I Bit the Bullet and Got a Very Large Heiser Item - Heiser Model 39 Saddle

[boykinlp]

This saddle now resides in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. So it has done some serious back and forth traveling across the country in the last few years. San Juan Capistrano, CA to Arizona to SC to ID. I moved it along to fund something else. Some folks thought I was crazy having a saddle with no horse, but I could explain it because of my interest in western leather. But now, I have a saddle stand, blanket, and an extra leather strap, but NO saddle and NO horse! It sure was nice to look at!
Larry

 

[Onomea]

For you saddle leather guys, this seems apropos here, an article about the Ambler saddle, and a link to the song the late, great, Ian Tyson wrote about it:

The Ambler Saddle: Where Western music met rodeo history with Ian Tyson and Cody Bill Smith | TSLN.com

https://youtu.be/jad1R8As2Qc?si=UbqMz6hqOrGKzHFL

 

[boykinlp]

For you saddle leather guys, this seems apropos here, an article about the Ambler saddle, and a link to the song the late, great, Ian Tyson wrote about it:

The Ambler Saddle: Where Western music met rodeo history with Ian Tyson and Cody Bill Smith | TSLN.com

https://youtu.be/jad1R8As2Qc?si=UbqMz6hqOrGKzHFL

I like the saddle story MUCH better than the song!! It's hard for me to believe that a bronc buster could continue riding, and winning, on a saddle with a broken tree. That's just CRAZY!
Larry

 

[Onomea]

Or one too small for him. I think that's pretty amazing.

He did say he repaired the tree, as well as other parts of the saddle, by himself.

(Re Ian Tyson's Ambler saddle song, my wife certainly agrees with you! Not a fan, she. I, and the rest of my family, growing up in the sixties, were Ian & Sylvia fans. I still enjoy them, those folk recordings from way back when. Marvelous harmony. But I really like Ian's solo stuff, when he got into what a cousin of mine in the late '80s called "western swing." Lotta his stuff out there, if ya look.)