powermallet Report post Posted January 11, 2013 Hello everyone: My name is Joe and I have made my living for the past Twenty years building custom Western saddles. I started with working saddles and over the years it has changed to predominatly Trail saddles. I was trained by a couple of different trips to Sierra Saddle school in Bishop Calif. My tooling has been Mostly self taught with a couple of seminars and a lot of trial and error. (Probably More error than anything else). The remainder of my tooling training is looking at others work and figuring out how it is done. I am looking forward to sharing information and am glad to see that there is a site that promotes this. I am not very computer literate. I am learning slowly. Therefore pictures of my work might be slow in coming, but they will eventually get there. For right now you can go to my web sight at http://jjmaxwell.com/ once your there you can also get to our Facebook page from there if you are so inclined. We also have another web page which is powermallet.com which is a handy little machine for tooling leather. You can go there to see some videos which will get you to a few more you tube videos. Well, enough said for now hoping to share Info as time goes on. Thanks for your time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benlilly1 Report post Posted January 11, 2013 Welcome J.J... Nice website! You make some really nice saddles. I'm going to check out your other web page. Looking forward to more posts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johanna Report post Posted January 11, 2013 Hello Joe & Cindy! Glad you made it to the forum! Folks- check out powermallet.com and watch the videos. ~J Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
immiketoo Report post Posted January 11, 2013 Welcome Jim. Nice websites you have. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluesman1951 Report post Posted January 18, 2013 Hi thanks for sharing your web site and your beautiful work . Thats a right fine web site sir . My compliments . look forward to seeing more of your work . Bill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
powermallet Report post Posted January 18, 2013 Thanks Bill. I'll keep adding to it as long as the ideas keep coming. How do you post pictures? I don't know much about this computer stuff. My wife does most of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mototech7 Report post Posted January 21, 2013 Hi Joe, I watched every one of your power mallet videos and think its amazing! I could tell your wife was the tech one of the bunch. Glad you could make it and honored to have you here! Being able to rub shoulders with those who make works of art and pieces that look and work amazingly motivate me so much. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
powermallet Report post Posted January 22, 2013 Hi Moto: Good to hear from you. and I am glad you liked the videos. You are definatly right. I am computer challenged and my wife bails me out. We are all still learning this Leather thing. I guess as long as we keep challenging ourselves we should get better. It't still fulfilling to try something new and have it turn out decently. Thats the nice thing I am seeing with this web page is we can learn from each other Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
