the_jersey_lilly_2000
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Couple years ago, at a 4-H practice we noticed another lil girl ridin a saddle that looked really neat. Our daughter was to the point that she'd outgrown her first saddle. The father of the lil girl was nice enuff to let our daughter try it out. But we couldn't find one like it around here. The one we did find that was similar to it was not well made and was way more than we wanted to spend on a saddle. Since we do some repairs on saddles. (friends bringin em over and parkin em in my kitchen) I said...why can't we build one? They have a saddle shop where Mr. Lilly works, so figured if there was anything we couldnt do, he could take it in and have that done (swell and seat back sewn) So we did, ordered a tree, and leather, and went to work. She's been ridin this saddle since March and just loves it. I made the pattern, hubby cut it all out, I done the toolin on it. Sent it to the saddleshop where he works and they put the leather on the swell and sewed the seat and back on. Other than that it was all done here at the house. Seat and swells are the hardest part, but it turned out rather nice for our first attempt at buildin a saddle. The concho's on it, are hand made, we designed them (our brand) and a jeweler in another dept where he works made them for us.
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Side View
Back Veiw
Concho