Category: Skivings

Last year I built a saddle with lots of sunflowers on it for Heather. This year her husband Paul had his turn to get a new ride. After riding in Heather’s saddle quite a...

I met Charlie at the 2018 Early Californio Skills of the Rancho. It was interesting to see a fellow from Massachusetts at this event as it was certainly a long way from his home...

Katrina said that Paintbrush flowers and antlers were important symbols in her family and wanted to have them used on her saddle. I’m not sure I did justice to the paintbrush but gave it...

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...