YouTube video by So Tsuchiya showing upper making
Notes
- large bench for rolling out sides
- cuts with Japanese leather knife, backhand, right to line
- Nippy bell skiver
- hand skiving over glass slicker
- tongues
- bevel down
- sandpapers the edges
- dyes edges with dauber
- also dyes the skived slopes of the tongues
- Seiko cylinder-arm sewing machine
- bastes with paste applied with an ice pop stick
- metal spring clips
- edge folding with hammer
- folds with scratch awl
- then hammers down in a line from edge to edge
- pleats the curves without slashing them
- checks against pattern piece when done
- silver pen to mark allowance lines
- thin sandpaper patch to rough allowances
- 7:26 rocks Japanese leather knife back and forth really fast to slash folding allowance along topline
- really hammers hard on folds
- notch at heel point
- trim allowance all along facing curves and toplines
- trims with Ichikiri
- punches eyelet holes with drive punch over anvil
- hand sews bartacks, burns thread end
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