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Here’s your chance to be part of an extraordinary learning experience while expanding your forging skills
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2009 | Posted in Forging
It’s been a full decade since the annual Mail-In Forging Exercise was established to help you expand your shoe-building skills.
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Finding the Right Fit for Titanium

Farriers say newest generation of shoes have earned a place on their shoeing racks.
By Michael Wharton posted on April 1, 2009 | Posted in Forging
Farriers are lucky to have a wide variety of skills, tools and materials to take care of horses' feet. When that new client calls, we sometimes need all three to do the job. I've always tried to stay on top of information that can help me do the right thing for my customers in all three areas.
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Farriers Weigh in on Missing Frogs

January 1, 2009 | Posted in Forging, Shoeing, Trimming

A client has obtained a rescue horse, which I trimmed about 10 weeks ago. At that time, the frog was gone from three hooves. I didn’t think anything about it since most horses were shedding frogs at that time.


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Brazilian Captures Mail-In Forging Exercise Honors

This unique forging exercise helps shoers improve their forging skills and leads to higher quality day-to-day hoof-care work
By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2008 | Posted in Forging
After participating in the Calgary mail-in forging exercise for 6 years, Flavio Souza captured top honors this year. The Brazilian farrier from Serra Negra, San Paulo, says earning this honor is one of the highlights of his shoeing career.
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Mule Days Celebration Pays Homage To Walt Taylor

Farrier honored for support of event and support of fellow shoers
By Pat Tearney posted on July 1, 2008 | Posted in Education, Forging
One of the founding fathers of the American Farrier's Association received a new honor recently, when Walt Taylor of Albuquerque, N.M., was named "Best Friend of the Farrier," during the 39th annual Mule Days Celebration in Bishop, Calif.
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Expand Your Forging Knowledge Without Leaving Home!

The Calgary Mail-In Forging Exercise is an outstanding learning experience and a great way to expand your footcare skills
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Forging
Now in its ninth year, the Mail-In Forging Exercise offers you a highly educational opportunity to expand your forging skills and earn a wide variety of valuable farrier products while being an important part of the World Championship Blacksmiths' Competition held each July in Calgary, Alberta.
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Cutting A Capped-Toe Bar Shoe

Here’s a different type of approach to making this year’s Calgary Mail-In Shoe
By Chris Gregory posted on January 1, 2008 | Posted in Forging

 The year - like the last several - has screamed by and it is once again time to start thinking about the Calgary Mail-In Shoe Exercise. This year we have a shoe that is close to a repeat of a previous Mail-In, so I decided to make the shoe using a different method. 


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