id love to have dealings with her LOL , first met in june 85 , thats why i keep calling in when passing
Ok just got in chris. Dave gully said to me one day if an app in his 1st year cant make 36 pairs of shoes a day he is no good to me. that man i believe has trained 46 app some of the very best
thats how it was back then John , they are spoilt today , one thing ive noticed that they men who still make shoes on a daily basis are the ones trained by people like David
if you cannot make shoes properly IMO you cannot shoe horses properly , now listen to the wingers replies lol
I made all my shoes for a short while when I came back from Oz and wasn't busy but found with the cost of gas and concave stock it was costing me more and at the time I was skint so went with the cheapest import pieces of crap I could find.
Very dear but at 85 euro a drum of gas making 3/4 fullerd's, for me anyway, wouldn't be worth while. I would usually get 2 re-sets form 3/4 fullered machiner's where I wouldn't with handmade concave, and the stud holes seem to last better and be easier to fit for people on the flat section, so I prefer to use 3/4 fullered. If I was working with someone or had an apprentice as you and Chris do I could see it being worthwhile though. Having said that there is not the same job satisfaction using machiner's
