Check out the bridles I am bidding on in E-bay!

Ok, tell me what you guys think of these bridles!!

This one, I am at about $43.00 Canadian right now.....

http://www.freespiritssaddlery.co.uk/ebay/FSScryBblk1.jpg


I am at $6.00 Canadian on this one right now:

http://images.auctionants.com/6-114568.jpg



This one, I am at about $5.00 Canadian right now, it is a double bridle..which I've only ridden in with the Lippizanner Stallion Tour.....so, still working on it..but I thought "what the hoooie"

http://www.kristin.uklinux.net/cobcrys7.jpg

Hey Eventgirl, I used to own a tack shop last summer-I could have made you one like the one with the crystals in it, in any color of crystals you wanted-I customized alot of my stuff. I still buy old saddles and fix them up, and tool some stuff for friends and family. Here's a couple of pics of what I made. The first couple are of my horse frank's bridle & breast collar, then I customized this saddle w/jewels, then this "saw it" breast collar and then some spur straps i made for this nice lady-I made alot of spur straps.

OMG THAT SADDLE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

You do BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!!!!!
I'll have to send you some of my stuff to get you to do that too!!!!!!

Ok I love doing it-do you have a bridle that you like/use alot? I can redye and tool, set jewels-fix it up like new. I still have that saddle-we will use it to show jett off in the arena next year-he's well Jet black and it looks great on him!

::shock:: o-m-g! that is gorgeous!

i got to go look for a bridle and saddle as beautiful as that::bolting:

I will definately send you my one bridle that I use ALL the time!!!! FOR SURE!!
YAY!!!!
Can you do my helmet too??? LOL

:eek: I love your work Franksmom! Does it take long to do? Thats really neat!

I hope you get those bridles Kim! Then when you get tired of them you can send them to me-LOL! ::rasberry

Eventgirl: No, I can't do the Helmet!!LOL But they make helmet skins-my daughter has one-pretty neat. You should get one with flames on it!!

Horsefreak: It depends on how much jeweling you want on it-I can do a simple browband in a about 30-40 min. They'er are two styles-one with the jewel sets-these are brass sets that go over the jewel and into the leather (like the breast collar), and there are just the jewels that are set into shallow holes drilled into the leather (like the saddle & bridle on ebay) I like just the jewels alone, the brass takes away from the sparkle-I only used real stones too-like KIPPY-swarski crystals-some people use plastic jewels-they are cheap-and you can tell they'er cheap-no sparkle!

For you guys I would just charge you for materials-cost of jewels, sets or dyeing-whatever you wanted. I used to get anywhere from $20.00-30.00 per 10 jewels set. Thats alot cheaper than KIPPY gets-have you seen the cost of their shirts & belts? Wheeew. So if you wanted 20 large size jewels set-(thats about how many go into a browband-single line) I'd charge just $20.00 + shipping, I pay about 1.00 a jewel for small counts, bigger the count the more they take off. They'er are 350 jewels in that saddle alone + the headstall & breast collar add another 25.

Can you do saddle pads and stuff like that as well? Coolers??? I will definately send you my bridle so that you can "Jewel" it up! Blue preferably, that is Adelrade's and my color. I AM SO EXCITED!! Where were you earlier, hey!?!? LOL

Sounds great! I think you can do an amazing job!! Have you checked out the site I posted with all of those cool helmets and stuff??

I LOVE THIS HELMET!! OH OH OH OH OH OH OH !!!!!!!!!!

http://islandhorses.com/forum1/uploads/post-20-1129586715.jpg


This one is cool too:

http://islandhorses.com/forum1/uploads/post-20-1129586768.jpg

Jeeze I didn't know they could do helmets-looks like a strip of ribbon or something that they attached the stones to. I wouldn't even try it unless I could see it upclose and fig out how they did it. Some stuff is done on machines-I do all hand setting. I wouldn't want to mess up and have them fall out of a pad-I don't know how they set them in there-like I said some of them are set with machines-like a rivet. This is what I do: I take a small gauge drill, drill a shallow hole into the leather-just big enough for the point of the stone to go into-and deep enough to be flush with the stone, I insert the stone to make sure it's a snug fit-take it back out-trim the excess leather around the hole-apply a little dye to cover up the undyed leather made by the drilling, apply jewelers glue in the hole as well as on the stone itself, put in the stone-go to the next. You can't ever get them out-I've tried-I put the wrong color stone in one and I used an ice pick to try to get it out-I ended up crushing the stone before it would come out-even then it still had a piece of the jewel underneath. I had to drill it out-that worked. the holes won't hurt the strength of your bridle either-they just go deep enough for the stone. I did research before I even attemped this-I bought a bridle with stones in it and took it apart to find out how they did it-done with a machine and alot of them went right through to the back of the bridle-you can see the point of the stone-thats way deeper than I go.

