hey guys so in today's video we wanted to show you how we like to clean our saddle they haven't cleaned it in like a month so it really needed it but what we like to use is Dawn dish soap but we didn't have any so that's what we're using today some silver polish some effects leather conditioner and some heats but oil and we also just use some warm water so the first step is to take off your saddle cover obviously and then to try to get your stirrup leathers off your saddle which is quite difficult for us apparently we don't usually like adjust our stirrups very often because we always keep them on the same hole so they can get kind of stiff but you want to make sure you clean underneath them so it's important to get those off so we just start off by wiping down the saddle with the warm water and soap solution we like to use a rag instead of a sponge just because we find that the sponge puts too much water on the saddle and you want to make sure you get every part of the saddle under the flaps the billets every part and don't forget to clean the underside of your saddle tube because that's where a lot of dirt and hair collects next we are just cleaning the stirrup leathers just with the same silk and water and then we clean the stirrup irons just in the sink with soap and water cuz they're metal so you don't have to be too careful with them so once your saddles dry you want to oil it it's best to do with thin coats and then you can apply several coats if you want we ended up doing two coats on the seat of the saddle just because it's not as dark as the rest of the saddle and it's important not to forget to get underneath the flax and the billets but you don't want to apply too much oil to the billets because they can get over oiled and stretch and eventually snap once the oil has had a chance to soak it and we like to condition our saddle with the effects leather conditioner just to give it a quick coat and it protects the leather and if your saddle has any silver on it you can polish it with some silver polish I just hug like a little silver button there so we like to polish it and that's it thanks so much for watching