Shiny bridle

For some reason I have large amounts of leathers I can NOT use very well for model horses... Like that blingy-surfaced and THICK leather. Not flexible, not easy to cut, not possible to thin! Or then I am ridiculously bad with this. At least I can say I don't own the right tools what comes to thinning leather. 

Anyway. For random tackmaking attack I can use this leather, so I have at least one example of what thick, over-wide-strap bridle looks. I can't cut it narrow because then it quickly becomes thicker than it's width.

And my favorite leather is ending, aaaagh!! No idea where to get more of it.