yes, the creaser turned out good; thanks George..the unfinished racetrack barshoe turn out better than expected from Nov. 17th clinic/hammer-in with Chris. well, first time ever turning concave. RH is mangled the right side was done first; then turned the left side. got better as I kept turning it, heels, and nailing to. it is interesting to see the progression of these shoes and the smith behind them. the LH/LF turned out pretty good. turned 5 more shoes after that; but are unfinished at best. Had a good hammer-in over at Abners, hung out with Matt Tamuity who help me in forge with some pointers; and Tom Bloomer who gave me some new hammer handles, thanks....and the rest of the Amish there practicing their forging; and Abner made a beautiful pair of hind concaves as well.
If I make a tool which I have to punch a hole, if the hole isn't perfect it gets thrown on the floor and start over.
Its about where I thought it would be John. Linda I would love to see some of your horse work, but in your own time. PS you need to spend some time on tool maintenance, it an apprentice made a shoe for me with a stamp like that it would get launched out of the forge. (unless its the camera angle.)
This is the point i was making if someone is telling someone else how to make hand mades for there horse and they cant make a basic forged heel
The cutting edge looks to be about centered on the tool, which is good. The hole you punched really makes that an unusable tool. Not for nothing, it's not a very good barshoe. I have my doubts that you can actually make a heartbar and get it on the foot let alone telling other people that's what they should be doing.
I sometimes drill a small 1/4 inch hole through the tool, and then punch, seems to keep the punch straighter.
your nail hole are to big, your nail placement is wrong, the fullering is starting in the wrong spot the good thing it resembles a foot (shape)
As John says, I can fix up level shape any shoe made by anybody no matter how bad. But if the nail hole are rubbish then my scrap pile is about 30 yards from the shop, I can hit it every time.
me too! I tried too hard and made myself not what I was expecting; but you got the good, the bad and the ugly. and this way you could give me the pointers that I need. none of this rubbish of making 50 x's shoe till perfect; then show you. that is being dishonest to myself. you don't learn that way. but as you look at you can see it get better as I go along.....RH mangled and the first shoe.... too hyper....RF is better; but still look at the nail holes....now LH was actually the best....and I change it..once I got to the LF I started to think and calm down long enough to focus on heels...and nails and the 2 upper on outside branch is good.
