This is a nice letter from a customer: Dear Cary, After speaking with you the other day, I thought a lot about our conversations over the past couple years. When I first talked to you I thought maybe I was looking for something similar to a cutting saddle that I could rope on, and that somehow evolved […]
The Classic Halfbreed on a Swell Fork
The halfbreed saddle has become a classic over the last twenty years or so. Most of the ones I’ve made have been on a Wade tree. This was a nice exception…it is a Lewellyn tree made by Warren Wright. The front (fork) is thirteen inches wide and is covered without a seam. I’ve taken extra […]
2012 TCAA Saddle
I hadn’t considered making a miniature saddle until a couple years ago. This is my recently completed saddle for the 2012 ‘Cowboy Crossings’ exhibit opening at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. Several months ago I was visiting with my mentor Chuck Stormes about half scale saddles. We agreed that a common mistake is […]
Grandpa’s Woolies
My paternal grandfather, Theodore John Schwarz (b.1896) came to Idaho in the 1910’s. This is a pencil illustration by my first cousin Todd Schwarz rendered from a photo of our Grandpa Schwarz. This was a time when woolie chaps were extremely common among the cowboys of the day in much of the west. All the […]
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
The story of the 2009 TCAA Woolies began in 2007. I’d been looking for a source for good quality angora goat to use for chaps and unfortunately almost all the hides available had hair that was too short for an attractive pair of woolies. I eventually discovered a tannery in Texas that sold goat hides […]
Famous Customers
I have done work for some fine folks whose names you would recognize (but not many). None are quite as accomplished in the art of living as my Dad. This is Bernie Schwarz (b. 1933) packing the front quarters of my son’s bull off the mountain in 2009. He’s riding a saddle I made about […]
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