Building A Plain Yet Not So Simple Shoe

摘要

Five-time American Farriers Team member details how to make a shoe that is the foundation of all others. Learning the alphabet is the foundation of a child's ability to read and write. The plain-stamped horseshoe serves the same role for farriers learning how to forge."If you can make a basic, fundamentally correct and usable plain-stamped shoe," says Uniondale, Ind., farrier Troy Price, "you have the ability to pretty much make any shoe that you need."Yet, learning the ABCs of forging a plain-stamped shoe isn't as easy as 1-2-3.