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New saddle from Wild Edge for 2021

drew13 said:
Having made a number of saddles myself, I would agree with your wife that the cloth/mesh and webbing can be purchased quite cheaply, BUT the buckles and rope used to build a saddle are more expensive. Check out the retail prices of 1” and 2” load bearing buckles like the Raptor or Cobra - generally in the $20-$35 range each and there are 3 of them on most commercial saddles. An amsteel bridge and prussiks will be another $15 retail, even a little more for Oplux and TRC.

Materials add up fast for a DIY saddle. Still not in the $200-300 range though!
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I could be WAAAAAAY WAAAAAAY off base here but is not the most expensive part of a saddles manufacture the (if you use them) the automated sowing equipment needed to make them?
 
Sad truth with the prices of alot of these newer products is people are paying for them if people refused to pay those high prices companies would be forced to lower them ...only time will tell the longevity of these products ie lwcg, beast, tetherd but if theyre truly built to last 30+ years and something you can hand down to your children its definetly a solid investment but only time will tell
 
Interesting thread. 10 yrs ago there was virtually nothing on the market dedicated to saddle hunters. It was almost all DIY contraptions or scavenging old products at garage sales. Wasn't it the Ameristeps that were like gold bars? Somebody would find 4 at a garage sale and they'd go for like $100...that's if you could PM faster than the 10 other guys scrambling for the deal.

Now there's a dozen kick-a$$ platforms on the market and we're complaining because they have the audacity to charge a few bucks for it? I happily paid for a Mission this year. Compared to the time and frustration of stupid DIY contraptions I've used over the years I considered it a bargain!

Don't like the cost of a premium American made stand? Fair enough. There's plenty of communist made steel stands available at America's retailers at a lower price. Don't want to pay for a manufactured saddle? DIY it like everybody used to do a few years ago and quit complaining. Personally, having gone through the DIY years I'll gladly pay for one of the high quality saddles that are on the market now.

Those that have been in it for awhile know these are the golden years of saddle hunting. May not be perfect now but it's waaay better than where it was
 
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