I box and safe (the meidal branch) with the grinder after the shoe is cooled and then make sure it fits before I nail it. Where I am fitting real full for some reason I'll box with the hammer while it's hot then linnish with the grinder.
Love the word linish, I heard it used in the Iron trades years back, good to hear it again. When Smitty used it here, I thought he meant 'finish' but had been into the good Irish stuff and his speach was a bit slured.
Bill

GOing easey on the black stuff this time of year Bill

Always good to go easy, Smitty, as do I.
Speaking of Boxing, my apprentice son and his little brother had their first bouts this weakend. Luke, 20yrs, won and Jess, 10yrs, got a draw. Once I get Jess under more horses he ought to do better.
Bill

I know this isn't boxing per se, but when I make show shoes for Clydesdales, a lot of owners spec full bevel-edged shoes, to visually increase the size of the foot. This is normally the first stage in making the shoe from flat bar stock, where the blank is heated, and the outside edge of the shoes fully bevelled right the way round, on the anvil. The trick is to allow the bevel to "wash-out" towards the toe clip, otherwise, you got real fun trying to put them in last. It takes a bit more time then a normal working draft shoe to make, as you really have to get the shape damn near perfect, you dont want to be stuffing around with it once it's been nailed.

Ron Oldenbeuving wrote:
"Stuffing Around" I like it. May I have your permission to use that term? Is "stuffing around with it" what you have to do when you don't "get after it" while it's hot?

Ron Oldenbeuving wrote:
i hope your charging plenty for those hand made bevels
have you any pics of them on the feet

full bevel edged shoes.... I used to call that "Scotching," but Edward Martin took me to task for using that term. I was feeling so small when he got through with me that I forgot to ask what it should be called Anybody got a shorthand term for this?