YouTube video by Lu_Shoemaker showing the making of moc-toe, fully lined, 360-degree welted, wedge-soled work boots
Notes
- sharpens a Chinese-style shoemaker knife on an electric rotating grindstone
- French binding along the topline
- hammers heel counter covers into the hollow depression of a concave wood block
- lasts only with small, narrow-beaked lasting pliers
- tacks the back height for lasting through stitch holes in the backstrap
- fabric toe puff
- sharpens a jerk needle with abrasive paste on a length of string
- curved jerk needle for inseaming
- outseams to a leather midsole with a jerk needle
- wedge soles
- air-driven, rotary brush to clean the welt shelf