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| Buying trophy saddle. No writing on it anywhere but where it'll be covered when I ride. Still, if I wanted to remove the lettering, how could I go about doing so? |
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| what about the flaps? I don't remember the name of those right now lol... The flaps over the fenders under your thigh  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | **Cowgirl Up** - 2015-03-28 4:58 PM what about the flaps? I don't remember the name of those right now lol... The flaps over the fenders under your thigh
They are called Jockeys, just use the saddle and dont worry about the writing. And if the writing is on the jockeys theres not much you can do about it. |
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| I've heard that you can file it out or grind it away or something??? IDK, I'm not too worried about it... Just kinda anal about that thing, I didn't win it I shouldn't represent it (I'm just weird)  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | **Cowgirl Up** - 2015-03-28 5:03 PM I've heard that you can file it out or grind it away or something??? IDK, I'm not too worried about it... Just kinda anal about that thing, I didn't win it I shouldn't represent it (I'm just weird )
Is the tooling real deep? If not and you are not ever going to resell the saddle, I would take it to a saddle shop and see if maybe they could rough it up and get most of it off, but I would be really carefull it could make the leather really thin. |
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| It's rough out jockeys... It's a cactus saddle, not sure if the leather is thick enough to do anything about it... I guess I'll have to wait and see when it gets here! |
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| hmm.Maybe you could have them add croc or something over it in a very thin layer
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | americanpride08 - 2015-03-28 6:16 PM hmm.Maybe you could have them add croc or something over it in a very thin layer
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To do that the whole seat and jockey would need to be removed since it is basically one piece. If she was going to do that she could just replace with plain leather but it wouldn't be very cost effective. Regarding sanding down the letters, it would depend on how deep the tooling was done. I, personally, would not recommend it as it would make the jockey really thin where it "wears" normally from leg movement. |
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Location: n.c. | Ride with pride!!! Who cares. Saddle was for sale, it was what you wanted, you bought it.
Ride on, girl!!! |
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Location: Centerburg, OH | oil it heavy and it blend in |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | If worried about letters don't keep it. No sense in getting a saddle if a few letters are going to make you want to destroy it. That defeats getting the saddle in the first place. Don't sand off the letters your leather will eventually rip. |
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Location: N Texas | I don't recommend filing it down. You will have to take off a lot of the surface to "erase" the letters, and if you don't sand down the entire jockey, you'll have an indention where you sanded down the letters. Do you have a pic? |
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