Farrier's apron pattern

Nope, never have, but now I'm intrigued as to what you're doing. My farrier just wears the split leather thigh-guard thing and hangs his tools behind himself while he's working. Is that what you're looking to make?

-Charlotte

Yeah, a modified version.

I play flyball with my dogs (see:

)My JRT runs 4th in the lineup. I kneel next to the lane with him on my lap while we wait, and he boings up and down on my legs. Even through heavy Levis, by the end of a tournament weekend he's leaving scratches and these bruises that look like somebody poked me repeatedly with a phillips-head screw driver. You wouldn't think a 15 pound dog could do so much damage, but like my husband commented, it's all about the PSI. I had thought about reinforcing a pair of pants, but after watching the farrier at the stable working on a friend's horse I thought something like the apron he wore might work even better. It actually looked like a pair of short chaps. It could be buckled, tied or velcro'ed over the top of normal pants and removed after each race - cooler that way - and left off entirely for when I'm running my border collie (for him I wear soccer shin guards due to the need to play human crash barrier in order to catch him at the end of his run).

I'd pick up a used farrier's apron off of e-bay, but it really doesn't need to be quite so thick and stiff for dog racing. I have to be able to kneel, squat and crouch easily. I could probably just draft my own pattern, but I'm kind of lazy about stuff like that, and if there was a commercial pattern already available, I'd rather go that route.

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It sounds to me like what you need is the top part of the body armor that motocyclists and those downhill mountain bikers wear! That would be a lot more flexible than a farrier's apron, and more would provide more impact relief!

If what you really want is a farrier's apron (and it might be just be, I dunno!) I'm sure that he or another would let you trace it off. Farriers are nice that way. You could also try "wreck Eq", otherwise known as rec.equitation, where there is a local called Tom Stowall who's a well known farrier. He might point you in the right direction.

Good luck!

-Charlotte

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It occurred to me later that I meant to say rec.equestrian. I just moved to France and my brain is filled with "word soup". I hope to get these languages straightened out at some point and properly filed!

Here's Tom's webpage:

was right helpful to me when my mare was sufferin' from low-slungheels.

-Charlotte