Man turns saddle-making hobby into full-time business 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 ...

Cliff Langerud has been making saddles since the early 1990s. It started as a hobby and grew into a full-time business, Langerud Custom Saddles.

Julio Peña has spent the past 57 years making everything from saddles, belts, purses and wallets. But he's part of a dying breed of craftsmen.

Mexican born and Texas raised, Miguel Aguilar is the fourth generation of his family making saddles and carving handmade leather goods. He first established Miguel Aguilar’s Saddle Barn — a ...

They all function the same but each is one is unique, "Each saddle is custom, each saddle is built for a particular person." Eleven years ago he was asked to make identical saddles with no art work.

SHERIDAN - In today's high-tech world of mass production, it may come as a surprise to learn that custom Western saddle makers are "alive and well," according to Bruce King of the world-famous ...

Yet saddle-making is becoming a lost art — except here in Hot Springs, which is home to two saddle makers. Doug Pirnie of Y-L (Y-bar-L) Saddlery, creates custom saddles.

Guy Miller Saddlery and Leather Goods owners Kathy and Guy Miller make custom saddles, bridles, chinks and a host of other leather goods — along with repairing and refurbishing saddles — out of their ...

"To bring saddle making to an art form, you have to have confidence," said John Guzman, owner of Twister John's Custom Saddlery and Buckaroo Emporium in Augusta.