YouTube video of Dennis Kieback making his first pair of cowboy boots
- Spenlé wood lasts, alpha hinges, rounder toes
- black suede vamps, grey suede tops, natural side beading, white welt stitching
- thanks for help to Lee Miller
- taped last for patterning
- rasps the bottom of the tape on the last over the featherline [why?]
- metal roller for flattening the tape form on pattern paper
- beige lining leather
- big sharpening stone, looks like a water stone
- makes beading
- post-bed sewing machine going very slow
- crimping vamp lining on wood forms
- appears to use a crab-style shank puller to tension over the crimp board
- hand skives the square heel counter
- Dorkopp Adler flat-bed sewing machine
- cuts insoles from bend by hand
- Tellus heel press
- cuts the vamp pattern out of leather after crimping
- uses powder to transfer toe bug and winkle pattern
- sews bug and winkle on post sewing machine
- saddle stitches the tops together by hand
- some black treadle-operator sewing machine in the corner
- stairstep feather
- welted just around the forefoot
- seated-height cobbler’s anvil in background
- leather toe puff
- whip stitches the shank
- [doesn’t show sewing the heel seat]
- Ramie thread
- twists thread between hands, prayer pose, facing the hook
- cuts welt from hide
- nail shank over leather liner
- pegged the shank cover down
- looks like leather forepart filler
- plastic over upper while bottoming
- Singer sewing machine used as thread hook
- lockstitched the outsole with a jerk needle
- pegged the outsole, two staggered rows through waist, one around seat
- fudging wheel for decorative marks to make fishtail between forepart and waist
- split lift cut from shoulder
- nailed heel lift down
- rubber sheet top lift
- Fiebing’s edge paint on heel
- metal peg float
- white gloves while finishing edges
- boards with lining sheets against tops to tree