Category: Skivings

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...

Two years ago I built a saddle for Wendy who does a lot of trail riding with her husband Harry all over the West. Wendy and Harry ride mules and this time around it...

Alex needed a new rig for working cattle in the Columbia Basin. His order is what we saddle maker’s call “a dream order”. It is a dream order in that he gave me a...

Lucy was looking for a light weight 3B saddle for her QH gelding. Working with tree maker Dusty Smith we came up with a tree that fit the bill. This saddle came in at...

Danny wanted a ranch style saddle for his Peruvian Paso horse and wanted it with a little “style”. This saddle features a Wade tree by Dusty Smith. The silver work is the creation of...

Teresa is a returning customer for whom I built a saddle two years ago. She ordered another tree just after we finished her first saddle and we just finished this saddle in October. Teresa...

Carol needed a saddle to ride some long days in the mountains on her Fjord gelding. Mezlo is the gelding’s name and he is one of the widest backed horses we’ve seen. Working together...

Well it’s been a little over a month since I first posted anything on this project. First let me give some kudos to those artists who helped me along the way to completing this...