YouTube video by Ken Hishinuma showing snippets of making his World Championships of Shoemaking 2024 winning shoe
Notes
- clicks with a snap-off-blade style utility knife, holding his pinkie out straight and flat against the material
- skin stitches the apron using a very thin curved awl
- pre-lasts the lining separately
- adds chain loops to machine-sewed stitch lines by hand, using curved needles
- dramatically sculpts the shank part of the insole
- lasts the upper bottom piece over the insole
- lasts the waist of the upper all the way in to the main axis on the bottom
- big white side linings, under the toe puff
- lays a line of string over the toe puff to emphasize the ridge, cording-style
- saddle stitches the heel seal
- cuts away a strip of the upper through the waist to make a gap over the shank
- cuts the lip to cover the hidden channel of the outsole very slowly
- the outsole covers only the forepart of the shoe
- hammers the outsole on through a scrap of leather
- the ends of the welt nearly touch at the shank
- uses three wood pegs to fix the very back of the outsole at the shank
- glues on a horseshoe-shaped rand and one or two lifts before wood pegging
- builds a horseshoe heel stack by laminating several lifts, then pegging them together off the shoe
- fixes the block to the shoe with very long nails
- tons of brass nails in the heel
- hacksaw and coping saw to cut toe tap from sheet