VanHorn Saddlery has recently moved to the town of Ogallala. We are now located at 1014 West 1st on HiWay 30, next to Direct Check right across from Steve's Auto Body and Paint. VanHorn Saddlery specializes in building and repairing western saddles. Jake VanHorn is the owner and operator of the shop. He grew up on a ranch in western North Dakota and continued his cowboy education on ranches and feedlots in Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska. Jake has wore a lot of leather off the tree and has a deep appreciation for how saddles and tack should fit the horse and rider, while maintaining a pleasing appearance at the same time. He has been doing tack and saddle repair for about 15 years. Jake is mostly self taught although in the fall of 2008 he attended a saddle making school in Montana to further his skills in the saddle making art. Jake enjoys working with leather and creating a new master piece every time a customer comes in his shop, whether it is in building a new saddle, chaps, checkbook covers, belts or suspenders. Jake measures each person individually so that he can get the perfect fit for that particular customer. He then listens and works with the customer on different tooling or customization options, thus making every creation a truly one of a kind work of art.

Jake also enjoys doing tack and saddle repair as it is a way to revive and put new life into an old saddle, or piece of tack making it look and feel as if it were new again. He can do virtually anything that you can come up with that is made of leather. Jake is a creative and handy individual that will work with you until the final product is perfect.

Some pictures of the family.

                     The shop help.                                       Future bull rider                                 Taking in the action.

                                                                      Saddlemaking school certificate

More pictures coming soon!