His favorite events were always reining and working cowhorse winning consistently in
each of these events in his younger days. In 1972, he purchased a western saddle and
tack store in the pacific northwest and became very interested in providing professional
quality saddles and tack to top professional western trainers and showmen of the day.  
This led to a full-time  manufacture and repair shop with his brother, Paul White. After
selling his shop to his brother, he left for Texas in 1981 to start a new venture in saddle
making and the rest is history. Jim has applied his experience in training pens and show
rings to building equipment that really works.  In his words, “we build the ridability first
and the pretty second”.  He rides what he makes and knows what to listen for when
designing a professional quality saddle for trainers making a living in the saddle.

JWS SADDLERY has teamed up with Jim Taylor to bring you a new and exciting era
for the reining and working cowhorse saddle industry.
With the experience of Jim Taylor and the new ideas of JWS we will strive to bring you
the rideability, consistency and quality you  have  come to expect in a high quality
saddle.
Jim Taylor has spent most of his life in the company of
horses of all kinds including breeds ranging from
thouroughbreds, appaloosas, paints, arabians,
and quarter horses.  He began with just plain trail riding to
almost every western event  offered in the show ring.  Like
most aspiring riders, Jim worked for many different trainers
to learn all he could.  He has trained, rode, and shown in
everything from western pleasure, trail,
equitation,hackamore and full bridle stockhorses.