Take a look inside the Uptmore Saddlery shop, a throwback to simpler times.
Editorâs note: The Tribune-Herald in this holiday season is profiling modern-day artisans and how they contribute to a growing Waco craft scene.
Daniel Uptmor was studying industrial technology and riding bulls on the Tarleton State University rodeo team when he asked the guy who made his leather chaps if he could give him a job.
Uptmor, who likes working with his hands and who fell in love with the craft, learned enough at that part-time job at the Stephenville leatherworking shop to give him a Plan B, fallback vocation when he could not find a job in his degree field.