Subject: Re: Any Blacksmiths in Nashville?

From: [email-masked] (Thomas M. Everett )
Date: 1 Nov 1995 17:48:56 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Manicia
Stephens) writes: 
>
>I live in Nashville, TN and was wondering if there were any
blacksmiths in=
>=20
>town.  I would love to see what goes on in a blacksmith's shop.  I am
very=
>=20
>interested in getting into it myself.  Please respond to
mstephens@trendar.=
>com=20
>if anyone is interested in letting me visit.

Check in you local phone book for farriers (horse shoers) or riding
stables and ask who the local farriers/horse shoers are.  Then give
them a call and see if you can follow them around for a day.  Or go to
a local tack store (look under horses, equestrian, hay and grain, etc.)
and go pick up one of the free "horse trader" magazines.  There are
usually advertisements for horse shoeing schools, anywhere from weekend
seminars to 2-4-8 week courses.  I know that this is a little
specialized as opposed to only blacksmithing, but it is a start...being
>from  Nashville, I'm sure that there are a lot of horse shoers around. 
Find out who does Randy Travis' horses.  Doesn't he have a horse ranch
around there?

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Cook)
Date: 3 Nov 1995 10:43:00 GMT

Thomas M. Everett wrote:
>stables and ask who the local farriers/horse shoers are.

Farriers are not a good place to start. It is not only highly specialized,
it doesn't have very much to do with smithing. Some farriers still adjust
the shoes hot, but even this is dying out.

A better place is to look for a chapter of ABANA in the area. I think there
is one.

--RC