Turning Western Stirrups

Fresh out of MIL's, but my son is getting married soon which means



OH noes

I have to get my own broom!

Subbing so I can find this later. Got a gazillion year old saddle I am reconditioning (happens to be the only saddle that REALLY fits my horse, go figure) but leather is real stiff right now. Not sure how to make this work with the lace up... But where there's a will, there's a way.

My leathers are soaking, I have deliberately put parts of my nice saddle in a bowl of warm water to soak, and I'm not all scared, no sir, not me, not scared at all

Well managed to get them turned, and tied them off with cord for now



Now we wait to see what we have in the morning when they dry.

Yippee, done it!

This is what it looks like this morning with no strapping on






And this is what it looked like before

Thank you Iridehorses, great idea. I did mine and it worked slicker than snot on a doorknob.