Description: A blog about life as a bespoke boot maker
I got one of these boots on the last and paused to show it to Flora so she could admire how precisely the design details were in the correct place. She looked at it, and without missing a beat said, “Now do the other one.” Goodness, I’ve trained her well.
I think I’ve posted this pair once already, at this very same stage, but I wasn’t happy with the way they sat on the last the first time. I left them sitting for a while to make sure and they made me grumpy every time I looked at them, so if I’d continued I would have felt grumpy every time I worked on them and then I would have done a bad job. So today I took them off the lasts, re-wet them, and lasted them again. My inner demons have quieted now and it appears I will be allowed to continue without being i
I spent almost all day on the computer and didn’t get back to my workbench until 4pm. At that point it’s easy to give up but I persevered, and cut and skived all the sunflowers.