USTRC FINALS 2011

This year will be our third year attending the USTRC Finals in Oklahoma City. We are so excited to see our old friends and make new ones at this event.

This year we have a twenty foot booth in barn 3 and hope to have many new and exciting products for everyone to enjoy. We would like any input from you about what you would like us to make for this show. Anything from belts to saddles or even stuff out of the ordinary. Please contact us with your ideas or suggestions at our website DGSaddlery or call the shop at 979-775-6300.

Our last stop before the finals will be Waco for the regional finals this weekend and we look forward to spending the weekend with everyone.

If we don’t see you in Waco come by our booth in OKC in barn 3 and visit.

DGSaddlery Roping a Success!

We at DG Saddlery would like to thank all those who attended our 3rd annual DG Saddlery Team Roping in Caldwell, TX this past weekend. We had 491 teams for the day and enjoyed spending time with all our friends and making new ones.

Congratulations to George Mueller for winning the high money of the day and a certificate for a custom saddle! We look forward to working with Mr. Mueller designing his new custom Don Gonzales saddle!

We hope everyone enjoyed our roping and for those that didnt get to make it this year, we will have another one next year and we hope to make it bigger and better than is year. Also if you forgot to purchase your DG Saddlery tshirt from the roping we have them available at the shop or you can contact us through the our website DGSaddlery or call us at 979-775-6300.

Thanks again and we hope the rest of your team roping season goes well. Come see us in Waco, TX this weekend!

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DG Saddlery Roping

August 6, 2011 is the scheduled date for our DG Saddlery Roping to be held in Caldwell, TX. This is our third annual and we hope for it to be bigger than last year. As usual we will be giving a custom saddle certificate to the high money winner of the day.

We will also debute a new tshirt design that day and there will also be other events with give away prizes and lots if fun.

This is a one day event that we do every year and we hope that you will come out, rope, and enjoy the day with us. For more info contact us at DGSaddlery.com

Help with hard leather when tooling.

If you tool leather for any length of time, you will find some pieces that seem to feel like your trying to carve into a piece of concrete. Nobody’s leather is perfect and every piece you pick up is different than the last…. Welcome to working with leather!

I have found that adding a little Murphy’s Oil Soap to your case water will help to lubricate the fibers and allow your swivel knife to glide through even tough leather a lot easier. As always, be sure your knife is sharp and strop it frequently.

Sometimes it’s the hard leather that produces the more elegant results, so try and relax and do your best… If leather tooling was easy everyone would be doing it.

Growth Brings Change

I want to thank all our customers for making 2011 a great year so far and with all this growth we at DGSaddlery are doing our best to insure the quality and timely delivery of all your custom leather goods.

With my time being better spent designing all the artwork that is requested on our beautiful saddles and gift items, I have very little time left to handle a lot of the day to day management duties. So as of last week Jim McFerrin will be in charge of all saddle making in our shop. Jim has been with us for five years or so and has built probably 90 percent of the saddles that have come out of our shop. Jim has over 35 years of custom saddle making experience and has used that knowledge to help us design the look and feel that has made our saddles the best on the market. With him handling the build process from time of order to delivery, will insure that our saddles quality remains consistent and completion is timely.

When it comes to small items such as custom belts, wallets, chaps, and other gift items, Jodi Finke will be in charge of all the duties there. Jodi has been most of our customers’ go to person and now she can devote more energy to managing those jobs to completion. Jodi has been with us for four years and is a true asset to our system.

Feel free to call the shop and talk to either one of these great craftsmen and don’t worry, I am not going anywhere… I will be at my table drawing and tooling. I will still be building saddles and other items, but that depends on what the bosses tell me to build when I’m not drawing.

Thanks again and we look forward to finishing the year as good as the first half!

Big Loop Big Money Tour Finals

After almost a year of ropings, the end is here and all that is left is the Big Loop Big Money Tour Finals.

On the weekend of July 23, 2011 in Bryan, TX, cowboys who have attended at least three Big Loop ropings during the year will compete for custom Don Gonzales saddles and of course lots of cash!

This years event will also include a “Girls Gone Wild” horse sale, sponsor roping, and an all girls roping.

Don Gonzales Saddlery will have our booth set up displaying all 14 custom saddles that will be given away.

We invite everyone to come out to the Brazos Co. Expo Center to enjoy some of the best roping and visit our booth to see 14 of the best saddles that can be won anywhere. And if your not roping at the finals or don’t win won of these great saddles, we would be glad to build one just for you.

DG Saddlery Third Annual Team Roping

Mark you calendars for the third annual DGSaddlery team roping which will be held in Caldwell, TX August the 6. The last two years of this roping have been a great success and we hope that rid year will be no different.

As the day comes closer we will post more info about the roping here. As usual, the high money winner of the day will receive a certificate for a custom DG saddle. Cory Hendricks and Jimbo Daniels are our previous winners and we thank both of them for roping and hope their saddles are treating them well. Along with the saddle, we give away other prizes and gifts to show our appreciation for our customers and give thanks for their support.

Don’t miss this event! If you have any questions please contact the saddle shop at 979-775-6300 or email Jodi (jodi@dgsaddlery.com) and visit our website DGSaddlery.

Saddle construction

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We are now ready to block seat and skirts in on this project. The cantle plugs have been nailed in and trimmed a bit, but are still not trimmed to the finished Cheyenne roll width. The customer decides on this width and it is not trimmed until the seat is glued in.