YouTube video by CopperyFoil explaining crimping
Notes
- demonstrates with a Chelsea boot
- crimping screw and crimping board
- board has ridge down middle
- two tacks on each side
- removes vamp from board
- DIY screw
- long, threaded eye bolt
- 90-degree angle brackets as clamp jaws
- bolts to hold brackets down, then twist eye of eye bolt to tension
- center tongue and quarter on board
- use finger to push wrinkles down along the blade of the board
- push wrinkles toward edge of board and crimping screws
- uses 3 oz D.B. Gurney lasting tacks
- first pull over toe
- drafts the sides of the vamp