There’s Roping To Do!

Katie Bane in Coeur d’Alene, ID, needed a saddle that she could spend lots of hours in without experiencing pain in her leg that she gets in other roping saddles. She does some ranch roping …

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New Wade Roughout Saddle for Sale

I was able to get a little “extra” work done between custom orders in March. I often get calls from horse owners looking for simple rough out saddles so I thought I would build one. …

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Forget-Me-Nots

Thanks goes out to Teresa with Dark Horse Enterprises (http://www.darkhorsealaska.com) for this custom order. Built on a Rod Nikkel tree this saddle features an in-skirt rigging place at 3/4 position, a Wade tree with a …

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Buck’s New Saddle

Buck is a customer from Las Vegas, NV, who operates Cowboy Trail Rides as well as Sages Original Seasoning. He wanted his company logo on the back of the cantle and his initials on the …

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Diane’s New Ride

Diane DeWeese needed a new saddle for her horse Chance. He has been difficult to saddle fit and we discussed this last Spring at a Bruce Sandifer Workshop. Rod and Denise Nikkel helped us design a …

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Nearly Two of a Kind

Three weeks ago my friend and customer Tony Jardine of Twin Falls, ID, called to see about getting a saddle made for him in short order. Fortunately I had a couple of spare trees in …

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Detroit here I come!

Teresa liked a saddle I made a year ago for the Sheridan World Leather Debut. She tried the saddle out but it was too long for her smaller backed Arab so we started from scratch. …

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Edelweiss

The Edelweiss flower is not a common flower seen on saddles. However, this flower has been requested by two of my customers in the last year. Cindy from Winthrop, WA, recently  requested this be used …

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Early California Skills of the Rancho

In June I had the opportunity to travel to Santa Barbara, CA, to have a booth at Bruce Sandifer’s Early Californio Skills of the Rancho. The venue was the Earl Warren Showgrounds, a classy horse …

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