Makes you ponder

[StolpSaddles]

I was thinking the other day

The saddles I build will still be on horses when I am no longer around

[TrooperChuck]

I've had the same thoughts. It kind of feels good to think that decades from now someone could still be riding a saddle with my name on it. There used to be a saddle maker named Art Barrett here in northeast Washington. He wasn't well known outside of our little area but he made lots of saddles. He died a few years ago, and I still run into lots of folks who own his saddles and enjoy riding them.

[mulefool]

The thought of somebody enjoying a great ride on a good horse or mule and looking down and seeing my name on their saddle, years after I'm gone gives me a good feeling, too. Chris

[barra]

I also get a kick out of the fact that some kid who is not yet a twinkle in their old mans eye will be making saddlery with my tools and will be able to pass them on. I in turn got most of them from a saddler who was using them when my grandfather was born.

Barra

[bruce johnson]

I am with Barra. There is something kind of cool to think you are using something for sure that is over a hundred years old, and it still is tight. I had a lapse yesterday morning. I realized the dichotomy of using a neon orange plastic handle screwdriver to set the blades on Hansen and Randall splitters. I got a $5 wooden slab handled screwdriver at an antique store out of guilt. It looked better laying next to them this morning.

[oldtimer]

I was thinking the other day

The saddles I build will still be on horses when I am no longer around

And someone will bring out a question on a leatherforum: " I have an old saddle marked Stolp Saddlery. Does anyone have any information on a saddlemaker named Stolp ? "

[HarryB]

My war department (wife) keeps talking about how much more my stuff will be worth "once I'm gone"! Think she's trying to tell me something? ?

[oldtimer]

My war department (wife) keeps talking about how much more my stuff will be worth "once I'm gone"! Think she's trying to tell me something? ?

You´d better watch your back, Harry!

[Casey Jordan]

My war department (wife) keeps talking about how much more my stuff will be worth "once I'm gone"! Think she's trying to tell me something? ?

My parole officer (wife) keeps telling me the same thing. She also tells me I need to make more "stock" to take to shows.

I get nervous when I see her with a calculator.

[Randy Cornelius]

For those of you that do not know I have a son, Riley who is very much into leather like me. He tells me to buy the best tools I can. I ask why, he says, "because some day they will me mine". Now is that love for your dad or what?

Randy