i think a well made hand-made shoe for a foot has alot goining for it but unless its well made in all the areas i wont bore you with you might aswell fit anything else on. some people think because they fit hand-mades they are doing the best possible job out there if it were all that easy .
Of course it does. You can get the nail fit you want and where you want them. Clips if you need them. Width and thickness desired. And style of shoe need to help the horse do it's job.
it surprising even what some think good nail placement and fit is or a well forge everyday clip never mind anything else
a good eye opener is to try make a pair of everyday shoes have a look at them when your finished and I don't mean spend all day at them
i could make one in the morning and another in the afternoon and with a bit of luck nail em on at night
would have thought you would have 4 in the fire never known an English man to make one shoe at a time even all those years ago when we knocked at Duckett door at 11.30 at night he made 2 shoes one was a tool/fullered and a concave and fitted to a cob
i know exactly where you are coming from , one thing i cannot understand is why start to make a shoe and then not finishing it , it only takes a few minutes to make
For some feet my hand made shoes are no better than machine mades, for others they are. I don't think that just because a shoe is machine made it is necessarily a bad shoe.
Just as you and Dave said... my first thought was "Oh Sh1t!"and then "I hope they don't think I can get a shoe on that..."
how is that Smitty, they are werkmans with E-5 nail.....today, real quick to take pic, in a hurry, vet was coming for another horse. checked shoes; it seems it is only the light "0"B shoes that even an E-4 does not set correctly in the shoes, and do use these shoes quite often.
geez, boy~~~~~ was I in a hurry......did't block the toe nail ....before taking the picture the one on the right is
