About the Saddle Maker
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Troy spent many years using saddles before he ever started making them.
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About 1980 Troy started out working on big cow outfits like his father and grandfathers before him.  Most kids his age were still in high school.  These outfits had big cavvies of horses, some still pulled the wagon out.  Trailer rides and fences weren't quite as common as they are now.  During these buckaroo years he rode a large variety of horses, several saddles and worked with a lot of different cowboys from different parts of the country.  In about 1991, with a wife and two kids to support, he started shoeing, day-working, starting colts and trading some horses.  By 1995 he was trading quite a few horses; anything that was salvageable got rode for awhile and sold.
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The large block of time in Troy's life spent horseback gives him an insight into how a saddle should sit a horse and fit a cowboy.  There are a lot of really fine saddle makers that Troy admires for their finish work and their craftsmanship, but it is pretty easy to see the difference between the folks that learned their craft in a classroom and the people that have spent the large end of their life in a saddle.
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Troy is very concerned with the quality of anything that comes out of the shop.  If something doesn't turn out just the way he intended - he starts over.  He doesn't send anything out of the shop that he wouldn't want to ride or use himself.  For the same reason he guarantees his saddles and other trappings to the customer’s satisfaction.
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Since opening up the shop here, a few people have wondered "why in Dayville and not somewhere in the heart of the Great Basin?"  Troy spent the majority of his life in Northern Nevada, and wife, Jan is a Nevada native.
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"The things that we were looking for, for our family, we found when we came and looked at this place.  Beautiful, diversified country with abundant wildlife and fishing opportunities, nice mild winters with very little wind, and a small country school for our three kids."
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Thought some of you might enjoy a few pictures that I was able to find.
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If you are ever in this country - stop by and visit.  

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