Category: Skivings

Peggy contacted me in December 2018 with an interest in a saddle that was very light in weight but could still be used for some work as well. We worked with Dusty Smith to...

I first met Kathryn and her father at the Early Californio Skills of the Rancho held at the Tejon Equestrian Center in July 2018. We were talking saddles and she was looking over my...

Meg had been having difficulty finding a saddle to fit her horses. She lives in Maine so this was going to be one of those long range projects. Kudos to Meg for doing a...

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...

Buster is a Foundation Western Morgan out of the Westwind Morgans breeding program in Belgrade, MT. This is his saddle built on a Rod Nikkel tree. The tree is a 3B featuring a 3.5″...

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...

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...

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...

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...