The Law Family Forge, with the help of our children, is currently producing knives, spurs, metal roses, door handles, hinges, and miscellaneous hardware, along with trimming and hot-shoeing horses.
General descriptions and pictures of our forged products are listed below. Forged hardware has a wire-brush finish and clear coat to resist rust. Check out our online store for items currently in stock. Our inventoried store items are also listed on E-bay and can sell at any time. New orders on larger items, not in stock, require a non-refundable deposit before they are put into production. Wait times may vary on new orders not in stock and prices may be subject to change due to economic conditions. If you would like us to custom forge a similar item, not currently available on our website, contact us for more information at (208) 935-7740.
Kit is an American Farriers Association Certified Farrier with 25 years of experience and has trimmed and shod horses of all breeds, sizes, and performance backgrounds. With the exception of zebras, bulls, alpacas, llamas, goats, and active racetrack horses, he has worked on horses, mules, hennys, jennys, jacks, cows, steers, and sheep. Kit has worked with numerous veterinarians over the years to diagnose and treat many types of lameness problems and gait faults in horses. He has the expertise to forge a wide range of handmade regular or therapeutic horseshoes upon request.
You may schedule an appointment and bring your livestock to our shop, or we are available to come right to your door and provide service with our mobile horseshoeing truck.
Forged Items For Sale
Thumb-latch Norfolk Door Handle - This hand-forged decorative front door handle comes complete with two extra fancy bolts and interior latch assembly which utilizes an exterior strike plate and bolt on the reverse side of the door. By the early 1800s the steel industry had progressed to a point that flat steel plate became readily available and the two piece thumb-latch Norfolk style was created alongside the earlier one-piece forged Suffolk handle.
Post Plates - These T-shaped post plates are cut out and engraved with hot cut tools Kit built out of cut up pieces of auto coil springs forged and welded to a bar stock handle. He has further refined the design of these tools to help improve his engraving technique. The plates are cut out of ¼-inch x 3-inch flat steel and predrilled to accept a T-40 lag screw. The post plates may be paired and bolted together with extra fancy headed bolts four to eight inches in length. Plate measures 12 inches wide x 19 inches tall. Prices start at $175.00
Barn Door Pintle Hinges: Here is a set of barn door pintle hinges made to fit doors measuring 48-inches wide. The hinges are forged by hand from 1/4 inch by 4-inch flat steel using a 1¾-pound hammer as well as an 8-pound sledge hammer wielded by a striker for the heaviest part of the forging process. The ends are cut out with our hot-cut and forged four and three quarter inches wide before being recut with a decorative design and carefully hand-filed edge finished. The hinges taper from four inches wide to one inch near the end. The thickness varies from 1/8 inch up to 3/8ths of an inch. Six, 7/16-inch diameter holes are drilled on each hinge eight inches apart to accept our hand made nuts and bolts which are 2 3/4 inches long included in the price. Each hinge plate is punched and counter sunk to accept four T-40 timber lag screws, not included. All pieces are coated with semi-gloss clear coat to resist rust. These may be purchased direct from our store page.
Forged 3 inches long, 7/16-inch regular head bolt complete with hand-filed finished square nut and washer. May be ordered direct from our store page.
Horsehead Hoof Picks
Kit takes a worn out horseshoe, splits it in half, forges a pick-end for cleaning out horse hooves, while the opposite end is embossed with a horse head.
Silver Inlaid Hoof Pick
Forged, filed, and silver inlaid on the front side from ¼-inch x 1-inch steel. The reverse side has decorative iron chasing.
Knives - Kit forges full tang hunting knifes and forged hidden tang bowie knives from spent horseshoeing rasps and files. They come complete with a leather case. The full tang knives have a tapered tang for better balance. Entry level knives may be customized with nickel, silver or brass guards, decorative file work, and exhibition or presentation grade handles in walnut, iron wood, etc. Prices start at $650.00. The bowie knife pictured may be purchased direct from our store page.
Forged 3-inches long, 7/16-inch fancy head bolt, hand filed, complete with hand- filed square nut, and washer. May be ordered direct from our store page.
Boone Style Spurs - One Piece, Hand Forged and Filed
Suffolk Door Handle
General Forrest Spear-Point Knife
Selway Skinner Knife
General Morgan Spear Point Knife
Forged 3-inch long 7/16-inch extra fancy head, hand-filed, and engraved bolt, complete with hand-filed square nut, and washer. May be ordered direct from our store page.
Lady Boone Style Spurs - Our spurs are forged from a single piece of metal, such as a railroad spike, for smaller lady and youth spurs. We use 5/8-inch x 5/8-inch or ¾-inch x ¾-inch square stock for our larger spurs. The rowels are cut out by hand from forged flat spring steel 3/16-inch to 5/16-inch diameter and hand filed for a superior look. Kit has started to inlay and engrave silver using flattened silver eagles, or silver maple leaves, and graver tools and chisels made from spent chainsaw files. These Lady Boone Style Spurs may be purchased direct from our store page. Spur straps may be purchased separately.
General Van Dorn Spear Point Knife
General Wheeler Spear Point Knife