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. …
WSSaddles
You can’t wait for a Custom Saddle?
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 …
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 …
California Bound
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 …
Two Ravens
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 …
Celtic Saddles
I’ve had a few opportunities to do some Celtic work on saddles. Here is a saddle built for Marcia Bower who wanted some Celtic work along with some Shamrocks to represent some important milestones in …
The Cadillac was Purple…
“The chaps were purple, the Cadillac was purple, the sky was 1950’s blue….”. I kept thinking of these lyrics from the Ian Tyson song “Casey Tibbs” as I was working on this latest saddle now …
Back in the Shop
After of bit of a whirlwind in early 2015 things are starting to settle down again in the shop. I logged over 5500 miles in the truck already this year so it is time to …
Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering
I’ll be exhibiting at the Spirit of the West Cowboy Gathering in Ellensburg, WA, February 13-15, 2015. There is a new format for the Gear Show this year as we will not be at the …