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A barrel racing saddle should have closely cropped skirts, and should be crisp and sharp looking and should be lightweight and properly fitted as well. When deciding on the perfect racing saddle, there is room for personal taste in the selection of a barrel racing saddles.
Tex Tan Saddles come in a variety of price categories, colors, styles, sizes, and levels of fanciness. Barrel racing stirrups can be made in lightweight aluminum, and the seats can be plain, or made to resemble exotic animal skins.
The Tex Tan Fortune Maker II, for example, has hand tooled leather, aluminum stirrups, a suede seat with stainless steel hardware, a cantle that is wrapped in silver laced suede and stainless steel spots. It comes in either a 14 or 15 inch seat size with an Equi-Tex tree. With a natural antique color and hand engraved sterling silver plated trim. It is one of Tex Tan’s higher end barrel racing saddles and retails for around $1,600, with matching tack available.
The Tex Tan Rapid Rider Tex-Flex Tree saddle is available in a 15 inch seat size. It has stainless steel hardware, a suede seat, and is built around the Tex-Flex tree design. The cantle measures 5 inches, and the swell is 13 inches wide. It, too features a hand-engraved sterling silver plated trim, and is quite light, at 20 lbs. This barrel racing saddle sell for over $1,200, with matching tack available.
For those whose budget doesn’t run to four digits, the Tex Tan Light Speed saddle. It has stainless steel hardware and a suede seat, with a rawhide braided horn. It comes in a 15 inch seat size and is built around a Ralide tree with a 5 inch cantle and a 13 inch swell width. In a gorgeous pecan color it retails for just over $800, with matching tack available.
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Career decision help, PLEASSE!!?
Hi guys,
I am re-asking a question that nobody answered that I need some helpful/ insightful advice on. I am planning to undergo training as a jeweler, and would like to know if working for a retail or manufacturing jewelry outlet would be more “financially sound” than persuing to start my OWN jewelry business online? I will be working with gold, platinum, fine and sterling silver, as well as diamonds and similar-valued gems and materials; I would expect to make most of my jewelry inspired by vintage jewelry (1800′s through 1960′s), and a lot of people buy rings and necklaces as well as other jewelry from other places, so it would be a hot commodity…what do you think I should do, or what would you do in this instance? Thank you so much for your time in helping me out!! 
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I wish that there were an easy answer. Unfortunately, this is a question that many people have and the answer varies by person. Both options have their ups and downs:
Working for a company allows you to have a guaranteed paycheck but many find it boring and you will not have the freedom that you would if you went into business for yourself.
Additionally, the way that the economy is now, I am sure that jewelry retailers have suffered so it may be hard at first to get things started (at least right now).
With the limited amount of information that you provided, if it were me, I would work for an established company until things start to pick up again and then venture into business yourself. While you are working, try to use the time to build connections and network as much as possible.
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