YouTube video of White’s Boots making work boots using its distinctive rolled-welt stitchdown construction
Construction
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4:25 channeling the insole
- handcrank insole carving machine
- no feather
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7:21 welting
- seated
- lasting jack
- fingers wrapped in tape for pulling, fingertips bare
- toe toward the body
- curved awl
- wire bristles
- saddle stitching
- piercing from the inside out, no pre-piercing
- turns the toe away from the body once reaches the tip
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11:00 trimming the vamp lining
- Surform to finishi trimming the lining and rough the bottom of the turned-out upper
- 12:10 cementing the slipsole [right name?]
- 16:02 forming [wiping?] the welt
- 16:12 Rapid stitching
- 16:32 trimming the welt back to the first outseam stitchline with an edge beveler
- 16:36 second Rapid stitchline
- 16:52 machine heel stack nailing