bottom stain

[Peter / Sweden]

Well done Lee

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

Right up my street that one Lee, now try it with Gold Foil for Insocks or soles pre embossed before use, this way the Leather is flat and easier to achieve a perfect uniform depth of letters.

[bkb]

is it a common practice to stitch in a groove with your outsoler, vrs. using the knife attatchment and closing it down? or is this the manufacterd type of stitch? or what?

i like the embosing idia alot, however i use a cold stamp on damp leather. 'cowboy tooling you know'

bkb

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

Hi bkb, the cold wet embossing works better than the hot stamping but our guys over here do not wet the soles now, they used to some years ago but the practice has in the main died out.

Personally if I were to repair my own shoes I would always pre-soak them to make the soles fit the shoe, not the shoe to fit the sole as is the case with hard Leather.

 

As for the stitching in grooves with the closed lip, yes it is a manufacturers process but we used to do this as repairers in the 50/60s before the advent of "I want it now". some repairers of the old school still carry out this method and there are some who use it to great effect when entering national shoe repair competitions. Very difficult to do by hand and all but a few of the rough rounders-chanellers/groovers have gone to the cobblers Graveyard many years ago.

 

As a learner I hated these machines as I was forever undercutting the sole or damaging the welt, it made me very nervous and is probably the reason why I am still uneasy even thinking of these machines.

[kobblers]

I would always pre-soak them to make the soles fit the shoe, not the shoe to fit the sole as is the case with hard Leather.

 

huh

[kalaidascope]

I use golden tan kolorub and fetch the finish up with a neutral yankee wax. Fast no mess and a good looking finish.

[Hugh-Candoit (ENG)]

Yeh but, does it not rub off on your clothes and carpets?

[kalaidascope]

Been using it for a couple of years now Hugh and had no complaints, fingers crossed.

[bkb]

i only paint from heel breest to just beyond half sole joint. we use compostion edge ink, blk or brn. used on leather or rubber bottoms. it contains xylol, so it stays. on leather 'edges' i use wax.

bkb

[Bren]

That electric tool is either really small or the leather sole underneath it is bloody huge!?

 

It's just far away!

 

No scouring

double half moon waist

sole stain on with sponge

brush off immediately on neutral brush (yankee waxed)

By hand with old cotton t-shirt