YouTube video of Korilla Boots making engineer boots
Notes
- clicking: turns the leather as often as turns the knife
- manual lever press for embossing logo
- punches strap slots by hand
- sews one slash across the box of the tongue tag
- sews the strap to the upper with a triangle pattern of stitching
- applies glue to vamp with a spreader rather than a brush
- backstitches in the lasting allowance
- Ideal Tape to close heel seam of the heel counter cover
- glued on gemming rather than carve an insole
- mix of brads and nails drafting
- bends tacks
- can see in passing that the flat bed sewing machine is a Juki
- pulls a sacrificial shoe cover all the way over the tall tops of the boots
- covers the tops in kitchen plastic wrap
- lockstitches the inseam
- pulls the lock to the outside, then sinks it in
- butt splices the welt ends
- cork paste to fill
- roller on the cork to flatten
- bright metal shank
- lays sole on from heel forward
- big, curved-jaw crimping pliers
- pneumatic sole press for outsole