Adjustable dog harness

H-shaped harness for medium-large size dog, made in black leather with solid brass buckles on shoulders and chest.

Pretty close to this one.. only difference, in two years I got a little better when it comes to finishing and stitching.

How to remove water stains from leather

Last week a girl at the barn asked me how to remove water stains from her saddle.
After some search on my sources this is what I've found. I still haven't tested any of these: try on small hidden portions of leather, let dry and check the result before applying on the whole surface.

1 - more Water!

Wet evenly the whole surface, let it dry away from sun or other heat sources, then recondition with glycerine soap.

2 - Alchool / Acetone

Friction the stain, let it dry and recondition.

3 - Oxalic acid

A product used for polishing marble, in wood treatment and beekeeping. Be careful, it's pretty toxic... but it's known to work well for this purpose.  Dissolve 1-2 table spoon in 1 liter of water, wet evenly the saddle and let it dry. It will slightly lighten leather color but will not damage it.

Bridle-halter

Or halter-bridle, or haldle, or brilter... or my way to celebrate my return home from holidays, entirely made last week when environmental temp never went below 33 °C in my workshop...
Made for a cob-full sized horse but here's with Ginseng a, a nice cob with thin light head.
Black leather, stainless steel fittings, padded noseband and browband.

I had to find a compromise between toughness and lightness for both uses, as a halter and as a bridle: reins, cheeks, bit billets and noseband are 3/4" wide, throatlatch and browband are 5/8".

Both reins and bit billets have scissors snaps. I haven't shot pics of the reins, but are made in leather with rubber hand grips, with the center buckle matching with the bridle ones.

Custom reins, western style

I finished this nice pair the day before yesterday. 100% black leather, no more than 4" of linen thread on each one, for blocking braiding in place. 1/2" wide, approx 2.10 m long.

Waterloops:

Hand end and its thick braiding, 12" long:

Dog leather lunge line

A very practical and simple item: a 1/2" wide australian nut leather strip cut as long as Sedgwick back is, 2.4 m in this case

No creasing on edges, which are kept almost raw cut: lightly burnished, colored and sealed, in order to keep price low.

Another basic leash...

Dark havana version of this one. 3/4" wide, 1 m long, solid brass trigger hook snap.

Bitless bridle - 3

A more simple version of the bitless bridle: noseband cheekpieces are directly stitched to noseband.

Padded browband and noseband, black leather with same color paddings, stainless steel fittings, cob size.

Racing reins

Reins made for an american girl into racing.
Some specs: 7/8" wide, 58" long, buckle bit billets, 24" Equus rubber grips and black Sedgwick leather.

As their final use, I moved rubber toward bit billets more than usual equestrian reins. For the same reason they're also wider than common reins.

Rescue plan for an expensive breastplate

What you can do when you buy a Passier's Auriga breastplate but find out it's too small for your horse?


Simple! You can contact me and ask for 2 straps like these one.


Nothing esoteric, 4 loos and a buckle... but always better than baling twine!

Basic leash - 2

Similar to the first one, but tougher: this is made from a 3/4" strip. Same leather, same length (1 m), same finish and ultra-strong stainless steel trigger hook snap. Made for a male dobermann, previous one was for a female dobie (same owner).