Fort Worth Side Pull Bridle Fix

As you may already know, off the shelf FW products can be a poorly assembled, sized, and over priced.

In this tutorial I am adjusting the sizing to a standard Cob. The bridle arrived as a (half full half pony). Basically it was never going to fit any horse properly.

OK lets start.

Before. Good leather, poorly sized.

Carefully slice the stitching

Pull appart

Remove hardware

Trim length

Thin leather

Taper the leather

Trim the tongue

Punch the buckle hole. Ive

Thin the leather for the bend

Check buckle fit

Wax stitch fork & punch holes

In the correct position tap fork threw to mark holes on other side.

Lite punch to mark

Check marks

Punch marked holes

The pins needs to fit well. Not tight or loose

Start stitching. I have elected to stitch the way I prefer rather than following the previous patern.

Back stitch one hole prior to crossing

Twist the Crossover

Back stitch

You can see that I have not used all the old stitch holes. The original looked a little messy. This is the back side and the unused holes will not be seen.

Only a small thing, but letting an item go out with a blind hole is not a good look

Frame all done ✔️

Now to start on the brow band extension.

Keep an eye out for the next tutorial “Extending the Brow Band”