YouTube video of Yanwooden Shoemaker resoling and reheeling a pair of White’s boots with Vibram 430 soles and heels
Notes
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12:39 outseaming
- by hand
- curved jerk needle
- lockstitch
- hitting the existing holes in the stitchdown vamp
- two rows
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14:26 reheeling
- builds the stack off the boot, on top of the toplift
- shapes the stack off the boot
- uses the peen of a French hammer to push the rand to the heel stack
- fixes the stack to the boot by driving nails through the washer holes
- sets all the nails in their holes, then uses an air gun to drive them
- also nails with the air gun through the inside into the heel stack