Like many other farriers, Gary Werner of Smithtown, N.Y., has a varied clientele.

With readers wanting to learn more about all the hoof-care products and supplies on the market, this April edition again focuses exclusively on providing you with plenty of product education.

There is something special about making and using your own tools. That feeling may be lost a little for well-known tool makers such as Texas farrier Jim Poor and New Mexico shoer Jim Keith, but making a tool that I’ll use still gives me that tingly feeling.

Facing steel price increases as high as 50 percent because of growing worldwide demand for steel, companies are being forced to pass increased shoe and farrier tool manufacturing costs along to customers.