Bridles and Butterflies
I have been mulling around the concept of lighter hands in my horsemanship and was thinking that if my reins could be held by a butterfly then I would be getting closer to my goal …
Saddle Galleries
A Southwestern Touch
This is the second saddle I’ve had the pleasure to build for Teresa Parker. Teresa lives east of the Mississippi now but was raised in New Mexico. She wanted something to remind her of her …
Nature’s Landscape
My customer wanted some work done on her saddle to reflect her joy in nature. With a number of her suggestions we came up with the following……lots of feathers, an owl and a crescent moon …
Roses in Avon
Mariah wanted a light weight saddle with some special features that expressed her gratitude toward riding and her horse. She designed the horn cap and I simply expressed it in leather for her. She wanted …
Greenville
Dr. Bob is a veterinarian in Greenville, OH. We measured his gelding early last spring for a saddle tree. Dusty Smith of WYO saddle trees produced the tree which is a wood post 3B with …
Dr. Jenny’s 3B
Dr. Jenny Wells wanted a saddle for her young gelding Picasso. We started working on this project last winter and here we finally have a result. Dusty Smith built a nice super light 3B tree …
Z-Man’s new Branding Rig
Zach kept borrowing his spouse’s saddle because he liked the seat. I built that saddle two years ago and it was now time for Zach to have his own ride. We built this saddle on …
Sunflowers Everywhere!
Heather asked that we incorporate lots of sunflowers on her new saddle. I always enjoy using sunflowers and they seem to be getting pretty popular as saddle flowers of late. We incorporated two different borders …