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 …
Skivings
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …