This is a saddle I made not long ago for a fellow from Texas. This is the third saddle of mine he has owned (he bought one used, and the other two were custom made). Some years ago, I did the numbers and found that half my saddle orders were for repeat customers. Within the […]
Archives for February 2015
The Calving Bag
I was trolling through some photos recently and ran across this case that I made a couple years ago for a rancher. This design was worked out to serve the needs of an every-day cowboy and conscientious horseman. He needed something for calving that was secure, accessible on the nearside, and could be taken off […]
On Time
Before the 1870s the colloquial phrase “on time” was non-existent. The industrial revolution which brought the railroad out west also brought us to the point of declaring a worker or train to be “on time”. Earlier, folks simply “passed time” in their various vocations. Then came the modern dictum that we “save”, “spend”, and “keep […]