SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (KFOR) – Horns, cantle backs, and seats.
The saddle family tree begins with a base. Add skirting, latigo, and harness.
Bret Mock and his brother Greg discovered to toll leather-based from their dad ‘Buzz’ Mock, who discovered from his dad ‘Ab’, who discovered from his Uncle Claude, who was at all times very cautious to whom he confirmed his methods.
“‘Course Claude would always quit because he was afraid somebody would learn something standing next to him,” remembers Bret.
Go again to 1941 and the outdated Tulsa Stockyards in Sand Springs and also you’ll see the saddle and harness store that great-uncle Claude began along with his brother Archie.
“The original building was about five miles east of here,” Bret says.
Spring almost 80 years forward and that very same family business continues to be going, nonetheless making saddles, and, today, promoting every kind of cowboy gear, hats, ropes, belts, and boots.
“Here’s one we made. Of course, they’re all custom done,” Bret factors out.
“Yeah, I know all the tricks of the trade,” he continues. “After more than 70 years, we’ve got a lot of them figured out, but we’re never too old to learn more.”
Uncle Claude didn’t like making boots, so he stopped early on. But all the Mocks actually preferred working cattle and rodeoing.
They solid relationships with huge names in the rodeo business and backed them up with a agency handshake.
“The cowboy tradition has been pretty deep in us,” says Mock. “You just do what you like to do.”
Bret’s two sons will nonetheless pitch in sometimes in the event that they’re not out rodeoing.
But Dad makes an excellent argument for persevering with the family business.
Cowboying is tough work, he says, particularly in the winter.
“I’d either be riding a horse or working in here,” he chuckles. “I like it better in here because it’s climate controlled.”
The Mock Brothers make wherever from 15 to twenty saddles per 12 months now.
The wait to take supply is about one 12 months.
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