Japanese-language YouTube video by Hirokazu Sotobayashi about inseaming
Notes
- trial shoes, so no welts
- tray of wax on bench
- starts at medial heel breast with foot strap over the heel, toe pointing toward body
- magnet on a hook hanging from the top of his apron for holding bristles
- pulls with hand leather on left and shoe awl haft in right
- twisting the awl
- holds the awl blade shaft almost flat to the plantar surface of the insole
- curved needles as bristles
- need good tension to pull upper to insole
- consistent stitch length
- if insole carved right, sewing isn’t hard
- thread about 2 arm spans
- pull through in two passes at start, rather than pulling a little many times
- pull more with right hand, cinch with left
- sometimes puts needle in mouth
- learned to use magnet from older shoemaker
- more efficient
- welts toe holding toe over thigh toward knee, strap across waist
- thread gets shorter, speeding process
- points the awl blade forward, away from body, when pulling taught with haft