Just off Main Street in Bozeman is Black Sheep: A local leather goods store, full of chaps, saddles, and other custom gear.

"Cowboys are my favorite people to work with," said the owner of Black Sheep Custom Leather, Brian Esslinger.

From a young age, Esslinger said he loved art and design and dreamed of opening his own shop he just didn't know what type of shop.

Watch Esslinger create saddles from start to finish:

While working as a cobbler at a leather store in Salt Lake City, he asked his mentor to show him how to build saddles.

"One night, we were in his shop, and we were carving something together, and he looked over and said: 'Brian, if you want me to teach you how to build saddles, I'll teach you how to build saddles'."

Since then, Esslinger has been making custom leather gear

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