Japanese-language YouTube video by Hirokazu Sotobayashi about toe lasting
Notes
- stage: heel lasted, toe lining lasted, toe puff on
- no foot strap
- switches to heavier Swedish-style lasting pliers to draft at joints, maybe Akimori
- time pressure from glue drying
- turn over and check balance often
- using thin wire brads
- with toe caps and wingtips, especially
- pull only a few tacks at a time
- not relying on one nail, but holding power of several in a row
- hammer the upper halfway through
- set edges, make easier to pull
- trims excess on inside before second half of lasting
- splitting pleats
- hammer feather to sharpen featherline edge
- drops tacks into a round tin as removed
- pull, hold down with left thumb, set tack, drive
- use left to pucker or lay down
- pliers: one Swedish style, two Japanese, one larger for drafting, one narrower for fine work
- tack at about 5 mm intervals through toe, 8 to 10 mm from ball through waist
- turns toe toward body while lasting waist
- shows tacks bent in around heel seat
- trim at “neck” of the rib [???]
- bends all tacks in with French hammer
- rhythmic hammering all around
- once bent over, hammers down again all around
- then hammers toe and sides of upper extensively
- drives more tacks to split pleats in the tip of the toe, then bends those in, too