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Location: Juntura, Oregon | Tres Rios! They have great customer service and everyone who has won our buckles from them has loved them! i have buckles from them from years ago and they are holding up great! |
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Location: NE Texas | Crumrine makes some really beautiful custom trophy buckles. They do the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo buckles as well. They are reasonable to work with and the designers are amazing at what all they can create. |
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| A Cut Above Buckles. They are great to work with! I have friends that wear their buckles everyday and they hold up to the pressure. Personally, if I win a buckle I want to win something that I am proud to wear. I have won a Maynard and I dont think the quality is that great - actually its the ugliest buckle I have, so it just sits in my closet. IMO...Spend the extra cash and purchase something people want to wear. |
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| Mis_Trev - 2016-02-23 12:06 PM
A Cut Above Buckles. They are great to work with! I have friends that wear their buckles everyday and they hold up to the pressure. Personally, if I win a buckle I want to win something that I am proud to wear. I have won a Maynard and I dont think the quality is that great - actually its the ugliest buckle I have, so it just sits in my closet. IMO...Spend the extra cash and purchase something people want to wear.
We did the Knifes and Buckles from A Cut Above for our year end awards and they were beautiful! Everybody was pleased with them. 
Edited by LAC 2016-02-23 1:08 PM
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| I have won pretty much every buckle listed on these two pages, my favorites by far are A Cut Above, Red Bluff, Yellow Hair, Bob Berg and as of Sunday, Dale Chavez. Bob Berg does very nice buckles for $125 a piece. A Cut Above are absolutely gorgeous but can get quite spendy for the better quality.
This weekend I took my Dale Chavez out of my truck with the intentions to take it in to the house. My husband was working a colt in the round pen and needed something out of the trailer. I set my buckle on the bed of the truck and got what hubby needed, talked with him for several minutes then headed to town. I totally forgot my buckle was on the bed rail and drove off with it. About 3 miles down the road I caught it in my mirror go flying off the bed rail and bounce down the road at 70 miles an hour and land detail down. I was absolutely heartbroken. It is the first buckle I had won in years. I picked it up off the highway and was surprised to see that only a few of the berries on the edge were marred (almost unnoticeable) and two stones had broke. I have not called the company to see what it will cost to get the stones replaced but I was extremely impressed with how it held up!
Edited by cyount2009 2016-02-23 2:27 PM
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Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | Clint Mortensen out of Sante Fe does some really nice work, I have some of his buckles from the 90's up to the past few years. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Thanks so much! Will be looking into the rest of these.
Has anyone ever gotten buckles from Monsoon/Frontier? I am guessing they bought out Frontier buckles. They look nice and do communicate quickly with me so far.
I am trying to come up with a logo for my series for the buckles, and other awards. It is called "Money Talks" $eries. Main prizes are cash, and several other awards. |
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