Great job! I work at a saddle shop with a friend and clean saddles for him, The tip with the Dremel head was genius, Suede seats are always a bear but yours looked great.
Thank you! So glad it was helpful. My pricing varies greatly because each saddle is so unique. I've even cleaned two of the "same" saddles (same design, year, and maker), and they've been wildly different each time. I've found that having an hourly rate seems to be the most fair. Average price starts at $100 and goes up from there depending on repairs, or difficulty of the cleaning.
Great question! Warm water, saddle soap, or mild dish soap (depending on how dirty it is), and a soft bristle toothbrush. If you scrub too hard, especially when the leather is wet, you can damage the tooling, and take the finish off the leather. Trust the process and take it slow :)
Scuffs and scratches are typically permanent. But applying a good conditioner will make them less obvious. I personally recommend Skidmore’s leather cream. It does great for saddles in my climate.
Great question! There are so many leather products out there, and unfortunately that is one I’ve never tried. If you do decide to try it, I recommend picking a small inconspicuous area of the saddle to test on first. 👍
@@hangingarrowsaddlecleaning to add onto this question, have you ever had problems with the olive oil rotting and ultimately rotting the leather? I'd wonder about this in humid climates...
Wonderful video ! I’ve just started a small business cleaning saddles . I’ve been asked to clean my 1st western and the fenders and seat need to be roughed out. Question : is it best to rough out first or as in your video a light wash and dry and then rough out ?
@@janicewoods6865 great question! I recommend cleaning it first to keep from pushing the dirt further into the fibers. I also find the leather easier to rough out when it’s clean and less prone to damage.
@@hangingarrowsaddlecleaning thank you so much ! I’m super comfortable with English, and now excited to venture into western . The name of my company is Tack Nutrition and I’m so pumped about the finish products once cleaned . Thanks again . I hope you don’t mind if I reach out occasionally.
I know a lot of leather workers like it. I don't personally use it because I have other conditioners that I prefer for my climate. There are lots of wonderful products out there though!
@@lisaande51 Wonderful! So glad it worked out well! I'd love to see your results. Feel free to email them to me at hangingarrowsaddles@gmail.com or send them to me through Instagram/Facebook!
Well you missed the part that everybody wanted to see which is you washing the saddle how much water that you put on the leather and what you watched the rough out leather with that's why we watch the video we didn't watch it to watch you clean slick leather which is not hard we watched it so that we could see what you put on the leather how you wash the leather and what you washed it with and how wet the leather was so this was just a wasted video and a waste of anybody's time that wanted to watch how you clean a rough out saddle and just for you you are wrong I imagine nobody and I know of and I have Cowboyed a thousand miles I've ridden started over 600 Bronx trained over 250 of them into cutters I should say money earning cutters and I don't know anybody that puts oil on a rough out saddle having a rough out seat and saddle in nearly every saddle I've ever owned the black just gets on there no matter what look at any saddle over a period of time that has been rode much that has rough out leather and the fenders and mostly the seat and the sides of the seed will be very dark brown to Black it's just what happens it has nothing to do with somebody oiling it it has something to do with nobody cleaning it before it got that bad I'm sorry there's no punctuation and I'll be lucky if this phone even repeats what I am saying into it I am at the Futurity working some horses for tomorrow thank you for not showing us what we wanted to see
Hello sir, thanks for your input. If you'd like more info or have legitimate questions, just watch my other videos, or go to my social media pages. Please note I am not a professional photographer, videographer, or youtuber. These videos are purely for educational purposes, and are made and edited by me without any professional equipment. I don't make a dime on any of the videos I post here, and I spend HOURS creating them. So, while I apologize that you didn't find what your looking for, I am not remotely apologetic for the what content I have been able to release in my minimal spare time. If you watch the entire video, then you'll see that the results speak for themselves. I take great pride in the work I do on each saddle that comes into my shop, and I strive to restore them to "like new" condition. I hope you find what you're looking for, but in the meantime thanks for adding views to my video! -HASC
Tommy, I found this video very helpful. You could have went along with your day and found a different UA-cam vid to watch but you wasted your own time to say not super necessary things to this gal. Go train a bronc to be a cutter bud.
Great video! I would love to see how you take apart a saddle for cleaning. Primarily removing different types of conchos. Thank you for your content!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and very good knowledge. Beautiful work
Great job! I work at a saddle shop with a friend and clean saddles for him, The tip with the
Dremel head was genius, Suede seats are always a bear but yours looked great.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it :)
Love your videos, you are my newest instructor here on youtube university keep adding content please
Thanks for watching! I definitely have more videos on the way. Thanks for your patience as I get those edited and uploaded :)
AWESOME VIDEO!
Thanks!
This is great! What would you charge to clean a saddle for someone?
