Nunn Finer Bridles

[Small_Change]

Posting this in the Eventing Forum as you guys seem to use a lot more of the NF tack than I see in H/J land!

I am curious as to whether the Nunn Finer bridles seem to fit true-to-size? For what it’s worth, the mare who would wear the bridle most often goes in large cob and regular horse bridles.

Any feedback is appreciated. I have a few Nunn Finer products already and have been quite pleased with the quality, so am happy to order from them. I am more than open to other companies with flat bridles as well though, if there are other suggestions out there!

[Frivian]

My horse is usually in between sizes (his Smartpak Harwich bridle is cob size and adjusted to the last holes, and similar for his Micklem bridle) but wears a full/horse in the figure 8 NF bridle.

[barnmaven]

I ordered a figure 8 cavesson in horse size for a horse that always wears horse size. It was so small it didn’t even come close to fitting.

[Small_Change]

Okay, thank you! I’ll definitely be looking at a horse size. Much appreciated.

[Finding_Serenity]

I’m lucky in that I live close to Bartville Harness which makes Nunn Finer before the branding goes on it. My guy’s got a weird head (draft browband, horse throatlatch, with cobb nose and cheek) so I was able to piece the bridle together. However every piece exactly fit what the measurements called for and he’s in the middle for each one. (cheeks and nose measured cobb, browband measured draft, etc.)

Everything else oddly enough is a big big on him.

[McVillesMom]

My horses wear horse size in Nunn Finer and other brands, but I do order their bridles with cob cheeks because that’s the part that is always too long, on every bridle, always.

[WNT]

My experience seems to run that the nosebands are a little small, the cheekpieces are a little long, and browband and crownpiece are average. Typically, I’d see people match up a horse crown with cob cheeks for anything remotely dainty.

My horse doesn’t have an exceptionally huge head, and can fit a horse size NF figure 8, but I wish I had an oversized for him. Breastplates run big across the board.

Mind you, this is their US-made stuff. The newer lines of H/J styles may run differently but I don’t have the on-horse experience with those; however the quality and leather is very nice.

[clivers]

I agree that the figure 8 nosebands fit really weird and always seem to do up right on the lip…

[RolexReady]

Continuing on the bartville portion - majority of the NF tack is made by the amish store called bartville - but not every piece of leather. I cant speak for the non bartville NF products as iv never used them, but heres another vote for everything fits pretty true to size except the cheek pieces are a little long. I always switch those out. I think BoB may offer a “create your own” type of bridle - but they probably charge extra for that - bartville does not.

[rocky213]

Levi at the Bartville store, told me that their cob is like pony sized so measure your current bridle and get a copy of their catalog to decide which size you need. I see alot of cob sized Bartville and Nunn Finer tack on ebay and I know those people didnt measure their bridles first. My horse is a true cob size, but she takes a horse sized crown and noseband with Bartville. But, she does need the cob sized cheek pieces. As someone said above, Bartville will swap out pieces at no charge.

[Fred]

[QUOTE=Small Change;8955455]
Posting this in the Eventing Forum as you guys seem to use a lot more of the NF tack than I see in H/J land!

I am curious as to whether the Nunn Finer bridles seem to fit true-to-size? For what it’s worth, the mare who would wear the bridle most often goes in large cob and regular horse bridles.

Any feedback is appreciated. I have a few Nunn Finer products already and have been quite pleased with the quality, so am happy to order from them. I am more than open to other companies with flat bridles as well though, if there are other suggestions out there![/QUOTE]

I think we should see a picture of the horse in question, just to make sure.