blog post series by leatherworker Chris Vine
lots of great photos!
Notes
- Spring Line lasts
- last taping
- designing on lasts
- mean forme
- wingtip shoes
- J&FJ Baker insoles
- bike tire for insole blocking
- used a woodworking marking gauge to mark feather for holdfast
- Starko tools
- Zonta Museum leather
- stitching chisels for binding in stitching vise
- broguing
- pinking shears
- toe puff 1.6 mm
- heel stiffener 2.8 mm
- Hirschkleber
- welts:
- 3–3.2 mm thick, 16mm wide
- 1mm groove 5mm from edge
- leather cavity fill in seat and shank, cork in forepart
- 5mm thick leather sole
- hidden channel
- 3.7 mm thick split lifts