About our Products

Most of the products within this website are made from used horse shoes.

We see this re use of what is essentially a ‘scrap’ item into something unique and practical as an ultimate form of simple and sustainable recycling, which in terms of energy usage and pollution caused in their manufacture is far less and therefore a greener option than melting down the shoes and casting into new steel or iron.

It also provides our prospective customers with an individual and unique quality hand crafted product, Although the original shoes may have been made in a factory rather than by the ‘smith’ as in the past, the farrier / smith has heated them and made them fit the horses hoof perfectly by his knowledge and skill.

The end products in this brochure are also entirely hand crafted.

This is how the shoes arrive, first we heat them in the forge to burn off straw, rust and dirt, then once cool we knock out the nails and wire brush them.

From these cleaned shoes we select the right sizes we need in order to make the products you will find on the products page.

Some of the shoes we use ‘as they are’ and weld them together to construct the product, others are heated and formed to shape or some are cut and welded onto the product to make pegs or feet, as in the coat / tack rack and the boot jacks.

On some of the products we use shoes to make the main part of the item and then add scrolls or hoops which are handmade in our workshop to make the finished product.

Because all of our horse shoe products are made from a used product even two identical products will inevitably be slightly different to each other, and therefore completely unique and individual.

All our shoe products are painted with red oxide before the finishing colour is applied.

Stock item colour is black gloss, but other colours or hammer finish can be applied to order.

Return to top of page

Website designed by P.Sharman

All content copyright p.sharman 2007