5. The head of the toe-calk must not rest on the shoe; a space of one-sixteenth of an inch should intervene.
While a shoer of average mechanical ability can make a faultless peg toe-calk, it is not profitable to do so while good machine-made calks are to be had very cheap.
Fig. 171.
Chisel toe-calk. (Doring.) No. 1
from the firm of Branscheid &
Philippi, of Remscheid.
Fig. 172.
Shovel toe-calk.
Fig. 173.