frussell
One Too Many
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I've made several pairs of cowboy cuffs for friends, but nowadays they're more for show than function. I always thought they were for rope burns and such, but a few old timers I've spoken with said they mostly wore them to keep from ruining the cuffs/sleeves of the few shirts they owned. The horsehair reins/mecates I used were extra prickly, the thinking being that the extra irritation helped signal a green horse to turn his head away from the pressure or prickliness. That may or may not be true, horses have pretty thick skins, but they do overreact to flies, so maybe there's some merit to the theory. I also tried softening some, with the same bad results.