Eddie Watson, "An Egg Bar Heart Bar Shoe You Can Make"
Im trying to figure out the last part of this formula that Eddie Watson used to make these shoes.
From the American Farriers Journal December 1995 issue it says;
Get Correct Measurements
Watson begins making the shoe by measuring the hoof for an egg bar shoe.
“This will vary a little bit depending on how you want to treat steel. As most of you know, you can have a 12 in. piece of steel for 10 people and you will probably get 10 different sizes of shoes when the come back to you,” he quips.
A consideration is whether to plain stamp or crease the shoe. He allows 1 in. of bar stock for creased shoes and 1 1/2 in. for a plain-stamped shoe.
“In my opinion, all therapeutic shoes should be creased since the horse likely has a sore foot of some kind or you wouldn’t be putting it on him,” he says.
“If he’s got a sore foot, you certainly don’t want to put a pair of 4s down so he tries to pull them off. So you crease the shoe and you crease the nail posts and pull the nails out and the shoe comes off easily so you don’t hurt the horse.”
When measuring as if he were making an egg bar shoe, Watson sticks the ruler 1 in. in front of the foot to allow for creasing, then measures back to the point of the hoof where he wants the bar to stop. In the case of the horse on which he demonstrated at the symposium, Watson had a measurement of 6 3/4 in.
“Now you don’t even need a ruler. You can measure this with a stick, so you just put your finger right where you want that bar to stop,” he says.
Next Watson measures by putting his finger to the widest point of the hoof, then returns back to the inside of the buttress for a further mesurement.
“Now if you’ve got a stick, that’s the length of your bar stock,” Watson says. “But since I’ve got a ruler, that’s 14 in. of steel that it would take to make and egg bar for this horse.”
Can someone explain the part in bold? I know where the widest point of the hoof is and understand where the buttress are just can’t get if he is talking about putting your finger on Duckett’s Dot, the side of the hoof or what? Seems like their should be another step to this formula. :confused:
