How to bend
Horseshoes For Crafts
Blacksmithing - Forging A Horseshoe Heart
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alright guys on the last week day of the
year where I might have enough time
after work to to get some projects done
I lose in an hour this weekend I'm
making some horseshoe hearts so a nice
quick project and the results are I love
them I think they're awesome
so the idea here is what I did is I have
a pony number one size horseshoe
actually bought these new because only
about two bucks each and just to
experiment things like that
so we're going to take this pony size
one which you know depending on the size
heart you want your knees different size
horseshoe and we're going to turn this
into a heart so stay tuned and watch
this the first thing I like to do just
to keep myself where I need to be is go
ahead and kind of put a little mark
where I think the center of this shoe is
on the
the rounded end just uh just a little
mark so I can see that once it's hot and
go ahead and heat that up okay the first
step of the skimmer to open that shoe up
and do it any way you want
I like to do it through the hardy hole
and I like this hole on both sides to
try to get that curve as easy as even as
possible so that yeah it's pretty
uniform the rafter is much of a uniform
curve as you can there's my mark there
I usually go back for another piece just
so that I'm not fighting it on the next
step but we probably have enough heat
there too but we're go back one more
time alright so our next step we'll put
that into the bottom of the heart which
one do is find the best spot on your
amble you can go ahead and put a nice
little B in television
like that try to keep it flat and then
which video is going to work that up in
this direction and in that direction so
you end up with a nice point then what I
end up doing is that work one side on
top the other side on the bottom and
I'll flip it around and then balloon
them I still miss unum and I'll do the
same thing on the other side that gives
me a little more symmetry so 20 or your
amble edge is the more of a point you're
going to have in here that's the best I
can get out of this but that's going to
be good so you see kind of where we're
going with that back to the core you
haven't noticed I got my little weight
off the inform if the graphs going to
use the more on this one use that horn
curve this thing around and then the
flatness them down to a point
nice organ curve to it a little too
close right around those old corners off
little bits move it all up get the point
you want I don't mind a little bit of
hammer walk in there because I like it
so look kind of like it's forged
blotting it out a little again here is
you don't want to distort any other you
know the attributes of the horseshoe so
that's one side done keep that second
one down basically the same way
one symmetrical with the other one you
know the point that you choose to put on
it really doesn't matter to you but you
want both to be about the same but a lot
of guys can go ahead and finish this up
in this the same heat I like one more
now you certainly don't need a full heat
on this last one but you're gonna do is
start bringing those guys together
sometimes if you do right over the edge
of the horn here helps maintain some of
that curvature on the corner of the
heart once you go by it like it is there
good never happen
get back out there
and then you just basically we're doing
this fine-tuning at this point and so
you like the way it looks totally up to
you how much they line up how much they
don't line up there's gonna be a curve
in and at all there you have it so if I
curve this a little bit more that
would've been a narrower heart a little
bit better point on the end if you want
that but I really like the way that
looked definitely see the horseshoe in
it so I'll hit it on the wire brush I'll
bring it back for a final look see and
that's it
again I start with a nice clean noose
new horseshoe depending on what you
start with bigger shoe you're gonna get
much bigger heart obviously a rusty or
shooting a more rustic looking thing but
I wear brushed it quickly I like
throwing a little bit of the tempering
colors in so I got some purples and some
gold brought it up you know pretty darn
warm and then wax the warm so I got a
nice dark finish on it
and there you go horseshoe heart that's
how I do it anyway until next time take
care
