GERMAN WW1 BOOTS Upcycled to MOUNTAIN CLIMBING BOOTS! Unusual Shoe Repair 

Happy new year sir!!

Have a think for your other channel on your nutrition regarding your training. Protein, BCAA, creatine...on what you use for supplements. Love that channel as well.

I wish you a very happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous New Year 😊😊🎉🎉🍾🍾

Buona sera e buon anno Come mai ha utilizzato così questo tipo di chiodi? Non si utilizzano così!

Have you ever done any race car driver shoe repairs?

Damn, yeah, I think you're right.

I googled ww1 mountaineering boots and I see what you mean damn I wonder what happens now

Agree, it would make more sense the studs would be on the bottom similar to what he’s calling the “hob nails”. But in his defense it seems like the drawing shows both placed around the perimeter, fins as well as studs.

Oh jesus! I googled for pictures of such boots and yes, it would seem you are correct! Those cleats seem to be upside down.

Interesting, did he re set the studs in another video or ever address this?

Two of the other escapees were Rolf Magener and Heins von Have. They successfully traveled 2,400Km across India and Burma disquised as both English officers and Swiss businessmen, before reaching Japanese lines. Along the way they dined at British officers clubs, had taylored uniforms made, traveled as officers on trains and frequented restaurants/hotels where the British and Americans stayed. After convincing the Japanese they were'nt spies, they were then flown to Japan and spent the rest of the war as Honorary Consuls at the German Embassy in Tokyo. They were then repatriated in 1947, with Rolf Magnerer being imprisoned by the Americans on his returne to Germany. This tale is worthy of a movie by itself The irony was, if they had not escaped the camp in 1944, they would have returned home to Germany several years earlier with the rest of the internees from Dehradun. Magener's memoir, Prisoner's Bluff, details their adventure and is well worth a read.

@@InspectorGadget1976 Those times were filled with great stories about escaping and avoiding capture. I have to admit I'd really like to see a film about these guys. Thanks

I could not figure how those spikes were to give better grip the way it was mounted to these particular boots. You are right, your mentioned picture search made immediate sense; they are to be directed head down from bottom of the sole. Well, cant get everything perfect. The drawing was not very detailed and theres not many icy mountains to climb in his urban area, just a few neighbourly hills... :)) He makes beautiful works else in general. I wish I had anyone near his skills in my neighbourhood. All I have here is dubiously incompetent and uber greedy guys with a motorized polish machine making no better result than what I can polish by hand, they carry a small selection of shoe laces (end of story yet they call themselves "Cobblers"), and can make double copies of simpler models of existing keys...

This, i was like "wtf why" during all the making process These can be easily seen mounted properly on swiss boots

Yes exactly I was cringing when he put them on wrong

You're correct. I have an original pair (found years ago at a Polish flea market - they look gruesome and the bent over nails just add to the effect) which are exactly as you describe - and the 'wings' overlap.

yeah after googling mountaineering boots, I have noticed its nailed on the wrong side 😬

Yep. The boots in the vid look Blake Stitched, and the outsole edges pretty close to the upper. Probably need something with a pukka Norwegian Welt to make it work.

You'd think a RU-vid channel that features fixing shoes and boots could've done the same research a commenter could do to make those mountain boots more period correct. I'd rather watch a video of the commenter making the boots.

Spot on and how uneven were they anyway?? No symmetry, no measuring, not even close to being the same side to side and never mind how uneven the hobnails were too, sheesh, amateur hour... The least one could do would be to measure it all out...

the "teeth" remind me of goth boots, makes me wonder if thats how they originated

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Can we get a clear pic of the ink