The rigging on this saddle...
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Started out this color... (no pictures of the saddle prior.. so found something via google that was the same color the new leather was when I got the saddle.)


It took time and conscientious, regular, applications of warm neatsfoot oil that was worked into the leather... You don't want to try and darken it all at once as it will over-saturate and stretch.


" We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. "

"...But nothin' ever came
From a life that was a simple one."

" You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. "