In the comments section of today's first post, Susan Bensema Young commended me for taking the time to file the sharp tips of my buckle tongues. I did not do that for a long time, and I feel retroactively bad about all the sharp, pointy buckles I sent out into the world. Sorry, friends. I didn't mean to hurt you. This is definitely a know better/do better situation!
The only saving grace is that all those sharp, pointy tongues were properly short. Excessively long buckle tongues have always been a pet peeve of mine. In fact, I wrote an entire post on the topic in January 2009.
In addition to sharing before and after shots of a pair of hobby buckles,
I also included several real life examples.
I was pretty full of myself back then. I really thought this post would permanently end the epidemic of long buckle tongues in the model horse hobby. Alas, I was mistaken. As far as I could tell, it had no effect at all. It's been sixteen years, and I still see them, although less often. I credit that change to the overall rise in tack quality, not anything I said or did.
Still, I persist. In honor of my cocksure past self, I present another blast of photos showing buckles on various types of real horse tack.
And with that, I'm done talking about this topic until, perhaps, another sixteen years go by!
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Thanks to that long ago post, I've snipped back a lot of tongues on tack sets I've bought. You've definitely made a difference!
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure that post influenced me to cut those buckle tongues! The timing would have been spot on. It was a light bulb moment and voila suddenly my tack had a more more “polished” and “professional” look 😊 so thank you!!
ReplyDeleteOh, this is a nice surprise. I did not expect anyone to remember than post except me. Thank you!
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