A number of years back, my friend Pete Gorrell (a veteran saddlemaker now living in Colorado) showed me how he shims his stirrup treads. I add one thick layer of skirting leather to the inside tread of the stirrup, which is the side nearest the horse. As the stirrup leathers drape around the barrel of […]
Archives for October 2013
2013 Traditional Cowboy Arts Association Exhibit and Sale
In the morning I’ll head for Oklahoma City for a weekend celebration of the West. It will be my fifteenth trip to the National Cowboy Museum. We began this wild ride we call the TCAA in 1998…little did we know just where it all would lead. There has been many great opportunities that have come […]
Cowboy Crossings
We’re days away from our annual event at the National Cowboy Museum called ‘Cowboy Crossings’. It is a joint exhibit and sale featuring the work of the Cowboy Artists of America and the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association. It’s a great weekend of learning, growing as artists/craftsmen, and oh yes…a little socializing. It has become a […]