Imagine the joy of walking in shoes that you have made, and the satisfaction of making your first pair.With over 380 colour photographs and lots of straight forward explanations I show you how to make hand-welted shoes, the kind of superior handmade shoes that bespoke shoemakers from around the world still make today.This book provides you with step by step instructions to make your first pair of handmade shoes without wasting hours and hours going up blind alleys trying to find the necessary information, or having to buy loads of expensive tools, it really is a practical guide to introduce you to the fascinating craft of shoemaking, and to help you make shoes to be proud of. About Harry: For many years I have been running a small leather workshop called Bucklehurst Ltd, and I have published lots of craft related videos on YouTube as Harry Rogers with over 25 million views. I have had so many questions about my shoe making exploits, that I decided to write this book to help people on their shoemaking journey.This is a pretty detailed book comprising 270 pages with advice on what tools to get, and how to select leather and shoe lasts, how to make shoe patterns that will work, and how to assemble your shoes. You will learn the basics of making proper shoes using the traditional techniques that have been used for many many years to make high end shoes, including hand stitched welts to secure your shoe uppers to the sole components, and how to make and use traditional wooden pegs to secure heels. I go through everything you need to know to make the shoes on the book cover, and here is a list of the chapters:CHAPTER 1. TOOLS AND CONSUMABLES, WHAT DO YOU NEED?CHAPTER 2. HOW TO SHARPEN LEATHER TOOLSCHAPTER 3. SELECTING LEATHER FOR YOUR SHOESCHAPTER 4. MEASURING YOUR FEETCHAPTER 5. PROPERTIES OF SHOE LASTS AND HOW TO SELECT THE CORRECT PAIRCHAPTER 6. HOW TO MAKE YOUR SHOE PATTERNS, QUICK AND EASY APPROACH, Example With An Oxford Shoe CHAPTER 7. HOW TO MAKE YOUR SHOE PATTERNS, THE IN-DEPTH APPROACH, Example With A Derby Shoe CHAPTER 8. CUTTING OUT YOUR SHOE UPPERSCHAPTER 9. TURNING SHOE QUARTER SEAMS FOR A TIDY TOP LINECHAPTER 10. SEWING THE SHOE UPPERS, General Principles And Sewing Up The Derby DesignCHAPTER 11. GIMPING AND BROGUINGCHAPTER 12. SEWING UPPERS, ADDITIONAL NOTES ON OXFORD UPPERSCHAPTER 13. CUTTING THE INSOLECHAPTER 14. MAKING TOE PUFFS AND HEEL COUNTERSCHAPTER 15. LASTING PROCESS, LASTING THE LININGCHAPTER-16. LASTING CONTINUED, LASTING THE UPPERSCHAPTER-17. MAKING AND SEWING THE WELTSCHAPTER 18. MAKING AND FITTING THE RAND, The Foundation For The HeelsCHAPTER 19. FITTING THE SHANK AND FILLING THE FOOTBEDCHAPTER 20. ATTACHING THE OUTSOLESCHAPTER 21. STITCHING THE OUTSOLES TO THE WELTCHAPTER 22. MAKING THE HEELSCHAPTER 23. STAINING AND POLISHING THE SOLE AND HEEL EDGESCHAPTER 24. ATTACHING RUBBER STICK- ON SOLESCHAPTER 25. REMOVING THE LASTS AND TRYING ON YOUR SHOESGLOSSARYFURTHER READING Together With My Personal Opinions On SuitabilityThis book contains an absolute wealth of information and is a generous size to handle at 11 inches x 8.5 inches, and has 270 pages with over 380 full of colour photographs to guide you along the way to make your first pair of high quality shoes.
Details e-book MAKING HANDMADE SHOES: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE: Traditional shoes with hand-sewn welts and pegged heels
🗸 Author(s): Harry Rogers
🗸 Title: MAKING HANDMADE SHOES: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE: Traditional shoes with hand-sewn welts and pegged heels
🗸 Rating : 4.9 from 5 stars (52 reviews)
🗸 ISBN-10: B0BM57TF35
🗸 ISBN-13: 978B0BM57TF31
🗸 Languange: English
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