Horse shoe art??

[wireburner]

i am wanting to start making horse shoe art stuff to give away and sell ,like coat hangers and mail box toppers , iwas wanting to know how much a single horse shoe coasted , looked at tsc and belive it was 2.98 a shoe if you have some thoughts or designs or plans please shoe me Thanks Chris

[weld_13]

If i were you check at the local stables and horse places they will have alot of old ones that they will probly sell cheap or give away if you explain what your doing and maybe make some stuff for them. The horse place i rode at after we sold our horse had a ton of em. Also just and idea ive heard of ideas for usin em for picture frames. And yes another fyi if you make something make shure you have the horseshoe or shoes pointing up cause theres a saying that when you keep them open end up they ketch all the good dreams. I dont know how buisness would be if they were down then all there would be was bad luckhaha

[wireburner]

i got a bunch of desigsns now , i want to sell them cheap if the shoe costs me $3 and it only has one shoe in it I`ll charge $5

[weld_13]

Yeh it sounds like a plan. If you dont mind i think im gonna steal your idea since techinically i heard of the idea before from a non welder and i just forgot. So how do you plan on sellin em? Ebay, Classified ads, Craigslist? I would ask around on the hobart board hotfoot probly has some good ideas for you

[wireburner]

I want to sell them locally and maybe e-bay and just by word maybe newspaper

[weld_13]

Well i hope it works out for ya.

[mudsplasher]

Hope you ain't too disappointed when you don't sell many around our area. There are lots of those floating around Scott and Morgan counties. I have a brother in law that sells horse shoe gate latches for around $5.00 and that includes two horse shoes. His tack racks are just as cheap.

[weld_13]

Yeh but where do you live?

[mudsplasher]

I live in Crossville, just a little ways from Wartburg, but I am from Robbins, which is due north.

My brother in law can sell his cheap because he has an actual business and pays wholesale for supplies.

[wireburner]

i going to try and sell them to family and freinds to the family