Kobau

Thank you for the welcome! Thankfully the Boys can't get into my work room... We made sure that it is where they can't get into, and they are learning fast that mom's stuff is just like dad's... meaning it is not to be touched!

Linda, from Manitoba Canada... I'm 32, just starting to dip my toes in the water of working with leather....I'm a Nurse.. but really at the moment I am mainly mom, wife and try to work with my horses and create some nice jewellery.. oh and learning to be a better photographer in my spare time.... Married since '08, we have 2 boys, Cody is just turning 4, Landon is just turned one, and our 3rd child is due this june 2012!!!

Not last year, it would have been two yrs ago I guess, I was searching out a new (or used) saddle. I had been riding in an older Circle Y for about 16 yrs with absolutely no issues, but that year I had one new horse and two others that strated to show they were to happy with the saddle. nothing major, but shorter strides and less willing to really work for me. I think i tried on about 20 different saddles.. I went with what the market calls a FQHB, do to the shape and size of my horses ( one of them has the nickname Tank).. long story short, I ended up with a Circle G brand saddle.. biggest reason for that is the maker was willing to try out multiple different trees on my horse, and take the time to build me what would fit my horses best, considering the fact that I needed to use this saddle on a bare minimum of 3 different horses) It is a cutting saddle, because that is the seat I prefer. It has a 7" gullet on it also. I have used it on some of my younger stock also (so horses age 2- 25 get ridden with it) and for 95% of them it works good, only 1 or two prefer a barrel saddle I have. Of course I'd love to also get my hands on a nice wade type saddle.. but leery of going through the process again... For me the hardest part of searching out a saddle is where i live.. hard to get ahold of saddles to try out without forking out some major money first!!