Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA-based custom cowboy boot maker, teacher, YouTuber, and owner of Sorrell Notions and Findings
first boot job topstitcher for Jay Griffith
paid to apprentice under R.A. Dorwart for two months, stayed a year and a half afterward
List of Lisa’s YouTube Videos
As of June, 2025, for quick Ctrl+F searching:
- Shank Pullers
- Using a Last Puller
- Choosing a Last
- Shoemaking Tools: Boot Trees
- Shoemaking Tools: Five in One
- Shoemaking Tools Tina Channel, Scratch compass, inseam awl
- Shoemaking Tools: Welt
- Crimp Screws
- Shoemaking Tools: Crimp Break
- It’s a Boot Life
- It’s a Boot Life: applying beading
- It’s a Boot Life: making beading
- Bonus video: Lisa skiving
- It’s a Boot Life: making beading
- It’s a Boot Life: Lisa’s presentation in England
- It’s a Boot Life: cowboy boot counters
- It’s a Boot Life: putting together a one-piece boot top
- It’s a Boot Life: using Aquilim 315 with rubber
- It’s a Boot Life: final speed boot making
- It’s a Boot Life: speed boot making, part three
- Sewing: ASMR
- Skiving Leather: ASMR
- It’s a Boot Life: Speed Boot Making Part Two/awl and haft instructions
- It’s a Boot Life: speed boot making, part one
- It’s a Boot Life: attaching a bristle, method 2
- It’s a Boot Life: hand stitching soles
- It’s a Boot Life: origami boot
- It’s a Boot Life: how to create a cowboy boot top pattern
- It’s a Boot Life: creating an inlaid boot top
- It’s a Boot Life: last hinges and cones
- It’s a Boot Life: threading the curved needle
- It’s a Boot Life: Penland School of Craft
- It’s a Boot Life: advanced boot pulls
- It’s a Boot Life: making a watchband
- It’s a Boot Life: Paige Marie Sorrell
- It’s a Boot Life: heat-erasable pens
- It’s a Boot Life: tying down the points and pivoting on the needle
- It’s a Boot Life: how a pegging awl works
- It’s a Boot Life: the short heel measurement
- It’s a Boot Life: relasting and rewelting boots
- It’s a Boot Life: finishing a cowboy boot sole
- It’s a Boot Life: reviving dried-out glue
- It’s a Boot Life: attaching the counter
- It’s a Boot Life: fitting a last
- It’s a Boot Life: selecting the last width
- It’s a Boot Life: choosing a last
- It’s a Boot Life: removing metal heel plate from a last
- It’s a Boot Life: Lisa visits Japan, Germany, and Sweden
- It’s a Boot Life: creating a tapered thread for inseaming
- It’s a Boot Life: lasting a cowboy boot
- It’s a Boot Life: cutting inlay efficiently
- It’s a Boot Life: lacing the shank area
- It’s a Boot Life: welting around the toe
- It’s a Boot Life: trimming side seams
- It’s a Boot Life: crimping vamps
- It’s a Boot Life: Lisa’s cowboy boot making class
- It’s a Boot Life: toe bug and wrinkles
- It’s a Boot Life: trimming an insole
- Pegging a Cowboy Boot Sole
- It’s a Boot Life: Lisa and Dale visit England
- It’s a Boot Life: water-based glue
- It’s a Boot Life: channeling an insole
- It’s a Boot Life: season finale
- It’s a Boot Life: stitching curves
- It’s a Boot Life: creating a boot top pattern
- It’s a Boot Life: sharpening a knife
- It’s a Boot Life: boot making student
- It’s a Boot Life: sweeping the studio
- It’s a Boot Life: why skiving is important
- It’s a Boot Life: leveling heels
- It’s a Boot Life: making a waxed end
- It’s a Boot Life: crimping tools demonstration
- It’s a Boot Life: cutting vamps out of alligator
- It’s a Boot Life: skiving techniques
- It’s a Boot Life: boot making students
- It’s a Boot Life: wiping in the toe
- It’s a Boot Life: timing a sewing machine
- It’s a Boot Life: changing the toe shape on a last
- It’s a Boot Life: positioning a wingtip
- It’s a Boot Life: spraying water-based glue
- It’s a Boot Life: reinforcing a vamp for crimping
- It’s a Boot Life: shank cover
- It’s a Boot Life: trimming an outsole
- Dyeing Leather That’s Not Struck Through
- It’s a Boot Life: Boot and Saddlemakers Roundup
- It’s a Boot Life: creating patterns for inlay and overlay
- It’s a Boot Life: kangaroo leather
- Mondays with Lisa Sorrell: cutting the heel breast
- Mondays with Lisa Sorrell: sharpening a knife
- Mondays with Lisa Sorrell: demonstrating the crimp break
- Mondays with Lisa Sorrell: creating a leather pillow
- Mondays with Lisa Sorrell: creating a leather pillow
- 24: Removing a Last
- 23: Finisher
- 22: Straight and Curved Needle Machines
- 21: Post Machine
- 20: Flatbed sewing machines
- 19: Old Tools
- 18: Boot Makers and Mentors
- 17: Stitching curves
- 16: Evolution of Design
- 15: Sheridan Leather Class
- 14: Putting in the steel shank
- 13: Making Side Welt
- 12: Curved Needle
- 11: Lasting and wiping in the toe
- 10: Putting an insole on a last
- 9: Substitute for Rubber Cement
- 8: International Shoemaker’s Days, Germany
- 7: Guest Appearance by Paige Sorrell
- 6: Shaping a Steel Shank
- 5: Skiving Knives and Skiving
- 4: Making a Waxed End
- 3: What is a Bespoke Cowboy Boot?
- 2: Stitching a Boot Top
- Episode 1: In the Studio with Lisa Sorrell
- Lisa Sorrell Straight Needle Video
- Using a pedigraph or Harris mat
- Bill Bird, lastmaker
- Measuring the foot
- Making inlaid twisted roses with leather
Entries Linking Here
- American Shoe Peg Sizing
- American Straight Needle Stitcher
- 📖The Art of Leather Inlay and Overlay🇺🇸
- 📖Basic Patterns for Cowboy Boots🇺🇸
- 🏭D.B. Gurney🇺🇸
- 🎞️Dyeing Leather That’s Not Struck Through
- 🏭George Barnsley & Sons🇬🇧
- 📖How to Make Cowboy Boots🇺🇸
- 🎞️It’s a Boot Life Hand Stitching Soles
- 🎞️It’s a Boot Life Welting Around the Toe
- 🎞️It’s a Boot Life: Cowboy Boot Counters
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Applying Beading
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Choosing a Last Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Making a Waxed End Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Making Beading
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Lisa Sorrell Museum Tool Display Post
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Pedigraph Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Pegging Awl Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Shank Pullers Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Shoemaking Tools Crimp Break
- 🛠️Lisa Sorrell Skiving Knives
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Straight Needle Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Video of Bill Bird
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Video on Welt
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Waxed End Video
- 🎞️Lisa Sorrell Wiping in the Toe Video
- 🎞️Mondays with Lisa Sorrell Sharpening Video
- 🎞️Pegging a Cowboy Boot Sole
- 🎞️Shoemaking Tools: Five in One
- 🏭Sorrell Notions and Findings🇺🇸
- 🎞️Welting a Z Boot