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After looking at his work in the 2006 & 2007 TCAA catalouges, anybody out there having any other sources for photos of his work, or photos they themselves have?

I sure would like to see more. And close-up detailed photos. Anybody have anything?

Harvey

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RC Bean's shop is just down the road from where I live. His web page is no longer active, but here's a Link

that may be of interest to you.

Butch

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Harvey

send me an email with your email address and I actually have a saddle photograph of Mr. Bean's (closeup). His work is amazing when you see it. I will be more than happy to send it to you, but it is a background on my other laptop.

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You're lucky butch! Do you ever go spend time there?

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Unfortunately I've never met Rick, but I've been to his shop and it's one of those places where your jaw just drops. His website used to have pictures of the inside of it, but for some reason it's down.

Butch

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On a mailing list I once said that decorative carving is just to cover up bad tooling ...!! Wow, what strong reaction I got!!! Just imagine - the sacrilege!

I any case, someone sent me photos of Rick Bean's work - a saddle largely decorated with swivel knife cuts, of course! Enjoy!

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I love Rick Beans work. It is very humbling and inspiring as is all the work from TCAA members.

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When Rick puts those saddles up for auction he also offers a photo book that shows every step of the saddle construction and every day, every step, every detail is described by Rick in rhyme!!!! On that saddle (i believe) the inside of the stirrup thread had over 7000 swivel knife cuts! He's got a great wit and is a happy kind of person and still fairly quite. His art and saddles speaks volumes though!

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It still amazes me some of these saddles. I love his 2005 saddle I think it is from Butch's link he posted. That thing is simply amazing (IMHO).

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