Pictures we put up in response to the challenge to post 5 pictures of our work for 5 days in a row on Facebook. Subscribe to RSS Feed There’s been a 5 for 5 challenge going around Facebook lately asking people to post five pictures of their work a day for five days in a row. We were… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/five-five-challenge/
Pictures of some trees, and Rod rawhiding a tree. Just normal stuff. Well, almost all is normal stuff... Last week was a pretty typical week around here. Rod built trees and rawhided trees. I did up wood and varnished trees. Pretty normal… Here’s a couple of trees we… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/around-shop-last-week/
More pictures of different types of metal horn forks we have built over the past few weeks and months. Subscribe to RSS Feed Carrying on from the last post, here are a few more of the variations of trees that have come out of our shop in the last couple of months. This… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/more-trees-arent-wades/
Pictures of what has been happening outside and inside the shop, and why we haven't shown you these pictures earlier... Subscribe to RSS Feed On January 14th, there was a major windstorm all through northern Alberta with record breaking winds of up to 120 km/hr (75 mph). Now that may… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/storms-and-non-wade-trees/
Not all charro trees are created the same... Subscribe to RSS Feed Last week I posted this picture without an explanation of what type of fork this was. From the back, it may be hard to tell, though the horn could… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/another-charro-tree/
I have pictures, so it must have existed... Subscribe to RSS Feed The month kind of disappeared, and I’m not sure quite where it went, but here are a few pictures of some things that happened during November, so… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/what-happened-to-november/
Pictures of different saddle trees around the shop the past couple of weeks, plus cute puppy pictures... Subscribe to RSS Feed Since I haven’t posted a lot of pictures of trees lately, I figured I would just take a few of what has been around the shop this past couple of… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/around-the-shop-plus/
Comparing three forks and diagnosing why they look the way they do. I sent a few pictures of this tree to the customer prior to it being rawhided. His comment was about the height of the fork. He was concerned about leaning forward going… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/contrasts-and-comparisons/
It was raining outside, so I took pictures inside the shop today. Just a regular old work day at the Nikkel's... Subscribe to RSS Feed It was raining outside today, like it has for the majority of days in July so far, so I decided to snap some pictures of what was going on inside… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/around-the-shop-today/
Changes in trees and lots of barrels in the shop tonight. Subscribe to RSS Feed Here's some pictures from the shop tonight, as the look of some trees changed dramatically, and the rawhide room is very full - of large, blue… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/before-after-and-another-kind-of-full/
A very sad tale of the life, and death, of a saddle tree. Subscribe to RSS Feed Our saying has always been "We won't say you can't break one of our trees, but we do say we want to hear the story, because it's going to be… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/we-told-you-it-would-be-good/
Inside trees and outside trees - we worked with both this week. Subscribe to RSS Feed This week, Rod built four trees, and today he rawhided a couple of them. They are for a husband/wife combination. Hers is a barrel racing… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/of-trees-and-trees/
Here are some of the trees we are taking to show at the Artisan's show during the Heritage Ranch Rodeo in Edmonton this year. Subscribe to RSS Feed Well, Saturday we are headed south to Edmonton. We have been invited again this year to participate in the Artisan's show during the Heritage… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/off-to-the-heritage-ranch-rodeo/
but here are some pictures anyway of trees Rod got rawhided earlier in the week. Subscribe to RSS Feed I took these pictures on Monday evening, planning to put up a quick post that evening. Here it is late Friday and I am finally getting the chance… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/it-s-been-a-week/
Here's some pictures of a few of the trees we have built in the last while: a Low Pro Roper, an OY Calf roper, a Bowman fork in a cutting style tree, a wood post Packer and a pretty typical Wade. Subscribe to RSS Feed I finally got around to labelling a bunch of pictures of trees we have built over the last few weeks. While we have been doing a fair number of… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/a-few-trees-from-the-past-weeks/
Take a normal Will James fork outline shape, add a wood post horn, extra stock and one inch of back sweep and you get a really nice looking tree. This is a 14" wide Will James fork outline pattern with a wood post horn. I wrote another post about Will James forks back in April. Since then, we have built two more -… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/just-a-neat-looking-tree/
Comparing two horse of vastly different builds, and two trees of vastly different specs... Subscribe to RSS Feed The horse ahead of him in this picture is Winston. This is Winston. He's a Hanovarian/Morgan cross. He's not short. His Dennis Lane… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/ya-gotta-look-inside/
Some of what we did and a look at some trees ready to ship. Subscribe to RSS Feed This was going to be a "today in the shop" post, but since our website was being updated, I couldn't post it then. By the way, if anyone sees any… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/yesterday-in-the-shop/
Here are pictures and a description of the Pro Roper trees I shipped out today. Subscribe to RSS Feed Here are some pictures of a couple of Pro Roper saddle trees we shipped out today. They are both headed to the same saddle maker in Manitoba but… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/pro-roper-saddle-tree/
Less than half the trees we build have a metal horn as the majority of our customers go for a wood post horn on either slick or swell forks. But this month has been the opposite. Subscribe to RSS Feed It is funny how things come in groups. A few months ago I wrote a post about all the Wades we had on order. Well, June has been metal horn swell… https://www.rodnikkel.com/content/saddle-tree-blog-from-shop-and-desk/it-s-been-metal-horn-swell-fork-month/
