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[Aradun]

Looking fantastic Sven!


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[HSM76]

Another update:

I roughly cut the leather I use for lining the shaft:

It has already the leftout for the part, where the hook velcro will sit on the inside, I didn't want to see through 5+ mm of leather and the velcro. The refinement of the shape was done after I sewed in the velcro and made the first test fit.

Velcro sewed on to the white leather:

The tab on top is sewn in between velcro and leather.

I beveled the lower edge of the lining leather for a smoother transition to the boot. Done with very sharp blades: a leather knife, an Xacto and after that smoothed out with sand paper. Unfortunately I don't have a pic of the final liner alone but you can see it after it is glued in:

As mentioned before, the glueing was done with contact glue. Because it will be round in the boot, you need to start attaching in the middle and work your way to the sides while rolling it into a tube. Get the two layers only lightly together so you can correct any creases in the outside leather. If everything is fine on the outside you can start applying pressure the the leather I used a small rubber roller for that. If you press to hard initially, you will not be able to correct the two parts!

The rolled glueing will result in overlaps on the sides you have to remove after it is all in place, again a very sharp blade and careful work is key.

This is the shaft closed up:

Right now it has to fully cure, after that I will get to sewing cap, shaft and dogbone together. I hope it will work as planned... I am a bit nervous about this.

[Aradun]

Wow! I can’t wait to see these boots finished Sven. I’m particularly curious about how the bevel in the tube will work out. It might be a design technique beneficial to those working with vinyl coverings.

I understand your nervousness given the amount of time it takes to work this leather but your planning and design process has been solid so far. I’m sure it’ll work out well.


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[HSM76]

Thank you Dennis, the beveled lower end will (hopefully) just help with the lining. It will press through the outer leather and leave a visible line. I could not go all to the end of the shaft with the lining as it would have been to thick and protruded over the sole. So I had to make sure that in the lower area there was only one layer of leather.

You can see the effect I mean with the tab, it is visible through the outer leather (in this case intended, as with the screen used boots)

[HSM76]

Got to some more work today, the left boot is nearly done:

Okay not in these pics. I sewed the cap to the shaft and the dogbone to the whole construction. It was a pain to do this, as visible in some of the seems. But it is rather stable in itself.

After that I glued the cap to the part of the shoe in front of the lacing and behind that, up to behind the shaft seem only at the bottom. 

The cover strip was attached and this is the (almost finished) boot. I have to do some more glueing at the top of the shaft.

[Aradun]

Looks fantastic! Well done!


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[HSM76]

The second boot is in the making.

Cap is stretched over the boot, levelers glued in place in front of the lacing:

The shaft is cut to size and right now the upper edge is turned in and clamped in place so hemming will be easier:

As it is with magnets you can only have "not enough"! There is no "too much"!

[Stickleggs]

Clamp champ


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