All the Pretty Pieces

We're in Bozeman for a couple of days, staying with my sister and her husband, who is a first class saddle maker. Since the garage at their condo doubles as a saddle shop, I'll treat you photos of a pair of roping saddles he's building for twin girls, not that they're spoiled or anything.

Start with a bunch of this:

And a set of these:

Trace out the pieces for a saddle and the outlines of the tooling:

The rawhide tree with the seat and swells covered and the cantle already tooled:

Even the stirrups get some tooling and bling:

And the back cinch:

And the stirrup leathers:

Purchase price? $5,000 per saddle, in case you were all fired up to place an order.

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