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Thursday, November 21, 2013

3D printed horse shoes

If you're looking for a pair of beautifully made and well-fitted English riding boots, then you need not look further than Dogwood London.

However, although we do a range of products for equines as well as riders, such as horse rugs, bridles, and tacks, we can't claim to sell horse shoes – and certainly not the most state-of-the-art types.

There's a lot of talk about 3D printing at the moment, with some of its most exciting uses being to create replacement limbs and organs for injured people. There are many other ways in which this tech has been employed though, and one is to make horse shoes.

Australian scientists have made four titanium shoes for a race horse which has been nicknamed Titanium Prints. The animal, which resides in Melbourne, had its hooves scanned by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and then the special shoes were designed to fit from the scan.

Usually made from aluminium, horse shoes can be quite heavy – but these titanium ones are much lighter, and could help the equine race ahead of competitors.

Nevertheless, despite these shoes being lighter, they are more expensive, as is usually the case with products leading the way in their field (no pun intended).

Still, perhaps horse owners will overlook the price and purchase some titanium shoes for their animal, at the very least to see what all the fuss is about. It only requires a few people to take the first step (again no pun intended) and buy an innovative product to make it the next big thing.

Photo © Thowra_uk via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence

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