My farrier says that plastic shoes don keep their shape and don hold nails well. Is he right?
Unfortunately, we have to overcome the shortcomings of our competitor’s products (past and present). We used to use the other plastic shoes ourselves and put up with the ‘practical problems’ until it finally drove us to design our own shoe to get around these issues. We now hold a US patent for the key feature that makes a flexible shoe work: the use of two materials on the sole-side. Where the nails go must be relatively hard and stiff, but then a second softer material must be used on the interior to avoid pressure points on the sole or frog. This simple use of two materials is central to what the EponaShoe is about. The EponaShoe will keep it’s shape and will hold nails just fine. Also, the EponaShoe has two small steel stiffeners embedded within the shoe (size 0 and up) which reinforces the nailing system. Farriers who actually try the EponaShoe appreciate the design. You can click here to see a picture of a nailed-on EponaShoe after 8 weeks – notice that the clinches have not open
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