This is my original design and I feel it’s the best design I’ve ever done.

I was trained in design by Jay Griffith, who worked with Archer La Force, who worked with Gus Blucher, one of the early cowboy boot makers. I don’t remember ever seeing asymmetry in the work of Kansas boot makers — that appears to have entered the cowboy boot design lexicon through the work of the Mexican/border makers. It took me a long time to use asymmetry, especially in my flowers. I was trained to make very carefully symmetrical flowers but one day I stopped doing that and it improved my work immensely.