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I am trying to make horse shoes but I am having the hardest time finding the right steel to buy online. I read steel that is 11-13 inches long and 5/16 x 3/4 works but I cannot find steel by those dimension on online stores. Can anyone show me the way! I would eternally appreciate it.

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World Wide Web---are you in Australia or Finland?  The idea of being a blacksmith is that you can forge steel to size and shape. The size and shape you need depends on the size and type of shoe. A shoe for a Clydesdale hauling heavy loads on paved streets would be different than one for a pleasure horse on lightly ridden soil.

If you want to make shoes to be used; GET TRAINING!  DIY can ruin a horse!  I've been smithing 40 years now and would NOT consider making a shoe without an experienced Farrier looking over my shoulder and telling me what I needed to do.

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The cross section, size and weight of steel you require will be dictated by the type of horseshoe you wish to make. You can make belt buckle size shoes from 5/8" x 1/4" and draft horse shoes from 1 1/2 x 1/2". The shoes in the image are made from 6" and 20" of steel, the smallest and largest shoes that I fit.

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Dimensions of stock,type of stock and just about every other detail will depend on what said horse does for a living what what sort of feet he has. You wouldn’t use 1/4x1/2 to turn a pair of toed and heeled draft shoes no more than you would use 1x3/8 concave to turn a pair of fronts for a 14 hand lead pony.  You can get barstock from any of the online suppliers,can’t give you much in regards to something local because I don’t know where you are located at on this ball of dirt  

 

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