Yup, we're still working away...
We are no longer building saddle trees. We have two saddle fit videos available on our westernsaddlefit.com website. Western Saddle Fit - The Basics, aimed at riders, is available either on DVD or streaming on Vimeo while the six hour series Well Beyond the Basics, aimed more for professionals but understandable by anyone, is available by streaming on Vimeo. (We left this website up because we have had many requests to keep the information available.)
I noticed that it has been a while since I posted anything about what had been going on around the shop work wise. Rod is still going at normal rate building trees. We had about 5 ½ or so month’s orders ahead of us when we got the diagnosis of his arthritis, so we have all those orders to fill for the time we had promised them before he can slow down at all. Other than the changes in how he uses his hands that we talked about before, it is pretty much same old, same old around here…
Rod is still building trees…
And rawhiding trees…
And making rawhide (so much nicer outside in the summer!)…
Here’s some of what we have been building – a Wade, a Buster Welch and a 3B in this drying section…
And a Wade, a 12” wood post Will James, a 13” wood post Will James and a 13” Modified Association. It’s been swell fork week around here lately…
We’ve also done a couple with exposed wood horn caps…
And one without a horn…
We’ve spent some time playing around with trees on horses, just to keep learning new stuff…
And in our spare time we have (well, mainly Rod has) been putting in a room in our basement as a guestroom. We have a saddle maker coming toward the end of the month to learn to build his own trees and he needs someplace to stay…
But there is always something to do outside as well, just to relax a little. The raspberries are coming on well and we’ll really enjoy them – whatever the grasshoppers don’t get to first…
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Best wishes!
Thomas
