the iron dwarf Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 got some horse shoe nails and wondered what people made them into. I know of 2 types of rings made from them ( one knotted and one just wrapped around ) but what have you made from them? longest is about 73mm and shortest is 50mm ( just under 3 inches to about 2 inches ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo7 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I've seen a cross made out of them, hard to explain but was (iirc) around 6" high x 4" wide, only horse shoe nails were used in its construction, all tied together with horse shoe nails. Wish I had a pic of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
781 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Friends make little spice spoons another makes rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Rings, crosses, necklase decorations, ear rings, small hooks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted November 7, 2015 Author Share Posted November 7, 2015 wow Charles, only 1 spelling error seriously though thank you all for the ideas, will be ordering my minion to make things soon and we will post pix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 1 hour ago, 781 said: Friends make little spice spoons another makes rings "Spice" spoons ..... hmmm ..... sure, I'll buy that. Do they make "Spice" straws too ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 The sight is not screwing with my spell check so much, lol on the necklas use differnt sized nailes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Commonly found in many books, here are some samples I made and had chrome plated, was not happy with finish and still have them somewhere in the scrap pile. Have fun, silver soldering is for best quality job, bronze weld, the soft solder, or forge weld them together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Flattened in the forge, they make nice toes for a junk art climbing frog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthibeau Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 I want that frog !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKForge Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 My mentor once forge welded a bunch together and made a bar so that he could make a size 2 horseshoe then creased and punched it. It looks awesome but he said he would never do it again. I told him I didnt blame him. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimsShip Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 If you google you'll find all sorts of stuff. I used to make tiny leaves out of the heads for bookmarks. I'm still looking for that perfect horseshoe nail ring jig, doing them on the cone is very time consuming! I did save this PDF of making the spoon jig, but never made it. (There was an awesome thread here that got really heated on the subject of whether the "spice spoon" was in fact an actual historic implement or just a fancy tale created by those who would use it for their own habits!) Horseshoe_Nail_Spoon_Jig.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 It's a salt spoon!! Every homestead had one in the old days in a container near the stove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swedefiddle Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Tomato, Tamahto. Call it what you wish. We call it a spice spoon, just for a titch. One of our members makes E9 nails into "Baby Dragons". With a little kibitzing when selling them to some Ladies, they get called "Blacksmith Sperm". (I guess you have to be there!!). Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Funny over here they didn't use steel spoons in the salt, silver, wood, horn, etc things that didn't rust in contact with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimsShip Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 10 hours ago, swedefiddle said: One of our members makes E9 nails into "Baby Dragons". Any pics.? I'd love to see one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 the other term they use for them would seem to indicate a basic morphology... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 How about attaching horseshoes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Horseshoe attaching devise, how interesting! Back in the day of my wearing a shirt and tie daily my favorite tie tack was a horseshoe nail. Had a friend who was on the Corp. Board of the company who made Campbell Horse shoe nails and he was often giving me small boxes of nails as he didn't want them. After he passed away my free supply dried up. We made a bunch of rings for Christmas gifts one year and then spent half the next year "resizing" to fit everyone wouldn't do that again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I've seen very nice dragon flies made from them. Caltrops to keep barefoot streakers off your lawn? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the iron dwarf Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 as to attaching horse shoes with them, here in the UK IIRC it is a 6 year qualification to become a farrier so I cant do that nice work John and ausfire, thank you and thanks for the other ideas here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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