process of carving or otherwise making lasts
Approaches
Broadly, lastmaking can be done in a few ways:
- additively, by fitting to an existing last and building up to shape
- subtractively, by rough turning or knifing an oversized shape and shaping it down
- digitally, creating the shape on computer and 3D printing or turning on a computer-controlled lathe
Media
- Kirby Allison video on Lobb’s lastmaking process, including fellowing
Entries Linking Here
- 3D Scanning
- 🏭3DShoemaker
- 🎞️Andi’s Workshop Hiking Boots Video
- ⚙️Bandsaw
- 🎞️Bespoke Cowboy Boots with Lee Miller
- 🎞️Bill Bird Bespoke Orthopedic Shoemaking Series
- Chopped Block
- ⚙️CNC Lathe
- 📋Dividing
- 🛠️Drawknife
- 🎞️Eugene Pik Making Cowboy Boots Series
- 📖Footwear Pattern Making and Last Design
- 🎞️Gentleman’s Gazette Amara Hark Weber Series
- Geometric Methods
- 🛠️Heel Pitch Gauge
- 📖Historical Highlights of American Lastmaking and American Shoemaking
- Laminated Wood Block
- 🛠️Last Assessment Jig
- 📖Last Designing & Making Manual
- 📖Last Making and Last Measurements
- 📋Last Shaping
- 🛠️Last Trap
- 📋Last Turning
- 🛠️Last Vise
- 🏫Lastmaker House🇬🇧
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Pedigraph Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Video of Bill Bird
- Master Form
- 📖Measurement of the Human Foot and Last Fitting
- Process Timeline
- 🛠️Rasp
- Rough Turn
- 🎞️Songlim Hiking Boots on Workmanship Channel
- Spoke
- 🛠️Stock Knife
- 🛠️Surform
- 🎞️SWR Handwerkunst Lastmaking Video
- 🛠️Toe Spring Gauge