late Redmond, Washington, USA-based cowboy boot bootmaker and shoemaker, teacher, active guild participant, author, and digitizer of several reference works
active poster to Styleforum and The Crispin Colloquy
- https://shoegazing.com/2023/02/03/reflection-r-i-p-d-w-frommer/
- https://ofn.uoregon.edu/profile/dw-frommer-ii
- https://www.theworldofshoes.com/brands/d-w-frommer-ii/
Forum Posts
Fitting
- starts with outline of weight-bearing foot
- tentatively mark medial and lateral balls on tracing
- stick length with a measuring stick
- weight-bearing footprints
- pedograph best
- shows the width of the heelseat
- shows the width of the treadline
- very much like insole shape / bottom paper
- exception: “corner” at back of featherline not found on the foot
- show plantar discrepancies
- mark absolute medial and lateral balls
- space between first and second metatarsal heads with stylus between toes
- line of muscular action
- redundancy for cross-checking
- measured girths without weight
- short heel
- long heel
- middle cuneiform
- high instep
- low instep
- waist
- ball/joint
- pulls tape snug, doesn’t add or subtract from measures
- Sabbage Sectionizer
- heel to ball the most critical
- put length of masking tape over instep while measuring, marked it
- measures girths with string held to a ruler
Lastmaking
- starts from stock lasts
- tries to minimize degree in last toward zero
- didn’t like twisted lasts
- used “SAS hinge” to avoid stress on topline and backseam
- advocated inside cones
- short heel of last must match short heel of foot
- but no clear measurement point for short heel on lasts
