Black Country Alternative / Leather Color Options

[Ceffyl_Dwr]

My BC Adelina has a broken tree. It fits my horse, I love the fit, but my only gripe is that I’m not crazy about BC’s leather colors and wonder if there isn’t a brand with better options. If I were to go with the Adelina again (most likely), I would order in some variation of brown. Perhaps Oxblood for the seat/flaps and Newmarket for the panels/gusset

1. Is there a dressage saddle similar in fit to the BC hoop tree (wide horse with a bit of withers)? Loxley? Bliss?

2. Can others share photos of their “brown” variety BCs? I hate that all photos online these days have a filter.

3. This would be a custom order, so I’m hoping to find colors in the spirit of a PDN.

(I posted this in Hunter/Jumper because I’m not looking for black dressage saddle options - only brown leather.)

Thanks!

[beowulf]

Have you gotten swatches from BC recently? I ordered a custom in 2020 and they sent me a digital swatch selection and there were a ton of options. It was really hard for me not to go crazy but I decided I needed something that would be easy to resell if it didn’t work out.

Sorry your tree is broken by the way. What a bummer.

[Ceffyl_Dwr]

Thanks for the tip! Emailing them now.

[beowulf]

No problem. I’m not in the custom game frequently so maybe my version of “tons of options” is different than others, but I do remember there were lots of welt colors, multiple seat/panel colors, and even patent. I almost went with oxblood with black patent welting but in the end picked plain old black because I know it’d sell quickly if I ever needed to get rid of it.

[McVillesMom]

Black Country Eden in Oxblood

Same saddle broken in

Black Country Eloquence in dark brown with suede seat and knee rolls

Black Country Ricochet in dark brown, brand new

My other Ricochet, also dark brown, well broken in

Hope these help!

[Ceffyl_Dwr]

Fantastic help! It can be quite annoying to locate and upload photos, so I appreciate it! @McVillesMom