Bellevue Saddle Maker a Throwback to Past
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2020
- Jack Sept of Bellevue, Idaho, is proud to continue the traditional art form of western leather crafting, which involves tooling, stamping and cutting leather to create shapes and decorative designs for wearable and functional art.
Jack’s passion for the traditional western lifestyle developed while growing up on Montana and Wyoming ranches around working cowboys, horses, and saddles. At a young age he became fascinated with the history of leather crafting, which dates back over a span of at least 5,000 years. He took his first leather class from legendary saddle maker Don King of Sheridan, Wyo., when he was just 12.
Today, Jack is a master leather craftsman with over 50 years of crafting under his belt. Join Eye on Sun Valley’s Lori McNee as she takes you into his Bellevue Triangle studio, full of heirloom quality saddles, cowboy gear, hatbands and custom belts.
👍Enjoyed your video! I had a spinal cord injury while working up in the Rockies, near Durango, CO, back in the
1970s. Unable to move my legs, while I was in the hospital in Englewood, CO (Denver area), I started tooling leather during the months that I was laid up. It was then, that I decided to make saddles. Due to the paralysis from the chest down, it was doubtful that I'd ever regain the use of my legs, however I "walked" out of the hospital on crutches, wearing a metal backbrace. In time, I could get around, with just a walking stick. I could also ride all day, once I pulled myself up into the saddle. A leather bench was set up for me in the tackroom, that was located in the barn. I began doing tack repair, working on the pack outfit's dozens of riding saddles, the pack saddles for the mules and the pack equipment, using an old Landis Machine to stitch the heavy leather. I later attended school at OSU Okmulgee, OK, where I learned Western Boot Making and Saddlemaking while there. I still have the 1st saddle that I made, back in the 1970s, on a A-fork, shovel-cantle tree, from Standard Saddle Tree Company, out of Vernal, UT. I put many a mile on that saddle, when (despite my broken back, 2 fractured vertebrae + spinalcord injury) I was a packer / Licensed Guide + Outfitter in the high country of the 780 square mile Weminuche Wilderness Wilderness area, located in the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado Rockies. After graduation, from OSU and returning to Colorado, I worked as a saddlemaker at Colorado Saddlery, up in the original saddle shop on the 2nd floor of the building at the corner of 15th and Wynkoop in Denver. When Bona Allen saddles were being made in Olney Illinois, I was a saddlemaker there, till they closed down, 20 some years ago. After the old Landis Stitcher, I later bought a Champion "hook + awl" stitching machine with the 10'' throat. I traded the Champion stitching Machine off, in the 1990s, when I bought bought my 9710 model Singer straight-needle harness Stitching machine. Colorado Saddlery had the Campbell-Randal, (hook +awl) stitching machines when I was a saddlemaker there. Bona Allen in Olney ,IL, had Durkopp Adler Stitching Machines, with "triple feed'. I'v collected a lot of "vintage" saddlemaking tools, since buying my 1st tools in the 1970s, Gomph, McMillen, Hackbarth, CS Osborne, a vintage German made headknife. some vintage Shefield Steel punches .when I was a packer / Licensed Guide + Outfitter (despite my broken back, 2 fractured vertebrae + spinalcord injury) in the 780 square mile Weminuche Wilderness Wilderness area, located in the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado Rockies. After graduation, from OSU and returning to Colorado, I worked as a saddlemaker at Colorado Saddlery, up in the original saddle shop on the 2nd floor of the building at the corner of 15th and Wynkoop in Denver. When Bona Allen saddles were being made in Olney Illinois, I was a saddlemaker there, till they closed down, 20 some years ago. After the old Landis Stitcher, I later bought a Champion "hook + awl" stitching machine with the 10'' throat. I traded the Champion stitching Machine off, in the 1990s, when I bought bought my 9710 model Singer straight-needle harness Stitching machine. Colorado Saddlery had the Campbell-Randal, (hook +awl) stitching machines when I was a saddlemaker there. Bona Allen in Olney ,IL, had Durkopp Adler Stitching Machines, with "triple feed'. I'v collected a lot of "vintage" saddlemaking tools, since buying my 1st tools in the 1970s, Gomph, McMillen, Hackbarth, CS Osborne, a vintage German made headknife. some vintage Shefield Steel punches .
Amazing work Sir!
Enjoyed the comment.. listening to NPR .. pretty sweet shop ! Be Safe and Stay Well Jack
The first saddle is very close to an early 19th century Mexican saddle
What would it cost to have one made
how much it cost ?
Do you ride? I was told there are some great leather workers out there making saddles but they don’t ride them...
You need to listen to the video!
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Was interested until NPR comment was made.
I used to love NPR way back when. I used to love CNN, too. They changed.