At a time in which scores of items are mass-produced in places far outside of the United States, Drew Clark's work stands tall. Clark, 54, is a custom saddlemaker in Colcord, Oklahoma, and crafts each ...

REE HEIGHTS, S.D. - Lonnie Smith's duplicator saw screamed as it trimmed an 8- by 4-foot cut of wood. This process created three wooden bars to be used to create a saddle tree, or a frame around which ...

A man who claims to be the last to derive his income from solely making saddle trees for traditional Australian stockhorse saddles is hanging up the tools. There are a number of people who make ...

Few can deny the smell and touch of fresh handcrafted leather. Those special qualities pervade the senses at Miguel Aguilar’s Saddle Barn, a new small workshop nestled in the rear section of Old ...

Master saddle maker Jeff Gollehon and his young colleague Sterling Campbell spend a good share of their work week cutting, wetting, shaping and tooling hand-crafted saddles in the loft area of Grizzly ...

Modern saddles provide new options for tree type, with the goal of sparing a horse pain from localized saddle pressure. But new Swiss research suggests that, at least when a horse trots, tree type ...

Most of my steady readers know that I am all in favor of people who operate their own business. Actually, my gut feeling is that this country is going to spend a while resolving itself back into a ...