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Jeys Custom Saddles Youth Ranch Cutter. 12.5″ seat. 6.5″ wide gullet. Don Orrell stirrups. Good condition. Jeys Saddlery uses high quality materials to build you the best saddle you can buy for the money. Herman Oak leather and a Wood, fiberglass covered tree are the building blocks upon which the saddle begins. Todd skillfully crafts each saddle as if it were his own, and he trains every employee in the same way. Remember, if you don't see exactly what you want, just ask for it, and Todd will do what he can to get you in your own Jeys Saddle.

How to Order Your Saddle

Custom saddles are priced depending on the options you choose. We can build anything you can describe.

Print the Order Worksheet out to help you select the custom features you would like to include in your saddle.

Each saddle is carefully designed, skillfully assembled, and finished using only the finest and highest quality materials available. I use Herman Oak Leather, all stainless steel hardware and top quality trees for my saddles.

I have 4 full-time employees working together, sharing their knowledge to create the best saddle to fit your needs. They all have been carefully selected because of their skill and expertise in the art of making custom saddles and leather work.

Although custom saddles are my niche, I also make many, many other products from leather. We make custom Ipad covers, belts, wallets, knife sheathes, suspenders, shaving kits, make-up bags, gun holsters, shell bags and slings. We also cover motorcycle seats, make custom guitar straps, tack, chaps and the list goes on and on!!!

Keep in mind when looking at our pictures that these are items that were custom made to the buyer, but any item can be made with any variations to fit your needs. Or if you like what you see, then we can make another one just like it. Give us a call or come by and talk to us about it so we can get it made for you!

Saddles

Jeys Saddlery uses high quality materials to build you the best saddle you can buy for the money. Herman Oak leather and a Wood, fiberglass covered tree are the building blocks upon which the saddle begins.

Meet Jay

Hi, I’m Jay. A third generation leather craftsman born and raised in Tennessee. One of my first memories as a young boy is walking into my Grandpa’s leather shop. The scent of leather hit me the moment I walked into the door. I'd watch him for hours as he used the well-worn tools to create harness out of a leather hide. Not long after this first memory- at a very young age, I was taught the leather craftsman trade by my Dad in his own leather shop.

Talking to thousands of equestrians and spending many hours in the saddle myself, a dream was cultivated. To create detail, not production. To fuse comfort, quality and visual appeal in every saddle for the ultimate riding experience.

At 17, I started building my first trail and performance saddles without apprenticeship. At 21, I started my own custom saddle shop. Now, I own and operate a full-service tack store with my own line of originally designed saddles.

From the best saddle trees built by Baties, to Herman Oak leather and stainless steel Hardware, not a single detail is left out. The years of experience with leather, saddles and horses have all contributed to creating the best experience possible for both the horse and the rider.

Todd Jey's Custom Cutting Saddle for sale

This saddle is brand new and has never touched a horse!

17" seat

28" skirt

Wide tree

7.5" gullet

Serial# 12014W

Includes latigo, half breed off billet, 2 rear cinch billets, and a rear cinch.

Jeys says, “There’s two different kinds of trees you can get. You can get a wood raw hyde covered tree and then you can get a fiberglass tree.”

Cutting the Leather:

With the saddle base chosen it is then time to cut the leather that will be on your saddle. Jeys says it takes 75 percent of a cow’s hyde to make a full saddle. The cutting process seems tedious when done by hand, but a 20 ton hydraulic clicker makes it a lot easier as it turns the process into what feels more like making cut-out cookies. The hydraulic press stamps down on the cutter and leather strip, creating a perfectly cut piece, every time.

When cutting, it is easy to get carried away and start stamping with no rhyme or reason, but Jeys recounts advice a mentor once told him. “I had an old saddle maker years and years ago he said, Todd, if you ever go out on your own, cutting will either make or break you” he says.

When all the supplies are ready to be put on the saddle, it is as easy as glue, a steady hand and following the order, putting on piece by piece.

The Tooling:

The difficult part comes with the decoration of flower tooling on the leather. As we walk from the cutting station to where the tooling takes place, Jeys tells us about his 10 year anniversary saddle that took over 65 hours just to hand tool alone, and is tagged at 10 thousand dollars.

Every custom saddle is one of a kind because of the leather tooling process. With each design being imprinted by hand, the tooling process can be laboring and high-pressured, but in the end, the saddle comes out with each it’s own personal touch.

Jeys says that as long as a saddle is properly taken care of, it can outlive it’s owner and be passed on for generations. He says that his saddles have traveled far and wide, now on ranches in Italy and Australia, but all come from the hearts of the workers in the little shop on Chadbourne.

Email: thesaddletackshop@gmail.com