YouTube video by HD Russell showing crimping of a vamp for a Chelsea boot
Note
Vamp
- firm Horween Whiskey Predator leather
- wets the inside vamp first
- block seems to be made of a laminated-slat cutting board
- uses tacks only, no screw
- thoroughly saturates with spray bottle
- lots of massaging by hand
- hammers over the bend with the haft of a hammer
- no tacks in the bell
- focus on the instep
- beats and rubs over the instep repeatedly
Lining
- lining easier, since softer
- flesh side out
- starts by tacking at top of bell
- story about uncle straightening bent nails for three years when a child
- explains nails through bell: since thin and flexible, won’t stay up without them