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Randy Butters Lone Star Spurs

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Randy Butters Lone Star Spurs
Fully mounted Gal Legs overlaid in silver, golden bronze and copper, featuring the words TEXAS / LONE STAR STATE engraved around a 5-pt cut-out silver and gold star on the heelband with silver stalks on each side. The gal legs have a Lone Star copper garter, golden bloomers and copper high-top shoes with gold heels. The heart-shaped swinging buttons have an inlaid Texas Star on one side and a longhorn on the other. The off-side features an engraved copper star with silver longhorn. The cut-out 2 1/2", 24 pt rowels continue the theme. Randy has fashioned matching, 3-color buckle sets affixed to Bob Marrs (Amarillo, Texas) two-piece leathers. Randy Butters is a Michigan farmer who met a Colorado girl in Washington D C during the Tractorcade of 1978. The couple married, and Butters was introduced to custom made spurs by his father in law, who was an avid collector and admirer. In 1985, he made his first pair of spurs out of a Chevy log wrench and has been making spurs on a full time basis ever since. Texas spurs are an extension of the cowboy himself says Butters and he has developed his own distinctive spur style through trial and error, working out of the Texas tradition. He admires the fluid lines of the Gal-Leg shank, and has developed his own signature swan pattern spur based on an order from the late Buddy Pointer of Abilene, Texas. Randy’s work can be seen in museums across the country, and he has become one of the top makers in the United States. Randy still farms in his home state of Michigan. He and his wife Brenda have five children and one of his sons now also makes spurs. Randy was the recipient of the 2005 award for the Spur Maker of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.