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First shoe ive made in a couple of years and has all the signs of it! My Phillipeano collegue made his first ever shoe today but didnt want me to post a picture, I dont know why it was amazing for a first attemppt would nail on no problem.

Well..Yesterday I got my aluminium bar stock and today I made my first handmade aluminium shoe.It looks a Scruggs shoe because it has the name of farrier marked.

well done

But, you spelled SCRUGGS wrong.

Thanks,Jhon. I hope to progress with the practice.

Tom, Scruggs is the translation to english of the Spanish Gabino !!

Gabino made a pair of these for a mare some time back
a bit of aluminium i found in the van
she moved well with them on (lami mare)

I think it was a bit of 1x1/2 (DEEP SEATED)

John why didnt you use some natural balance shoes and plywood ?

i remember the day well ,i was showing the App how to work ALI
and he never seen a Deep seated shoe been made
these are the things you have to do when your app asks you

My very first shoes then last one

I've got a ways to go yet.

Kim,I admire your effort,but I believe that you need a good master. I'm not a master,but I can give you an advice for "write" the map of shoe in your brain: "Practice with old shoes:straighten firstly one branch,then turn him. When you are capable of turn him correctly,straighten all old shoe and turn him again". The apprentices have a problem; they want forge like the masters and they must forge like apprentices. If you try to imitate Smitty or Craig Trnka,you will frustrated. You make the better in your forge level,and then,go to the next step.
I want suggest the lecture of these articles. My Spanish is hard for translate with Google,but you can see the pics and you can imagine the process.

http://www.farriergabino.com/articu...bre-forja/150-practicas-con-herraduras-viejas

In this another article I explain the "Methode of 5".

http://www.farriergabino.com/articulos-y-casos/12-algo-sobre-forja/392-la-forja-del-aluminio

Thanks.

Now i'm confused

What the first set is my very first effort. I think I've come a long way from those.

Not with you Kim

With me? Wonder me all you want, quiet man !!

I think your mixing me up with John Wane

Gabino, I let it slide that you posted my rockerbar on your site with some horrible explanation to the mechanics of it but a line might need to be drawn with you giving forging demos.

Yes!!!! Here,at Spain, The Quiet Man is John Wayne. A person very very apreciated. Really,John,when I hear Irish or Ireland, I think about that movie. The garden of your wife looks the Maureen O'Hara home.



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