Reflocking?

[lantairvlea]

I have an English saddle that will soon be 12 years old. It is a General Purpose Wintec 250 and has seen a fair amount of use both under me (until I realized it was too small for me, ha!) and under students. I have never had a saddle reflocked and figure it might be time. I would rather fix up what I have than buy a new one if at all possible.

I have tried contacting some saddle shops and the one I am familiar with that sells just about everything referred me to an English-specific shop, but the big English tack/appearal shop has no one to refer because the guy they used recently retired so I'm not quite sure where to go from there. While there is more English type events going on here than there used to be Arizona is still a very Western-oriented state.

But here are some questions for those more in the know than me:

How do you know your saddle needs to be restuffed?
How often should it be done?
Would you recommend anyone who might accept a mail-in? (You can message me on that one.)

I use the saddle on a few of my horses and I am not noticing any weird sweat patterns or soreness, but my goal is prevention and I'd rather not wait around until it becomes a problem.

Thanks in advance!