leather, just not worth the risk with reins. Some of the forgien leather is truly shocking quality! Reins just aren't worth skimping on.
Laced top reins with narrower plain curb reins seems popular round here. Depends on if you might be using them for everyday (and so - in the rein) and if you wear gloves. As plain wet reins and no gloves is a bit of a pig! Rubber lined sound like a fab idea but I find them really bulky and uncomfortable.
 
I've just dug Nelson's out, that's a laced and a plain pair. Got those from Robinsons but they only come in black which is fine on Nels but Pads looks stupid in black lol.

Do you find even the narrow rubber lined ones bulky too?
 
always had 5/8 on top and 3/8 on bottom as far as I can remember, both plain leather for showing, top set rubber and bottom set plain for hunting.
Mind you that was about a hundred years ago.
 
I use rubber lined dressage reins on my mare's pelham, both pairs, bottom pair slightly narrower than the top ones, I don't find them too bulky and I have silly small hands, to match silly small feet! At 5'6" I have size 4 feet!
 
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