Thank you! So glad it was helpful. My pricing varies greatly because each saddle is so unique. I've even cleaned two of the "same" saddles (same design, year, and maker), and they've been wildly different each time. I've found that having an hourly rate seems to be the most fair. Average price starts at $100 and goes up from there depending on repairs, or difficulty of the cleaning.
Thank you🤗
Thanks for watching 😊
What did you use to get the tooled portion shiny again ?
Great question! Warm water, saddle soap, or mild dish soap (depending on how dirty it is), and a soft bristle toothbrush. If you scrub too hard, especially when the leather is wet, you can damage the tooling, and take the finish off the leather. Trust the process and take it slow :)
How do you make a slick seat that is scuffed up look new again?
Scuffs and scratches are typically permanent. But applying a good conditioner will make them less obvious. I personally recommend Skidmore’s leather cream. It does great for saddles in my climate.
can you use a darkening oil like Hydrophane on the rough out?
Great question! There are so many leather products out there, and unfortunately that is one I’ve never tried.
If you do decide to try it, I recommend picking a small inconspicuous area of the saddle to test on first. 👍
Did you say that you used extra virgin olive oil? Like the kind you cook with?
Yes!
@@hangingarrowsaddlecleaning to add onto this question, have you ever had problems with the olive oil rotting and ultimately rotting the leather? I'd wonder about this in humid climates...
Wonderful video ! I’ve just started a small business cleaning saddles . I’ve been asked to clean my 1st western and the fenders and seat need to be roughed out.
Question : is it best to rough out first or as in your video a light wash and dry and then rough out ?
@@janicewoods6865 great question! I recommend cleaning it first to keep from pushing the dirt further into the fibers. I also find the leather easier to rough out when it’s clean and less prone to damage.
@@hangingarrowsaddlecleaning thank you so much ! I’m super comfortable with English, and now excited to venture into western . The name of my company is Tack Nutrition and I’m so pumped about the finish products once cleaned . Thanks again . I hope you don’t mind if I reach out occasionally.
I love your videos! Could you please write what brushes do you use, do you recommend any brand specifically? I'd appreciate that! :)
No specific brands, just soft brass brushes if you can find them. Most hardware stores should have them. :)
I’ve gone through to the oiling. What do you think of Bick 4 conditioner for the rough out?
I know a lot of leather workers like it. I don't personally use it because I have other conditioners that I prefer for my climate. There are lots of wonderful products out there though!
@@hangingarrowsaddlecleaning got it done!! Went great. I’d love to send you pics!
@@lisaande51 Wonderful! So glad it worked out well! I'd love to see your results. Feel free to email them to me at hangingarrowsaddles@gmail.com or send them to me through Instagram/Facebook!
Well you missed the part that everybody wanted to see which is you washing the saddle how much water that you put on the leather and what you watched the rough out leather with that's why we watch the video we didn't watch it to watch you clean slick leather which is not hard we watched it so that we could see what you put on the leather how you wash the leather and what you washed it with and how wet the leather was so this was just a wasted video and a waste of anybody's time that wanted to watch how you clean a rough out saddle and just for you you are wrong I imagine nobody and I know of and I have Cowboyed a thousand miles I've ridden started over 600 Bronx trained over 250 of them into cutters I should say money earning cutters and I don't know anybody that puts oil on a rough out saddle having a rough out seat and saddle in nearly every saddle I've ever owned the black just gets on there no matter what look at any saddle over a period of time that has been rode much that has rough out leather and the fenders and mostly the seat and the sides of the seed will be very dark brown to Black it's just what happens it has nothing to do with somebody oiling it it has something to do with nobody cleaning it before it got that bad I'm sorry there's no punctuation and I'll be lucky if this phone even repeats what I am saying into it I am at the Futurity working some horses for tomorrow thank you for not showing us what we wanted to see
Hello sir, thanks for your input. If you'd like more info or have legitimate questions, just watch my other videos, or go to my social media pages. Please note I am not a professional photographer, videographer, or youtuber. These videos are purely for educational purposes, and are made and edited by me without any professional equipment. I don't make a dime on any of the videos I post here, and I spend HOURS creating them. So, while I apologize that you didn't find what your looking for, I am not remotely apologetic for the what content I have been able to release in my minimal spare time. If you watch the entire video, then you'll see that the results speak for themselves. I take great pride in the work I do on each saddle that comes into my shop, and I strive to restore them to "like new" condition.
I hope you find what you're looking for, but in the meantime thanks for adding views to my video!
-HASC
Tommy, I found this video very helpful. You could have went along with your day and found a different UA-cam vid to watch but you wasted your own time to say not super necessary things to this gal. Go train a bronc to be a cutter bud.
Punctuation bro, have you heard of it?
That shit is more a headache to read than Blood Meridian.