Making a push gouge

[peformancehorseshoer]

anybody ever made their own push gouge, if so, how did you guys do it.

[J.H. shoeing]

I took a hack saw and sawed the left hand shaft off of a 1/4 hp Baldor buffer that a fellow with no morals or values sold me as new on the internet. I forged that shaft into a push gouge in the forge and put a nice handle on that was easy to push. I still have a piece of the shaft left, would you like a piece of it?

[smitty88]

I know alot of lads that use there knife to gouge under the nail
just useing hand presure

[Ray_Knightley]

Look into wood working tools they have small very sharp gouges for carving..
they have a round wooden handle ,but i do not know the correct name ,,sorry.
I have always made gouges a chain saw file gives you the grove needed and a flat file for the back of the gouge..

ray knightley.farrier.

[smitty88]

Are you a Carpenter Ray:D:D

[Ray_Knightley]

No! my singing is no good !!

ray,

[mustang farrier service]

thats a pretty pricey tool jeff,but then again not everybody can say they have a baldor gouge.-gary

[J--bar--A]

Seems you could make one from an old rasp. Already has the tang for a handle and should be hard enough?:confused: Might have to try that myself.

[Jim Sweeney]

Somewhere I saw a gouge that attached to the base of your rasp just above the handle. I can't for the life of me find it again. It interested me because it seemed like it would be one less tool swap. Has anyone used one of those?

[J.H. shoeing]

Somewhere I saw a gouge that attached to the base of your rasp just above the handle. I can't for the life of me find it again. It interested me because it seemed like it would be one less tool swap. Has anyone used one of those?

I have got two of them, Jim Poor makes them calls them Cookie Cutters after Derrick Cooke CJF.
But I also have a dandy one I made out of a baldor buffer shaft that some fellow named Pete Rossthingamadoodle from Defiance MO sold me as new. If a horseshoer will steal from another farrier on a $200 deal what will they do when it gets tough??

[Bryan McElwee]

I have got two of them, Jim Poor makes them calls them Cookie Cutters after Derrick Cooke CJF.
But I also have a dandy one I made out of a baldor buffer shaft that some fellow named Pete Rossthingamadoodle from Defiance MO sold me as new. If a horseshoer will steal from another farrier on a $200 deal what will they do when it gets tough??

Thats a pretty high dollar gouge you have there Jeff. You better take good care of it!

[Jim Sweeney]

I have got two of them, Jim Poor makes them calls them Cookie Cutters after Derrick Cooke CJF.
But I also have a dandy one I made out of a baldor buffer shaft that some fellow named Pete Rossthingamadoodle from Defiance MO sold me as new. If a horseshoer will steal from another farrier on a $200 deal what will they do when it gets tough??

Do you have two of them in everyday use? Or are they in the bottom of your rig somewhere? Are they handy? Looked like a slick idea. Sorry you got the "shaft" from that guy, but at least you found a use for it.

[J.H. shoeing]

I don't know how I ended up with two. I keep a gouge in my box but usually use a rasp. I use a gouge when I hammer clinch, I only hammer enough of them to be able to do it.

[Travis Reed]

(Jeff quote)
If a horseshoer will steal from another farrier on a $200 deal what will they do when it gets tough??

Jeff I am not sure why he needed the $200 so bad that he would swindle you. Mr Pete Rosciglione of Defiance, MO should have enough money to burn a wet mule. According to him in the April edition of the American Farriers Journal (if you take the time to do the job right, you will be amazed at how you can cure almost anything) if you cured almost ever foot problem you should be famous with money to burn. I have a lot of learning to do most of my work seems to be in maintaining the hoof not out right cures. I also like the quote about how Mr Rosciglione uses his picture images of hoofs to convince guys to expand their work and he likes showing the pictures to guys to show them that its simple stuff and anybody can do it.

[John Emsley]

Been reading this thread with interest, because I've never been a fan or practitioner of gouging under a nail. When I first started there was a farrier that did this and it left such pock marked hoof walls that it would take several settings to return to normal. A simple swipe with the rasp under the nail removes the burr and doesn't leave the holes/grooves that I'm referring to. Looking at your albums Smitty, I do not see any evidence of gouging, am I missing something? :confused:
Just wondering.
John

[Travis Reed]

I am in the same boat john I have two gouges I never use. I have tried them from time to time but with no luck. I saw Austin Edens at a clinic about 4 years back and he spent about 30min on clinching. Austin made a lot of sense in the clinic and I have done it the way he explained since that day.

[Rick Burten]

I use a gouge every day. Mine are hammer gouges rather than push gouges.

The one I have been using for the past several years is made by Butch Hockaday http://www.bulldogtools.net/wood_handled_products.htm (scroll down the page to see the gouges). These gouges are designed as push gouges so I had Butch extend the tang out the back of the handle so I could use my hammer with it. Works like a charm.

[John Emsley]

I use a gouge every day. Mine are hammer gouges rather than push gouges.

Rick, thanks for the good web site. Different strokes for different folks. :)
John