Probably safer for your pocketbook too. Abbey has some ‘really’ nice saddlemakers products and it is easy to go down a rabbit hold and buy this and that for future use.
Yes, he’s very insistent on using real wool.
Good question lol. I guess I should ask how much to order.
The only thing I know is that a little can go a long way when making changes…1 lb of wool could be a lot of wool to bump up / adjust saddles, but not enough to strip/re-flock one?
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I actually do not know by weight how much wool to order for a complete reflock. I tend to order in bulk.
What is the shipping weight of what you mean by « bulk »?
I just ask for boxes or bags of wool depending on where I am ordering. So either 18x18x24 box or large garbage bags (the 40 gallon plus) bags of stuffed full of wool and multiple box or bags at a time.
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Curt at Smith Worthington in Hartford, CT did exactly this with a first generation (Aussie-made) Bates close contact saddle I had. The panels had gussets and thus could be “3-D” enough to work with wool. I hauled my horse to their parking lot in industrial Hartford, had Curt fit the horse then and there and got it done. It worked fine. It will work fine, I suspect, so long as the panels have gussets and were made to have some depth to them/were basically the right shape for the horse’s back if filled with the flocking in the thicknesses in various places that the horse needs. Perhaps, too, it helped that my panels were leather? I don’t know what to say about the effects of doing this in synthetic panels.
