German-language YouTube video by Benedikt Kuby about shoemaker Josef Huber making shoes for his wife
Notes
- trip to tannery for sole leather
- Josef Götz
- veg-tan pits
- rolling machine
- Altgerber-Verband stamping
- Schuhmacherei Huber
- 5:37 shows his shoemaker’s examination certificate
- foot tracing
- short heel
- sole leather shears look like Kretzer Spirale, but have red handle grips
- last build-up with leather
- feather knife
- pre-piercing
- skiving by hand with what looks like a TINA knife
- lasting
- Swedish-style lasting pliers
- 6-year apprenticeship in Munich
- wounded and discharged from army
- did without master examination
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13:55 thread making
- “schuhsterdraht” (shoemaker’s wire)
- bristle mounting
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16:45 inseaming
- piercing from the outside in through the waist
- whip stitching
- in the middle 1970s, custom shoe business slowed, turned to repair
- 18:45 hammers a leather patch in the cavity through the waist
- doesn’t make money on new shoes, but enjoys it
- leather soles
- shoemakers and tanners reportedly immune to plague, due to tannic acid
- importance of sharp knife
- heel building
- hammers on a lift, then cuts out the center to make a split lift on the shoe
- nails the heel lifts
- breaks glass for a scraper with a file
- alcohol burner for heating edge wax and burnishing iron