{"id":888,"date":"2014-02-16T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2014-02-16T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T19:45:53","slug":"farrier-tom-willoughbys-new-family-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/farrier-tom-willoughbys-new-family-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrier Tom Willoughby&#8217;s New Family of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_889\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-889\" alt=\"The whole family wondering what the excitement is all about.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-1-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole family wondering what the excitement is all about.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I attended the winter clinic held at Anvil Brand Shoe Co in Lexington, Illinois this February. The clinicians for the weekend were farrier Cody Gregory and\u00a0blacksmith Brian Brazeal. They put on an excellent clinic but it was hard not to be just as excited and perhaps even more awed by Tom Willoughby&#8217;s &#8220;Vulture Family&#8221;. Tom has been shoeing horses, creating music and\u00a0phenomenal carvings and blacksmithing for years. He was gracious enough to give us a bit of detail on how he came to this idea. I have that video clip explanation on the <a title=\"Willoughby's Vulture Family\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ImOX5tFHfv8\" target=\"_blank\">FPD YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_894\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-8.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-894\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-894\" alt=\"The baby getting a good feel for the anvil face. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-8-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-8-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The baby getting a good feel for the anvil face. Probably already wondering who&#8217;s been\u00a0abusing this anvil.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You should do whatever it takes to check out <a title=\"Tom Willoughby facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tom.willoughby.9?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Tom&#8217;s Facebook <\/a>to see much more of his exceptional talent. We&#8217;ll try to get our hands on more items to share with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_890\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-7.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-890\" alt=\"Big Daddy sitting on the anvil. Tom made the pieces to be able to set and keep an eye on his work.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-7-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-7-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Willoughby_Vultures-7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Daddy sitting on the anvil. Tom made the pieces to be able to set them up in strategic locations to keep an eye on his work.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I attended the winter clinic held at Anvil Brand Shoe Co in Lexington, Illinois this February. The clinicians for the weekend were farrier Cody Gregory and\u00a0blacksmith Brian Brazeal. They put on an excellent clinic but it was hard not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/farrier-tom-willoughbys-new-family-of-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,7,12],"tags":[83,28,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}