Lisa Sorrell Crimping Vamps Video

Notes

soaked vamps in water about half an hour
let drip dry
layered in paper
baby powder on both sides
- crimps vamps and liners together
- helps slide against each other
- make sure talc, not cornstarch
crimp break for half an hour
- don’t need one, but makes life easier
- can go direct to crimp board
crimps at a bench
bench has third hand bar on a post to hold the crimp board in place
HDPE crimp board looks like one of Dick Anderson’s
vamp corner right under screw path
crimp screw
pull snug, not taking all slack out
uses #5 lasting tacks
leather wrong side out, liner right side to board
crimping pliers
specific order
drives tacks all the way in
tightens screw after three nails in lasting allowance by toe
three more nails from ball back through waist
hold with pliers, set a nail on each side of it
smooth out wrinkles over cone by hammering with lasting pliers
work wrinkles out in the direction of the wrinkle, not across them
final screw tightening, “pretty snug”
same track sequence even without crimp break
7:40 diagram of tack order
crim tack order diagram