Re: [CR]cleaning leather saddles

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:38:35 -0700
From: "John Wood" <braxton72@gmail.com>
To: "Tom Harriman" <transition202@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]cleaning leather saddles
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Tom Harriman <transition202@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> A good souses of information about this would be a local horse and saddle
> s
> hop. A good horse saddle can start at 5,000 dollars, and go up from
> there.
> Horse people take really good care of there saddles. This kind of infor
> is a little hard top come by in San Francisco, but I'll see what I can do.

Well, it ought to be easy to come by in Red Lodge, MT - I'll ask the horse people I know.

John Wood Red Lodge, MT - where horses most likely outnumber people.
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>
> Tom Harriman
> San Francisco, Ca.
>
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:04:24 -0500
> > From: cwstudio@aol.com
> > Subject: [CR]cleaning leather saddles
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have recently acquired a very nice Fuji leather saddle, which is in
> nee
> d o
> > f cleaning and conditioning, and am wondering about the best way to
> proce
> ed.
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > My first inclination is to get a quality saddle soap for the cleaning
> por
> tio
> > n of the process, and then use Brooks Proofide to condition it.
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> > If anyone has experience in this particular matter, I would really like
> t
> o l
> > earn more about it. Then I plan on riding the saddle!
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> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris Wimpey
> >
> > San Diego, CA
> >
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