{"id":1823,"date":"2026-04-10T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:34:20","slug":"updates-to-our-page-on-leather-saddle-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/updates-to-our-page-on-leather-saddle-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates to our page on leather saddle repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Howard Phillips has provided some updates on repair services. And we continue with out step-by-step instructions on DIY matching good leather from one saddle with an undercarriage from another.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1318\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1318\" src=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7754Pound-rivetssm.jpg\" alt=\"Installing rivets to replace a saddle top or undercarriage\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7754Pound-rivetssm.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7754Pound-rivetssm-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7754Pound-rivetssm-395x600.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing rivets to replace a saddle top or undercarriage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Howard Phillips has provided some updates on repair services. And we continue with out step-by-step instructions on DIY matching good leather from one saddle with an undercarriage from another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}