With design team Hudson & Emma, Tucker was in school

Bruce White A.K.A. Horseshoe Guy,has been a service manager, car builder and a welder /fabricator for over 25 years.  Well, you may (or may not) wonder, how a person with such a strong automotive background became the “Horseshoe Guy”.

Well here goes.  In the summer of ’93, While living in the picturesque town of Evergreen, CO. with my beautiful wife Linda, I had scheduled an after work welding repair for a friend (we’ll call him Jeff) because that’s what his name is.

Jeff is a Farrier, as well as a rodeo clown and needed repairs on his work truck.  When he and a case of cold beverages (that came in a can,) arrived at the White compound, he found nobody home.

I had been delayed at my street rod shop day job in Denver.
While the Farrier waited, his patience and the beverages slowly evaporated. Upon the departure of the beverages, the disgruntled Jeff ,decided to do the same but not before emptying out the 3 or 4 months worth of used horseshoes as well as many old cans that had long been drained of their contents (real men don’t litter!)From the back of his truck.

He proceeded to empty all of these items directly in front of my barn / shop doors so as not to be missed upon my arrival.  When returning their was no missing the giant pile of horseshoes with the decorative sprinkling of the cans that once held that dear departed cold beverage or the unspoken message of disappointment on the Farrier’s behalf. I moved the pile of shoes to one side but soon had to move them again.  Finally my beautiful and understanding wife Linda said “either dig a hole and bury those things or do something with them”.

Well being one who listens to everything my wife tells me to do, I started to mess around with some shoes on my welding bench and found that they made great hooks for holding everything from extension cords, ladders,metal stock and then he made my first coat rack  by welding 4 of his useful hooks together.  When friends came over and saw that first coat rack,they wanted to know “where I had bought it”?.

Well, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but I soon figured out that these racks would make great gifts. and as long as I fixed Jeff’s truck (you do remember Jeff right?)
I would have a pretty good supply of horseshoes.

Well Tucker (1st born son) came along and it was decided that the White family would return to their roots in New England. The horseshoe stuff took a back seat to stuff like earning a living and before we knew it, the twins came along (Hudson & Emma).Well being an “aggie “ at heart,I would bring the kids around to local barns like  Hilltop Equestrian center, Winning ways Stables and UNH. On one of those trips, I spotted a bucket of old shoes and asked “what they did with the old shoes”? The reply was “we throw them out”  Well that got the old cobwebs moving.Before I knew it, I was back to making coat racks.And the rest is on going history. As long as people keep coming up with new and more interesting ways to recycle old horse shoes as well as want not so rustic things from new ones, Horseshoe Guy will go on.
Oh by the way “Horseshoe Guy” comes from all the places the kids and I collect buckets of shoes. Most people don’t know my name so they just say “hey Horseshoe Guy”, how’s it going? I don’t know if my life will be made into a movie but, If Brad Pitt wants to gain 100 pounds and go bald, he’s got the part. Also much love and a big thanks to all the hard working men and women farriers who allow me to collect the shoes,tools and rasps.Without them,their advise and inspiration I’d have to get a real job and miss being with my wife & kids and probably have another stroke.

Peace and good luck to all, Bruce White Horseshoe Guy