Here are photos of some of the mane hair cinches we have made. All of the
colors are natural and the patterns are all made by tying sections of the design
with different colors of mane hair.
Please click on photos to enlarge.
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This is a full view of a 29 strand
cinch I made for Pat Sullivan of Fairfax Station, Virginia. It is on
a saddle made for Pat by Bud Shaul of Wickenburg, Ariz. I made it to match a stunning pattern change mecate I
made for Pat several years ago. |
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Here is a closer view of the
Sullivan cinch that shows how I combined two chevrons and a small diamond
to create the end diamonds. Note also the three small diamonds I used in
place of a regular bar. |
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A nice close up of the center
diamond on the above cinch. Note it is nearly identical to the two end
diamonds. |
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This is the most complex cinch I
have ever made. I built it for saddlemaker D.D. Potter of Tombstone, Ariz.
He came up with the design and the old-style brass buckles and I put it
all together. It was very difficult to do this cinch justice in a
photograph as it was so complex. This photo show the center bars and
diamond as well as the narrow edging around the center diamond. |
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This is a good close up of the
chevrons I tied rather than using bars or diamonds on the Potter cinch.
Each chevron gets lighter in color and slightly narrower as it moves
toward the center. Chevrons are much tougher to tie than diamonds as they
must be tied in four sections rather than in one piece. |
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I made this cinch for saddlemaker
Bud Shaul of Kuna, Idaho to put on an old-timey saddle he made. Although
this cinch is made using only sorrel and off-white, it is striking in it's
simplicity. |
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Here is a closer view of an end of
Bud's cinch that shows good detail of the end diamond and the fancy
leather covered ring Bud provided. |
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Another close view of the Shaul
cinch. This one is a nice detailed shot of the center stripe and diamond.
You are also able to see the fine rawhide knot on the tassel, which was
made by Vince Donley. You can see more of his work in our Rawhide
Gallery. |
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Yet another simple two-color cinch,
but one that is more complex than it seems at first. Note how the sorrel
stripe in a white field motif is mirrored in the end and center diamonds.
I made this half-scale cinch for David Hewwitt of Austin, Texas, for one
of the half-scale saddles in his collection. |
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This is a closer view of the cinch
pictured above. The quarter laying on top provides a visual reference to
the size of this 16" long cinch. |
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These are two of our half scale cinches. Note the bosal
in the background to get an idea of the size of these two. They are
16" long from tip of ring to tip of ring. |
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Another pair of half scale cinches. The black one has
partial diamonds at each end while the sorrel one has stripes at the
ends. |
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This half scale cinch is a little different in that it
has speckled strands rather than solid colored ones in the center section. |
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This is the second full size cinch we made for Jim
Reilly in Carlsbad, Cal. Note the center section of strands are a
different color. |
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This is the first full size cinch I ever made. It is 21
strands on brass buckles. Jim Reilly in Carlsbad, Cal. owns it. |
