YouTube video by Lisa Sorrell discussing heel counters for cowboy boots
Notes
- uses sole bend
- Lisa different: different sizes
- always know how much excess have
Skiving
- uses 5-in-1 to skive top and bottom
- don’t run corners through 5-in-1
- sides: turn sideways, set the corner past the machine, then skive half-circle
- even out the skiving on line finisher
Sanding
- goals:
- bottom should be flexible enough to last
- top thin enough that sewing machine goes through it
- even the edges, but will be trimmed later
- holds pair of counters outside to outside under the sander
- sanding parallel with skived edges, not perpendicular
- look to see how thin the edge is
- stop and feel edges now and then
- “see and look with your fingers as much as your eyes”
- if you need it to bend, try to bend it
- wide skive at bottom
- regular flat skive on sides
- didn’t widen skive at top, but made it thinner
- really light sanding on grain side to rough up surface a bit so accepts water during lasting and sweat during wear