YouTube video by Kustom Kraft showing the making of derby boots
Notes
- uses glass to rasp insole to the featherline
- incises the feather with a perpendicular blade of some kind
- cuts from side of veg tan
- dyes a big cut piece with a wool dauber
- burnishes the edges
-
strap cutter for very wide welts
- cuts a groove all the way down near one edge, then slices off through the groove to make a long bevels
- heel lasting: bends each tack in after setting
- sews the heel seat from piercing outside inward
- bent-wire bristles for inseam thread
- welts piercing from inside out
- pegs the same welt strip around the heel seat
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thread making
- long lengths on a hook
- rolling between hands
- burnishes with scratch awl
- hangs thread from gutters in the sun
- shows breaking glass for scrapers
- hidden channel just in waist, otherwise half soles
- outseams by hand
- twists the awl
- jerk needle
- half soles are already attached
- burnishes edges with cloth and handle of wood slicker
- makes a wood presentation box