Is it weird that I really like the sounds the machines makes? Lol. I can seriously watch you fix shoes all day and listen to you explain everything. Aannnyyywhhooo great video!! Keep it up!!
I have lived 70 years and have flown a multitude of aircraft, worked on cars and disassembled a multitude of machines. However, three things that are and remain complete and total magic to me are women, music, and sewing machines. Hats off mate.
What a great video. You said that the Victor is around 60 years old. With proper maintenance it will last another 60. Not many things made today will outlast it.
Greetings Dan. I stayed thru the video and enjoyed every minute of it. I spent 11 years as a TV producer of Informational, Educational and Instructional television for the Feds, and I have to say you did an excellent job of production and presentation. As best I can tell, the person who invented the Victor machine was a student of both sewing machines and motion picture projectors. The similarity is amazing; just different names, like awl versus claw. Great job!! Glen (Molasses Cookies) from Maryland
I just received my first pair of nice, moderately expensive shoes. A gorgeous pair of Burford brogues from Loake. Would never have had the confidence to purchase if not for you and your wonderful explanations of shoe care and construction! Can't wait for my shoe care kit from your online shop to arrive! Thanks from Pennsylvania, USA!
Cobblers are very difficult to find in the area of the US that I reside in. Most seem to be elderly gentlemen that continue to carry on with the tradition.
@@JonWhitton Don't use their repair service....they just don't do what they say on the tin, but they do make fine shoes I've got 5 pairs of different style boots.
That motion is hypnotic. Also incredibly impressive how intricately made these machines are. So many moving parts all working in tandem to achieve one specific function.
Thanks Dan, fascinating machines, Them old engineers were clever folk creating a machine for stitching soles together such intricate parts but simple stitching, so many things need to happen to get it perfect.
Great video as always Dan! I must say I recently became a cobbler apprentice (thanks to you and other YT cobblers who inspired me). I was in the other day and I wanted to learn how the Landis outsole stitcher worked and I tried my hand at it. I must say it’s much more difficult than it looks. You can go off track easily, break needles etc. It was a surprisingly sensitive machine when it came to speed as well. But I’ll continue to practice on it along with the sanders and finishers, and hope one day I’ll be as good as my teacher and you!
@@dustinwilkinson6264 I must say I’m a Pepsi guy, but I’m also an athlete (Goalkeeper [Soccer]) so I keep my soda intake to a minimum and my water intake to a max. I’m learning this trade more so as serious hobby than a career, but also to have something to fall back on should university not pan out the way I hope it does. But I’m going in to the shop every week three days a week, just finished up my first 6 days. My teacher has over 30 years experience. He is also a very kind and patient man. I’ll be going back to school in the fall for second year, but will continue to come down at least once every other week to continue to learn from him.
I watched it. I will probably never use these machines. But I enjoy watching a professional do his work & to see that old machines are still doing a great job in the right hands. Big thumbs up.
The one thing that is NEVER discussed is how the needle drives through the new insole and the welt, but never nicks the upper! A camera down below, showing the path of the needle wrt the upper would be fabulous! Great video!
as an unpaid novice helper at a repair shop, the owner wont let me go anywhere near his stitching machines until i know how to use them, even if i bring my own shoes to work on. Catch 22. Rewatching this whole video like 50x over and over. Thanks for the info on how these things work.
As one of the requesters of this video, that was perfectly done. At high speed it looks like magic but seeing it slowed down was great. Thanks so much!
Thanks for the video. Not only am I a diy cobbler hack "I do my work boots" I love machines like this. I work at a print shop and Victor is like a cross between a string tie machine and a wire stitcher which is like a heavy duty stapler.
OMG You have my thumbs-up and so much more, you are a true professional, excellent communicator, and an outstanding showman. Wishing you all the best. Dan you're just the best.
I very much enjoy this video 🤗 It was informative and thorough. I was able to relate it to my sewing machine although I will be sticking to clothing garments only 😀. Any more videos like this are so welcome. Thanks 🤗
Really fallen in love with your channel and videos over the past month, watching many many hours! Thanks for creating this video, I was really curious the background, history, and how these work!
Thanks for the demo. I do my own resoling, but, the one thing I (obviously) can't do as a hobbyist is to sole stitch, I have to find a kind cobbler who'll channel and stitch my soles on for me. Sadly, our local cobbler doesn't do goodyear welted shoes anymore so i have to go up to Cardiff. I've considered hand stitching, i have the tools, but I've never seen a neat job done... I am confident I can put a new welt on... as many cobblers do as they often lack a machine. Thanks Dan, fantastic videos. Marc.
