About Our Saddles
Double Diamond Saddlery is a small but busy custom saddle shop since 2005. We offer all original hand-l designs, and build custom saddles that are leather technical, lightweight, close contact pared down for endurance, western trail, and western working ranch. We are also professional saddle fitters and understand that there is no possibility that two trees can fit all equines without extreme damage to the animal, and the relationship between the rider and the animal. Therefore, we offer our professional fitting expertise and dozens of different tree fits by Steele Tree Company. We build for equines of all sorts, with an emphasis on the hard and unserved breeds such as the drafts, the gaited animals and long ears, many of which are sold saddles “on a gaited or mule tree”. We do not build by gullet width only. We build on what fits well.
As far as who builds our saddles, we have a team of brothers in Kentucky who build one by one, hand cut, hand built, from the tree up. We are not a production facility. The craftsmanship is unsurpassed, with an emphasis on close contact, pared down, light weight, technical, custom and beautiful with an attention to detail. We do not rush, we build for quality.
We use Herman Oak leathers, and always stainless-steel hardware. Our seats are nothing short of amazing and built on our incredible suspended ground seats. A suspended ground seat is unlike all other seats which are hard with a little foam or gel on top. Never bouncy, it’s a seat that takes time to build but offers day long comfort and a narrow twist allowing riders relief from hip, lower back, knee and ankle torque and body concussion all day long. We also build traditional padded and ergonomically designed hard seats (not like sitting on a propane tank) with a padded inlay as well.
Our company is comprised of Double Diamond Custom Saddlery (Endurance, Barrel/Game, Aussi and Buena Vista,
Lightweight Western Trail and hard working Ranch western. All are available on all of the Steele Saddle Tree fits and are customizable to your hearts content!
Need your new saddle quickly? We also offer the Crooked Creek Trail saddles, which are built by the same shops out of the same high-end materials, but are not entirely custom, are readily available, and cost a bit less than the Double Diamond Custom models. They are also built on the Steele Saddle Trees.
All things good are worth waiting for. We look forward to working with you and your equines.