one more 'keeping light leather light' question!

[pintopiaffe]

Since y'all were so fabulous helping me with my bridle, :D I thought you might indulge me one more question... DQ's have BLACK tack. You guys know about chestnut, newmarket, london, tobacco and oakbark. :yes:

How do you prevent stirrup rubs on a light coloured saddle?

Or, if there is rubbing, how do you prevent that area from getting too dark?

You know how you see some saddles that are practically black under the stirrup... others can be old and well used, not terribly dark (some patina) and still not have that dark/rubbed look... ??

[pintopiaffe]

shameless bump for the morning/day crowd?

[SaturdayNightLive]

Honestly, I've never heard of anyone trying to keep tack light. Normally, in H/J land, we use oil to attempt to turn all tack the same darkish brown color.

[BAC]

Honestly, I've never heard of anyone trying to keep tack light. Normally, in H/J land, we use oil to attempt to turn all tack the same darkish brown color.

Yup, nothing worse looking than light tack in H/J.

[allikat819]

I've done a fair amount of work with light oil leather shoes and such.... the best thing to do is buy a good leather waterproofer, and then condition and oil on top of that (although lightly).

[rottngirl]

You know how you see some saddles that are practically black under the stirrup... others can be old and well used, not terribly dark (some patina) and still not have that dark/rubbed look... ??

If you are talking about the bottom part of the flap that gets dark/black, I think it's from the rubbing of your tall boots (or half chaps) on the edge.

In which case it's mostly the boot that is the culprit. If you have boots that bleed/transfer color, I am not sure there is much you can do to prevent it.

Good luck!

[Seven-up]

I don't know many people who worry about rub marks from leathers or boots because you can't see any of that when you're sitting in the saddle.

You might be able to do what people do when they take a saddle on trial-- wrap the leathers or cut off the toe of a sock and slide the leathers thru. I can't imagine going to that much trouble every ride, though.

[angrychinchillas]

Yup, nothing worse looking than light tack in H/J.

Seriously? Because I wanted, for many years, a set of caramel colored tack in which to show my chestnut. I think the look of light leather on chestnuts is to -die- for, and had I ever gotten said set of tack, I would've tried with all my might to keep it relatively light. Not brand-new light, obviously, but not the same blah brown that everyone else's tack is.

(Can you tell I'm completely over it when it comes to how similar everyone looks in the hunters? :P)

[Seven-up]

Seriously? Because I wanted, for many years, a set of caramel colored tack in which to show my chestnut. I think the look of light leather on chestnuts is to -die- for, and had I ever gotten said set of tack, I would've tried with all my might to keep it relatively light. Not brand-new light, obviously, but not the same blah brown that everyone else's tack is.

(Can you tell I'm completely over it when it comes to how similar everyone looks in the hunters? :P)

Seriously. Whenever I see light tack, (which isn't often) all I can think is that someone doesn't know how to oil.:lol: One person's blah brown is someone else's rich, deep, luxurious chocolate.

But I like dark stuff anyway. I'll take a super dark wood floor over that light stuff any day.

[Across Sicily]

Kind of not exactly the "stirrup mark" answer, but I've read (on here) that Pessoa Leather Oil doesn't darken leather.

[pintopiaffe]

Angrychinchillas, that's exactly it... I mean, I don't want it screamingly light--mellowing is fine, but it's the most lovely shade of chestnut/redwood (Passier) and I don't want it much darker as I have a copper chetty with flaxen and it looks STUNNING on him.

I guess it's similar to Oakbark colour--people want that Oakbark darker? Even on light chestnuts? I think it's lovely... now on a darker horse or a bay, havanna or chocolate...

[Rye]

IN h/j land, most people want the the tack to darken. Orange-anything looks bad. There's a gal at our barn with a lovely Hermes bridle that is screaming orange...looks horrid on a bay. they've oiled it and it's still a nastey orange.

If you don't want it to darken and just want to condition it, use Lexol.