Used Saddle Pick of the Week: 15″ Price McLaughlin Reining Saddle
October 31, 2011 by Saddle Sense
Filed under Used Saddle Pick of the Week
We’ve been on hiatus for quite a while but we are back! Thanks for sticking with us.
The “Used Saddle Pick of the Week”
But you’ll find more great
Reining Saddles for sale
in our Tack Shop
Every week we scour the Internet searching for a particularly juicy bargain on a high quality used western saddle and feature it here on the WSG Saddle Blog. The saddles featured are listed for sale on ebay as of the date of the post.
Checking out our Picks each week will give you some great insight into buying used saddles. Make sure to click through to the actual listing to see all of the photos and description from the seller.
The Western Saddle Guide is not the seller of the saddles featured and does not make any representations about them. We encourage all potential buyers to do their own due diligence on the seller and the saddle before purchasing.
LAST WEEK’S PICK:
Because of our hiatus, we don’t have a “Last Week’s Pick” to report on.
THIS WEEK’S PICK:
This week a Price McLaughlin saddle makes its first appearance as a “Pick,” and it’s about time. Price McLaughlin was a very accomplished saddlemaker from Boyd, Texas. While he made a variety of saddles, he was most known for his reiners. But all of his saddles had one thing in common … high quality craftsmanship … and they’re very much in demand.
This week’s saddle is a Price McLaughlin 15″ – 15.5″ Reiner/Pleasure saddle. The saddle has definitely had some use but it’s been well cared for, still looks great, and has much riding left in it.
The saddle has a bit of flash that you’ll often see on reining saddles with silver corner plates and silver lacicng.
There are no bids as of this writing and the starting bid price is $580. That’s a good price for a Price McLaughlin in this condition.
We present the Saddle Blog’s Used Saddle of the Week:
15″ Price McLaughlin Reining Saddle
Check out other Reining Saddles for sale in our tack shop.
Used Saddle Pick of the Week: 16″ Crates Reining Saddle
October 7, 2008 by Saddle Sense
Filed under Used Saddle Pick of the Week
The “Used Saddle Pick of the Week”
Every week we scour the Internet searching for a particularly juicy bargain on a high quality used western saddle and feature it here on the WSG Saddle Blog. The saddles featured are listed for sale on ebay as of the date of the post.
The Western Saddle Guide is not the seller of the saddles featured and does not make any representations about them. We encourage all potential buyers to do their own due diligence on the seller and the saddle before purchasing.
This week we’ve found an almost-new Crates reining saddle that is a real dandy. I’m a big fan of Crates saddles. I own one myself and I think they’re one of the best production saddle brands out there. They make nice, solid saddles.
This week’s saddle has a 16inch suede seat, 6 5/8 gullet (full QH bars), with basket weave tooling on parts of the the fenders, skirts, jockeys, fork and cantle.
Reiners are close contact saddles that have become popular for use as overall training saddles and for trail riding. They’re not suitable, however, as a heavy duty “using” saddle.
In the photo you can see how nicely balanced this saddle is – a level seat with the stirrups hanging straight down. This saddle has so few rides in it that it’s basically a new saddle.
We present the Saddle Blog’s Used Saddle of the Week:
16″ Crates Reining Saddle Saddle
Check out other Crates Saddles for sale in our tack shop.
