Horsewright
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We've talked a little about this before but I thought I'd post up some pics here. Roughout leather work is very popular in the cowboy world because of its durability. I was asked how I treat roughout and what kind of finish that I use. The simple answer is I don't. When making something out of roughout leather I oil it during construction or after completion depending on the item and thats about it. Thought these pics might illustrate what I'm talking about.
So last weekend we had out booth set up at our local rodeo.
So we started setting up about 2pm with the gates opening at 5 pm and the show starting at 7pm. Lots of walking around setting up the booth and then. Its a dusty rodeo grounds and I'm on dirt and gravel almost the whole time. Here's the smoothout boots I wore on Friday and am wearing in the pic above which was Friday before the gate opened:
Saturday a little different schedule but the same amount of time on my feet in the same conditions. Here's the roughout boots I wore that day:
And side by side:
So on Sunday after the rodeo I brushed the smoothout boots off and smacked the roughout ones a couple of times and both were good. I think the smoothout is just more of a dirt and dust magnet.
We're using this storage shed as a temporary tack room as we are having a new one built. We only have saddles we use on a daily basis in here.
The back of my saddle has both smoothout and roughout:
Nichole's is the same:
Our daughter's all roughout:
These are using working saddles and get cleaned a couple times a year. So roughout can and does collect some dust and dirt too but it just seems to me that the smoothout does collect it more. Whadya think?
Funny thing. We had three pair of roughout spur straps there at the rodeo and didn't sell a one. First time ever we didn't sell roughout spur straps there at that show.
Feel free if you've done any roughout work to post some pics here:
So last weekend we had out booth set up at our local rodeo.
So we started setting up about 2pm with the gates opening at 5 pm and the show starting at 7pm. Lots of walking around setting up the booth and then. Its a dusty rodeo grounds and I'm on dirt and gravel almost the whole time. Here's the smoothout boots I wore on Friday and am wearing in the pic above which was Friday before the gate opened:
Saturday a little different schedule but the same amount of time on my feet in the same conditions. Here's the roughout boots I wore that day:
And side by side:
So on Sunday after the rodeo I brushed the smoothout boots off and smacked the roughout ones a couple of times and both were good. I think the smoothout is just more of a dirt and dust magnet.
We're using this storage shed as a temporary tack room as we are having a new one built. We only have saddles we use on a daily basis in here.
The back of my saddle has both smoothout and roughout:
Nichole's is the same:
Our daughter's all roughout:
These are using working saddles and get cleaned a couple times a year. So roughout can and does collect some dust and dirt too but it just seems to me that the smoothout does collect it more. Whadya think?
Funny thing. We had three pair of roughout spur straps there at the rodeo and didn't sell a one. First time ever we didn't sell roughout spur straps there at that show.
Feel free if you've done any roughout work to post some pics here:
