Saddle Fitting: The Inside Journey

Writing is a very organic and uncertain activity.  You start out with a specific story in mind, but half-way through, you find that the stor...

To all of my readers and their families - two and four legged - best wishes for a wonderful holiday season full of merry and bright days.  A...

I'm afraid that my last blog  post  was a bit unclear regarding whose template info I was passing on, and may have given the wrong impre...

Having been in this profession for more than a decade, you'd think I'd have heard the bulk of the available info - both good and bad...

FYI:  this is totally unrelated to saddle fitting. If any of you have ever read my profile, you'll know that in addition to my horse-r...

Just wanted to give you all a heads-up about an article on shims and correction pads that I just finished for  Trail Blazer magazine .  It...

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I've touched on the subject of treeless vs. treed saddles  before, and stated that there are pros and cons to both - BUT that each needs...

The difference between hoop trees and standard trees has been discussed here quite a bit, but I finally have a bare hoop tree (pulled from a...

Saddle fitting is, at best, an inexact science.  Sometimes the laws of geometry and physics do not apply; sometimes the logical, rational ro...

Weekday mornings are usually pretty busy at our house.  My first precious cup of coffee is consumed while feeding humans, feeding dogs and c...

I know, I know, we've covered this subject before.  However, according to my blog stats (which I check from time to time), the posts tha...