Advice Needed on a Spur Strap

[RollingThunder]

Hey Chuck, you'll be glad to know that Don Reeves, Curator of Cowboy Culture at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center is working on a book to define just exactly how the "cowboy boot" got to be what it was.

Think of it as "Packing Iron" for boots. 

[JD Alan]

Chuck, thanks for weighing in on the subject. I got my first horse at age 12, and sold the last two and a trailer to finance the adoption of our daughter, who is now 24. I always rode for pleasure, not work, and a result, I never wore spurs. In retrospect, there were times when I probably needed some! 

I apologize if I am seeking trade secrets here, but how do spur straps attach to the spurs when conchos seem to be covering the holes? It looks cool, but I have no idea how it's done, unless there are special conchos out there I haven't seen (Quite possible)   

[Ned Buckshot]

JD there is a seperate piece of leather stitched behind the part that the concho is on. It's the inside one that has the spur button hole.

Ned

[JD Alan]

Ah, the tricks of the trade! Thanks Ned, JD

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

           JD, there is a thread here in the forum, that I believe WC made that shows the process of hiding the hook up under the concho, and like Ned said there a piece of leather sewed over the hole of your hook up on the strap, sorry I don't have time to look this up, but it's in here some place.

                                          Regards

                                      tEN wOLVES 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

 Dear Chuck Burrows,

It is nice to see some practical knowledge and historical perspective on the subject... Looks like I will now turn my buckles back towards the inside to make them easier to reach with these old arthritic knees and hips

[cowboywc]

Howdy JD
Here are a couple of pix of the last set I made.
The first leather concho is big and can be sewn over the mounting hole. The second concho is held on but the metal concho.
Hope this helps.
WC

[ChuckBurrows]

JD - thre are in fact a couple of ways to button them on when using a concho:
1) The way Ed Bhlin and others did it was by lining the strap and putting a slot in the lining exactly behind the concho for the spur button - the lining of course was not glued down at that section.
2) The other way when the straps aren't lined is to use an added tab and ther are a couple of ways to adding the tab. For this style the concho needs to have a loop back rather than a screw post of rivet. The loop goes thorugh a slot in the strap and then the tab goes through the loop locking the concho in place

a) Way one is to make the tab Tee shaped and then slide it through the loop. The tab is put in with the top of the Tee placed towards the main body of the strap and the leg of the Tee going through the loop.
b) Way two is to run a straight tab through the loop and rivet it on the manin body side.

Here's a pic from the outside of the straps but you can see the tip of the tab sticking out beyond the body of the strap. I'll be building a pair of straps soonly and will try and remember to take some pics of the backside and post them here.......

[JD Alan]

Thanks everyone for explaining concho mounting to me. I have very little experience with these things (Duh, hence the questions). I have made an alternqative strap mount so I can use the spurs this Saturday-Sunday. Our club is hosting the 2009 West Coast Western 3 Gun match.

I used a couple of rigging holders from Tandy, and attached them to some Weaver Spur straps with a concho and extended length screw, also from Tandy. A little dye, and there you go, spurs and spur straps.

This is a temporary solution, until I get ones RT is going to make for me.

 

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Thanks to all you pards that offered clarification on straps and mounting. Great information.

JD, your temporary solution is a fine one. You can get by very well with that. It'll be cool to see the ones RT does for you so don't forget pics.