Saddle Fitting: The Inside Journey

After you've looked at tree width, scoop and type, the next consideration would be the panels.  In this entry, I'm going to cover th...

The previous "From the Tree Up" entry discussed tree scoop, or the longitudinal curve (also called "sweep").  Now we...

When I was going through my photo files, searching for different equine body types, I ran into this photo.  While it certainly illustrates a...

Recently, my posts have wandered a bit from the real nuts and bolts of saddle fitting, and I'd like to get back to that sort of thing.  ...

Tomorrow I'm going on a barn call to Margie Hutchinson's Larkin' Hill Farm in Old Chatham, NY ( http://www.larkinhill.com/ ).  T...

A while back, I wrote about the difficulties inherent in getting a good saddle fitting education here in the States.  Yesterday, I had a cha...

I've always been fascinated by words, and by the fact that they can have so many meanings.  When I say, "boot", I usually thin...

Multi-tasking is a way of life for those involved in horses, and I'm no exception. In addition to my saddle work and the care and feedi...

... a debate as heated as treeless vs. tree." (Apologies to Joyce Kilmer.) I ran into a really interesting topic on one of the bigger...

In the 10 years that I've been doing tack repair, I've tackled some saddles that were pretty close to their last gasp. In a lot of t...

I finally finished the repairs on the exercise saddle. It was a bit of trial-and-error, since I've never encountered anything quite like...

A little switch from the topic of saddles and fitting to the topic of breeding my mare Lyric. Or perhaps I should say, "TRYING to breed...