Does anyone have a link with some pics for lacing an old leather saddle? I got one for free recently, the name seems to be only four letters long and I can only make out the last three(I think) which are *DGA. If anyone can identify it for me please be my guest, it came of a 1980-83 U-08. I lightly sanded the cracked bits off and gave it a good mink oil treatment, but it seems to me that it will need to get laced up to get the shape back. Any other ideas are welcome since this is my first leather saddle. Thanks all.

I had a BADLY mis-shapen Wrights W3N so I thought I'd go for broke. I dropped the whole thing in a bucket of water for 24 hours. I then wedged a steel tube and pieces of timber packing longitudinally under the leather top, braced against the saddle rails. Two sturdy cable ties around the whole thing and let it dry out naturally for just over a week, then cut the cable ties. Result - perfect shape again. Treated it with beeswax and it's still riding and looking good. If I had to do it again, I'd put some sort of cloth, leather or soft plastic padding under the cable ties because the edges of the ties have left small marks that now show, because the saddle top looks so new.

Photos needed to show the finished saddle:





I don't believe punching and lacing with a leather strip would have been so successful.

Here are a couple of links I have found useful:
https://www.wallbike.com/content/butchering.html
https://miketechinfo.com/new-tech-gen...20modification
I modified a couple of old Brooks saddles and they actually brought more on eBay than I bought them for. Who knows why.