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I may be doing an army blacksmith impression doing demonstrations of making hand turned horseshoes during a Civil War living history weekend in the blacksmith shop of a historic fort. By the way I’m a farrier so I can make horseshoe and such, but I’m looking for period information on blacksmith, particularly army blacksmiths. I know this subject is lacking in info and research, something I’m hoping to change once I can really digging into researching the topic and develop an authentic impression. I will be using the fort’s period correct forage, but I’m going to be researching period portable forages, not those incorrect rivet forages with crank blowers you see everyone using a events.
Does anybody have any info or know of any online sources, period books or manuals on the subject. I’m really interested in the tools that they used. Tongs, hammers, punches and such are basically the same as today, but I’m not sure about hoof nippers, knifes, or pull-offs. I have a German manual written in the 1880’s, the closest to the 1860's I have found so far, which it did talk about the use of hoof nippers and had a crud hoof knife, but it’s not from the correct time period. I believe they did have hoof knifes then, but a sole knife was more common, which is the opposite now. I would appreciate any info anyone has.
Thanks
I may be doing an army blacksmith impression doing demonstrations of making hand turned horseshoes during a Civil War living history weekend in the blacksmith shop of a historic fort. By the way I’m a farrier so I can make horseshoe and such, but I’m looking for period information on blacksmith, particularly army blacksmiths. I know this subject is lacking in info and research, something I’m hoping to change once I can really digging into researching the topic and develop an authentic impression. I will be using the fort’s period correct forage, but I’m going to be researching period portable forages, not those incorrect rivet forages with crank blowers you see everyone using a events.
Does anybody have any info or know of any online sources, period books or manuals on the subject. I’m really interested in the tools that they used. Tongs, hammers, punches and such are basically the same as today, but I’m not sure about hoof nippers, knifes, or pull-offs. I have a German manual written in the 1880’s, the closest to the 1860's I have found so far, which it did talk about the use of hoof nippers and had a crud hoof knife, but it’s not from the correct time period. I believe they did have hoof knifes then, but a sole knife was more common, which is the opposite now. I would appreciate any info anyone has.
Thanks
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