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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
I haven’t had much time to do a spec saddle in the past couple of years. However, I’m waiting for some trees to arrive for my next set of orders so I was able to …
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 …
Michelle asked only that we not use daffodils on her saddle. She helped me design the wide border on this Wade saddle and let me run wild with the rest of the design. The saddle …
Over the past couple of years I’ve had some requests to do custom saddles where we utilize special carvings to express something very personal to the owner. I recently finished one such project for Frieda …
