YouTube video of Dennis Kieback making tall brown lace-up boots
Insoles
- glasses
- tacks to last
- trims with straight knife
Heel Counter
- from belly
- skive with shoe knife, no block
- soaks in water
Insole Prep
- wraps to last with bike tire
- trim with straight box knife
Channeling
- up from bottom in reverse grip
- about 3mm in
- wet with water
- spread the cut with hard pressure
- straight Japanese-style skiving knife for channel
- short, angled strokes overlapping
- scrape out with glass
Heel Counter Installation
- fat side inward to ward heel
- tack in place
- spits tacks
Welt
- from sole leather?
- strap cutter
- cuts very wide strap
- groove cutter to start
- then undercut 45 degrees with knife
- then skive to edge
- glasses top side away
Welting
- storm
- leather hand wrap
- curved awl
- wraps around awl handle