YouTube video of JK Boots making their OT work boot
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Wet Pre-Lasting
- pressurized spray bottle with water
- darted heel counter
- lasting
- Whitcher-style lasting pliers for the first draft at the toe
- DB Gurney lasting tacks
- switches to bulldogs left hand and French hammer in right lasting the heel
- spitting tacks
- pulls the heel counter first, but then pulls the upper and lasts both with one tack at one time
- relatively thick pleats around the heel
- trims the upper excess with a lip knife through the waist and heel
- trims the upper excess with shears around the forepart
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lasts the vamp lining onto contact cement
- Whitcher-style lasting pliers again
- trims with lip knife
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vamp lasting
- yellowish paste over lining and under vamp
- snaps down immediately, without setting aside to dry
- Whitcher-style lasting pliers
- sets two tacks behind the joints first
- then to the tip of the toe
- tacks from the tip of the toe back to the joint on one side, then the other
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turning out forepart
- tack puller
- rougher on the turned-out part of the vamp
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shanking and bottom filling
- contact cement
- leather shank
- counters the side with a lip knife
- leather lineman shank, skived at the front, in lieu of full midsole
- clinch nails the shank through the insole
- rubber midsoles
- delasts, checks the footbed, relasts
- uses lasting jack strap to bond the midsole initially, then pounds with a ball-peen hammer
- 5-in-1 welt roller to bond upper and lineman shank to midsole
- 5-in-1 to trim
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rapid stitching
- green Rapid E
- sews around the waist and heel seat
- outsole
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rapid stitching
- wets bottom of outsole before stitching
- gold Rapid E
- two rows
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heel fasteninig
- screws through nail holes of heel part of unit sole
- delasts
- line finisher