Welcome to Jerry Shaw Custom Saddles . . .

As a CUSTOM SADDLE MAKER from Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, we build high quality handcrafted custom saddles and tack for everything you can do “western” on a horse.  Whether you are a cowboy or cowgirl at heart or one who earns a living horseback, you’ll enjoy visiting our SADDLE GALLERIES of uniquely beautiful but undeniably serviceable tools of the cowboy trade.  We have galleries of cutting saddles, reining saddles, barrel racing saddles, ranch cutting saddles, steer wrestling saddles, working cow horse saddles, pleasure and trail saddles, wade saddles as well as wade lite and cowgirl's all purpose saddles, just to name a few.  Whatever your chosen discipline or riding style, you'll find a saddle for it in one of our galleries. 

Hopefully, you didn't come to our site expecting to find the typical, ordinary, hum-drum saddles so common in today's market.  You'll soon see there is nothing ordinary about our extraordinary works of art.  Each saddle we build is individually handcrafted with one type of buyer in mind . . . the discriminating horseman or horsewoman who demands the very best for themselves and insists on the best equipment for their horses. 

Deep Pocket Cutting Saddle

Good Looking Wade Post Horn

We are keenly aware that your horses and what you do with them are a substantial investment, both monetarily and emotionally.  The saddle you use must protect that investment by making sure that neither rider nor horse have any concern about what is between them.   To be honest, we love to hear people "oooooh" and "Ahhhh" over how beautiful our saddles are.  But the best compliment we get is, "The minute my butt hit the saddle, neither I nor my horse knew it was there!"  The last thing you want to be thinking about when you are making lightening fast turns in the cutting arena or making scenic skid marks at the reining futurity is how your saddle feels or how it fits your horse.  So, in a way, it is a genuine compliment to say we build a forgettable saddle. . . forget the saddle and ride.

Our commitment is to build the best quality saddle money can buy at an affordable price.  You can pay more but you can't buy better.

When you visit our shop, located on the frontage road of Interstate 30 just east of exit 87, near Caddo Mills, Texas, you'll find us building saddles in the same tradition of great saddle makers of past generations.  You won't see assembly lines or a lot of high tech equipment. We have the greatest respect and admiration for our forefathers who paved the way for modern horsemanship.  We have tried to learn from their ancient techniques but adapt to the evolutionary changes each discipline has brought to the modern performance horse. We are well aware that ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL, whether you are talking about horses or riders.  As modern breeding programs tweak the conformation of their performance animals to perform well in their respective disciplines the Jerry Shaw Custom Saddle is also an evolutionary process.  We strive diligently to listen attentively and carefully to the needs, wants and desires of those we serve before a saddle’s construction is begun. As your needs change our designs and methods will change to accommodate your requirements.

We firmly believe that UTILITY and BEAUTY can co-exist in perfect harmony in the western saddle.  We try to combine unbridled beauty, unequalled quality of materials and workmanship, and the latest in style and class with unparalleled comfort for the horse and rider.  Each saddle is painstakingly crafted to achieve that perfect balance of form and function without sacrificing beauty. Although BEAUTIFUL doesn’t equate to BETTER, we’ve found that it doesn’t hurt for a saddle to be uniquely and distinctively gorgeous while being perfectly serviceable.

Please do not misunderstand, we can build a Plain Jane saddle but even then we want it to be flawlessly constructed, built of the finest of materials and evidence the handiwork of a skilled and talented craftsman.  Being plain is not excuse for shoddy or sloppy work and it won't be a part of anything that is shipped from our shop. 

We want everyone who rides a Jerry Shaw Custom saddle to be able to ride with pride. . . and we'll do what it takes on this end to make that possible.

Above all, our goal is QUALITY not QUANTITY and every aspect of our saddles is an example of un-compromised quality.  Just as the code of the cowboy in the Old West was to “always protect the brand” he rode for, each saddle that leaves our shop wears our brand, (my name) and is an ambassador of our reputation as a saddle maker.  Each is permanently stamped with my name and represents us in the arenas, the trails and the pastures for generations to come.  For that reason, the quality goes in it before my name goes on it.

                                                                      Jerry Shaw

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Chestnut Reining Saddle