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Old 12-29-07 | 01:51 AM
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How to recover your saddle

Not sure if his has been posted already, but you guys seem to like DIY stuff:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Cove...-real-leather/

I did not write it, but thought it was pretty well done.
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Old 12-29-07 | 07:11 PM
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Pretty sweet.
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Old 12-29-07 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Hirohsima
Not sure if his has been posted already, but you guys seem to like DIY stuff:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Cove...-real-leather/

I did not write it, but thought it was pretty well done.
So... turn a **** saddle into a really bad brooks?
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Old 12-29-07 | 07:47 PM
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it can also be done with marine vinyl as shown in our DIY thread
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Old 12-29-07 | 07:47 PM
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I've done this sort of thing before, it's a good way to end up with a decent saddle. Plainly you have to make sure the saddle you want to recover is worth the effort because this isn't a way to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear by any stretch of the imagination.
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