DRIVEN BY TRADITION

“I got Louisiana tied up over here. It’s mine,” JB “Barry” Guillory quipped about being a lone Louisiana bit and spur maker. “I think there’s one other guy who might make spurs.”

The son of a butcher, Guillory grew up horseback, but without horsemanship or an obvious path to becoming a maker. In his 20s, however, he came across both via an introduction to cutting.

“There was a trainer by the name of Bob Bouget down on my end and he taught me a lot about horses,” Guillory said of the man he credits with his that year—and he needed spurs for his herd helpers, and those were the first four pairs of spurs I sold.”