Well, thanks for that assessment :~D More than I could get out of him today :~)
On the fronts... He rolls the toe like that even when they're new... he brought that up when I mentioned the NB shoes last time, he said "I roll the toe when I make them, I make my own NB shoes" And that's all he really wanted to say about it.
Weeeell, he does and he doesn't. Yeah they've got a bit of a roll, but not near as much as an NB shoe, and he doesn't back the toe up nearly as far as I'd like to see him do, but for a regular farrier I'd say he does a nice job. A lot of farriers, most I guess, really don't want you questioning the way they set a shoe and if you don't like the way they shoe, then about your only option is to find another one that already shoes the way you like. Sad fact, but true.