Awesome vid man! i know you were a bit apprehensive, but you did quite well. Thank you! I love that old machinery, and stitching/sewing machines have always been a little "black magic" to me. Informative, entertaining, and scratched the itch of curiosity. Nice work
So much respect for the guys who created something like this. I don’t believe minds capable of creating things like this exist anymore. We rely too heavily on those who came before us.
I refurbished a Landis Model 12 F last winter so I’m interested in curved needle outsole stitchers. Shamefully I hadn’t heard of the Victor brand. Thanks for educating this dummy!
The effect of the awl to move the shoe along was something new for me. Makes sense, but until seeing this, I figured the cobbler had to move it along and it was befuddling understanding how they could be that consistent. Thanks for this one, Dan !
I absolutely love this machine. It fascinates me how it works. I bought myself a normal style sewing machine that is capable of stitching three pieces of 3.5mm leather. For doing a few leather projects. But the specialised machine like the soul stitcher is amazing. Thanks for the video. 👍
Thanks for explaining all that and taking time to record this all in action. Really intriguing piece of machinery. The mystery of groove depth and matching the old holes with new thread is solved ! Also the blue shoe on the end has cool design, wouldn't mind wearing pattern like this.
Excellent stuff Dan ... You are a true Master craftsman ... all of my shoes will be coming to you for repair at some point in the future. BTW ... your online shop is great, you sent my (small!) order mega quick and efficiently ... Thank You !
It’s crazy, I literally have all of these machines your showing and have no clue how to use them! Inherited a shoe repair shop not too long ago, been trying to learn!
This was the most interesting video that you have made. Thanks so much for your content. I would love to learn your craft but I guess at 58 it’s probably too late for a career change now. Keep up the good work and keep the brilliant videos coming.
Fascinating. I watch you, Bedos, Brian The Bootmaker, Trenton and Heath, CobblerG and occasionally a few others, so I’ve wondered how the outsole stitchers work. Thanks for the demonstration.
I really enjoyed the video, very informative and also mind boggling. I'd love to see a series of these types of videos, alongside your usual repair ones. Keep up the good work.
Always double tac your stitches on your welt outsoles. Also when your stitching.. remember to hoddle up your lines to make it more easier when it comes to the double tac.
Love your work Dan…..this vid answered a lot of questions for me…..Victor has had me both mesmerised and fascinated as to how it works. Your detail an explanation was brilliant, to enlighten a lay person into the dark arts of being an exceptional cobbler….👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻 Always a pleasure to watch and learn from a skilled tradesmen whom takes pride and has passion in their chosen field…. Thank you from Down-under🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I just got a Landis K and it's been a heck of a thing to learn to use. Thanks for posting the video, I might adjust my looper seeing how your machine is setup. The needle isn't catching all the cords in my 8 cord linen and I wonder if it might need fewer cords. I'm using thread lubricant currently.
Heya Dan, this was a great video. Don't know where to suggest this idea though so I thought I'll just post it here. How about taking a cheap pair of shoes just from a cheap shoe shop or even a supermarket and then trying to upgrade them to make them higher quality? Something like putting new stitched soles on, toe plates and things like that and see how much they can be improved, how much it would cost and then how they'd compare afterwards to a more expensive shoe out of the box.
Thank you for showing us all how Victor works, it's really fascinating! Ron needs to hit the gym with you, I think most of his issues stem from having a very low muscle mass 😜 I'd be interested to see more videos like this when you have the time 😊 Take care and happy cobbling! 💜
would like to know what the go is with the little dummy man at the front and the shops history a bit would be cool. love what you're doing and dedication to your work, so solid and knowledgeable mate.
Hello Dan. I watched the whole video which I found to be interesting, and you did well to fit it into a video of under twenty minutes. One comment I want to make; In an episode of Sherlock Holmes, the tv series set in around 1900s London when I suppose most shoes were leather, Watson makes a comment on a friend of theirs who has fallen on hard times . The reason he made that comment was that he noticed his friends shoes had been repaired rather than replaced with new ones when worn out. It made me think do wealthy people always buy new rather than repair what are comfortable shoes? I never forgot that piece of trivia and perhaps you can answer.
I'd like to recommend you the best AA tweezers I have ever had that might be good for taking threads out. While perforated music disc repair tweezers are the best, they are near impossible to find anymore. For today's needs of fine tweezers go with Hakko. Designed in Japan, made in the north of Italy. Premium performance and feel with dual tempered prongs to be springy yet incredibly strong. So strong in fact I can bend all other tweezers with them. I am alarmed with the value and performance of them.
You need a PhD to run that machine!😉 You make everything look easy...I wish you were closer-it’s hard to find a good person to fix shoes...there are just some that you can’t throw away!
