YouTube video of Dennis Kieback making red pebble-grain boots
Insole Making
- scrapes out waist with glass
- strange marking tool for channel
- 270 degrees
- first cut deeper in, maybe 4-5mm
- spread with blunt point
- feather with Japanese skiving knife
- glasses the feather
- skips to channel glassing
- pretty narrow waist!
- seems to be just a channel, without any feather
- going to storm welt, so stitches will be converted
Handwelting
- saddle?
Bottoming
- rivets shank into leather fill from heel up to ball
- cork from ball to toes (sheet)
- hammers then rasps cork
- wood pegs in waist, too
Outseaming
- leather scrap over vamp where poking
- handmade thread
- lockstitch