Motivation...right?

Ok…I have tried to be merciful, kind, tolerant and patient for far too long.

This is killing me.

Have any of you recently browsed the tack section of Model Horse $ales Pages? If not, please do so before you read on.

http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/searchlist.asp (just go to the drop down box, select the Tack section, and click “Go”)

Do you see what I see? I see a plethora of tack, at what I consider high prices, for what I consider low-quality tack.

Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this?

I understand that people are broke nowadays, and tack making seems to be a big draw to make a buck or two. But, seriously, it looks like a two-year-old made that, and you’re charging what for it? Please, alleviate my illness and do you research before you stick a price that looks promising to the seller on an item. Because, trust me, that won’t look appealing to the buyer.

I have listed some of my tack for cheap, and I mean cheap online. But it never sold. Is my tack not worth $150, or even $100, or even $75? Please, be honest, and if you’ve seen my tack before, please let me know how much YOU think I should sell my tack for. Because I want to be making a good hourly wage for the time I put into a tack set!

Seeing the high input of low-quality tack at high-quality (or even medium quality) prices, I find it harder and harder to catch good-quality tack makers’ work, especially since I use photos of this stuff as references to help make MY tack better…

What do you think?

I personally think this means I need to make some tack just to give people something realistic to look at, even if they don't buy it.

::begins digging through drawers of leather and tools::

And please forgive me if I sound snotty :/

Tackmaking at the End of the Tunnel

This morning I learned that I have a customer who wants a bridle spiffed up.

(Once again, Blogger isn't cooperating. I'll check back later to see if I can post pictures.)

The customer is the third or fourth owner of the gaited saddle I made to fit the Peruvian Paso mold.

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Anyways, it was the first time I'd ever done anything so drastic as fitting the saddle to a specific mold - which turned out to be neccessary for that model. The Peruvian Paso mold is very short-backed, and his high headset makes his neck get in the way.

I wasn't comissioned to make a bridle, however, because the customer ordering the tack already had a bridle they would use with the saddle. I just said "It makes my job easier!"

Well, now, the saddle is with a bosal bridle - it's nice, but for some inexplicable reason the browband is way, way too short.

So, I have been commissioned to replace all of the leather on this bridle with new leather that 1). Matches the saddle's color, and 2). Fits the poor horse's forehead.

After all, the saddle has NAN'ed already - why not give it a winning bridle too? ;)

Tack Set for sale!!

http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/sales/view_details.asp?id=865961

All of the info is in the ad, but here are a few extra pictures for you anyways:

Working Western Tack Set now finished...

This is what I've been working on for the last week:

Satisfied? I am! This set was actually fun to make - despite the fact that I ran out of my Duco cement and forgot to order more, and ended up using Aleene's Tacky glue instead...well, it worked!



Halter Raffle ....

Happy Mother’s day, all!!

I know, I’ve been a slacker and I haven’t posted anything in a LONG time, but hopefully I’ll be able to get something up every week (or maybe more often than that!)

First on the Agenda…a Halter raffle!!

I made this halter yesterday A.M. in hopes of raffling it off…here is a link to my MH$P ad…

http://www.modelhorsesalespages.com/sales/view_details.asp?id=851677

All of the info you need is in there – hope to see your names on the list of entrants!

...It's Complicated

Okay, so you remember my new Roxy model, right?

...and you remember my last post...

...Hmmm......



Should I show you?


I guess I can....

So, won't you agree with me when I say that...this change was for the better! I hand-cross-stitched Lexi's blanket, and the saddle was really quick and easy - even though I was running out of glue, I twisted and pulled that tube until I had squished every single drop out of it.

Oh, and I finished some SMB boots for her, too...

I plan on getting a bridle done soon - beaded with a nice bit - and then I'll photograph the whole set-up and you can drool if you want to... :-)

Destruction!!

...name says it all....


Think you can guess what happened here?

I know, I know - crazy saddle destroyer I am!

I've heard that it takes a true artist to destroy your first work of art to make a newer, better one - and that's what happened here...

My VERY, VERY first western saddle - yup, you guessed it - has been demolished so that I can create something totally new and WAY better...

Watch for my newest creation!