Looks to me that the helmet is getting ribbon pasted on, with the stones attached to the ribbon?? Am I wrong???? That would be a "Cheap" way to do it I suppose

Here are a couple more Lori:


http://islandhorses.com/forum1/uploads/post-20-1129493936.jpg (http://islandhorses.com/forum1/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=287990)

Yea it prolly is-hard to tell from pics-I would take it apart to find out though-depending on how much i paid for it!!! What's something like that go for?

The one I JUST posted, about $400.00

Holy crap-no I wouldn't take it apart!

OMG!! I AM SO MAD!!! ARRRGGHHH!!!
I was the highest bidder on this bridle!! 15 seconds left of bidding and I thought I had it!! I HAD IT!! Then this ##$@<hidden>$!^@<hidden># outbid me in the LAST 15 seconds!!

WAAHHH I LOST IT!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.freespiritssaddlery.co.uk/ebay/FSScryBblk1.jpg


Franksmomma, can you do this to my bridle if I send it to you????

Hey girl-yea I could-prolly need about 60 jewels-those look like the real small gauge stones. I'll look and see what I have, what color?? I know you like pink-think I might have a bunch of pink! If not I can get more. Hey the next time you want something on ebay let me know I have Hammer snipe-the fastest they have-3 seconds, they don't get any faster than that, those people wont know what hit them-swooop-in for the kill!!! You just tell me how much you want to pay and I'll get it, do you use Paypal?

Aww you lost your bridle...stupid $^%#@<hidden> dare she!!! Well she'll get hers in the end...she'll prolly get dumped off the first time she rides useing it...that'll teach her....LOL

Franksmomma, thanks so much! I appreciate it! I will need your 411 so I can send it down to you. BLUE would be a great color!!!! AND YES, if you can get me that other bridle with the Gold Trim around the nose band and around the Browband.

I wont pay any more than $50.00 Canaidan!!! THANKS SO MUCH!! I appreciate it!!! WOW! That's great!!

I was so miffed! I sat there with a big grin on my face watching the count down for that one bridle with all the jewels on it.....1 minute, 50 seconds, 40 seconds, 30 seconds BOOM I was outbid.

I WAS SO MAD!!!! ARRGHHH!!! LOL



Zeus, go beat her up for me will ya *wink*

Yea I'll look on ebay, Whats that come to in US dollars? I need to know, I have no idea what the exchange rate is. Oh yea send me a link so I can find it-you can go to email to a friend at the top and send it to me at franksmoma@<hidden>

Sure thing Kim...anything for you

Franksmomma, thanks so much! I appreciate it! I will need your 411 so I can send it down to you. BLUE would be a great color!!!! AND YES, if you can get me that other bridle with the Gold Trim around the nose band and around the Browband.

I wont pay any more than $50.00 Canaidan!!! THANKS SO MUCH!! I appreciate it!!! WOW! That's great!!

I was so miffed! I sat there with a big grin on my face watching the count down for that one bridle with all the jewels on it.....1 minute, 50 seconds, 40 seconds, 30 seconds BOOM I was outbid.

I WAS SO MAD!!!! ARRGHHH!!! LOL



Zeus, go beat her up for me will ya *wink*

Time to teach the fine art of making sure your not sniped, by learning "to" snipe! lets get em!

LOL! I love you guys!

Haha-Kim how is the bidding going? Stupid person had to get your bridle!

Time to teach the fine art of making sure your not sniped, by learning "to" snipe! lets get em!11-15-2005 08:44 PM

I don't ebay with out it! I pay for the extra services of being able to get down to 3 seconds! I have lost too many things to people who out bid me with out the snipe. Mine is Hammer Tap-it's hammer time!

Ok Lori!! The next bridle I fall in love with and cannot live without, I am PMing you or MSNin'g you and letting you know so you can bid on it for me!! You have to let me know how to get the $$$ to you though!!!

I appreciate it so much!!

I also need you to PM me your home addy and number so that I can send you my black bridle to you and $$$ for you to rhine stone it up for me!!



LOVE YA GIRLY!!!!

Ok I'll send you my address. but you have to send me a link through my email address of the bridle you want to get on ebay-and make sure you give me enough time to find it and snipe it!! I check my email at least twice a day so if you see something you like-give me atleast a 5 hour heads up-and I don't know what the exchange rate is from US dollars to Can. money-do you know? For instance-something is $20.00 US what would it be in Canadian?

*grabs magizine*

Uhh... a horse illistrated magizine costs $3.99 US and $4.99 Canadian... Does that help? LOL!!!!

There is a transfer of $$ differences on E-bay itself. It'll convert the $$$ into anything you want from anything. Which is cool, cause I get confused with the conversions between Canadian $$$$ and American $$$

LOL