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Peter Lyon
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posted 07-07-2006 05:32 PM     Profile for Peter Lyon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I have finally finished my plans for the Henry V saddle. I have drawn the saddle as it might have been when used for the funeral procession, for example with the lost bits replaced.

They are on six sheets of A1 paper, at full size. The sheets are: side plate details; front bow details; cantle details; overall side view; plan view; underside view. Detail drawings of items of special interest, such as the stirrup bar, front rings, etc, and many notes about both the original items and the saddle as it exists today (damage received over the centuries etc). These are the drawings I used when building my own saddle, and were a valuable tool in fixing the details and relationships in my mind. I took the basic dimensions supplied by Westminster Abbey Museum plus the 1972 conservation photos, scanned and printed them to full size, and cross-referenced them to get the sizes as exact as possible. This has been a major exercise in itself, even before making the saddle.

I am making copies available at NZ$180 (or $202.50 including GST within NZ) plus delivery cost to your part of the world. I will also include brief notes on important things for building this saddle; eventually I want to expand this into a booklet that covers all the research and construction notes, plus ongoing notes about using the saddle, but with my usual workload, this will be shaping up over the next few years rather than months. My current intention is to keep in touch with anyone who buys the plans, and send updates and expanded notes as they happen, so I guess that will make it a "living document" to use the current parlance.

Whether you want to make an exact replica, learn more about the saddle for making your own version, or research, I think they will prove valuable.

Questions are welcome, either here or PM'd. My scanner is down at the moment, but hopefully in a week or so I will be able to post some sample A4-size scans.


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Peter Lyon
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posted 07-15-2006 03:00 AM     Profile for Peter Lyon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Some sample scans are viewable here:
http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=4

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