Horse Head Hoof Pick

Demonstration by Bill Epps

www.besmithy.com

November 1, 2000
 
BILL
EPPS
Tonight's demo is something, I have been making for 20 years, I think Mr. Elmer Seybold, deceased showed it to me.

You take an old horseshoe, preferably one you just pulled off a horse, and turn it into a $20 Bill. Here's how:)

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To make the horsehead, refer back to the I-Forge Demo, #17, as I won't go into the detail of how again tonight.

Figure 03
This is the simple end, for the folks that don't want to spend the extra $10.

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BILL
EPPS
Heat up the center of the shoe, and cut it in 1/2 on the hardy at the toe.

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BILL
EPPS
After we cut it into at the center of the toe, we take one, and bend it over the edge at about a 45 deg. angle AT THE END OF THE CREASE

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This is the metal we will use to draw out and make the hook or pic end (for those of you who don't own horses, you use this to clean out the hooves).

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BILL
EPPS
We start drawing this out as long as you can on the face of the anvil. This should come out about 2 1/2 to 3" long.

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BILL
EPPS
As in the previous figure, you bring this to a crisp 90 deg. I flatten the point slightly, to give it sort of a screwdriver effect, then I come over the horn of the anvil and turn the pic, leaving the last 3/8" to 1/2" of the end straight.
BILL
EPPS
I put the horsehead on it for an additional $10, putting 3 letter stamped initials from the end of the crease to the heel of the shoe can add an add'l $5. Anytime you can sell a used horse shoe for $20 to $25 and don't have to bend over to nail it on, you are bound to be making money:)

Any questions?
HAWK
Where did you say the horse head Demmo is at?? Please?
BILL
EPPS
The horsehead is Demo. #17 on the I-forge page.
TOM-STOVALL
Can I hear an amen?
TEN-HAMMERS
Amen. Even I can sell these.
TOM-STOVALL
I've always liked the part about making money off a shoe too wore out to nail back on.
DIMAG
AAmen:) Bill sent me one of these a couple of years ago and I have been making them ever since[not as nice as Bill's yet tho]and I sell all I can make.Good sellers at Xmas for some reason.
BILL
EPPS
I have made them out from everything from 00 to #2's, but I prefer the #1 horseshoe.
PIX
Bill I like it... Just made two picks for the KY abana fest.(donated) , {Point on one end, scraper on the other, with a twisted handle.
BILL
EPPS
Mainly, I use whatever the horseshoers drop off when they come shoe the horses, cause I ain't in the busineses of nailing on horseshoes anymore, LOL:)


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