Now I Wear Wooden Shoes 

My Grandfather only wore wood shoes as long as I can remember. He would modify them a bit with leather nailed to the bottoms to increase wear, lessen noise, and add a bit of comfort. The thing I remember most is that he could also use them as self defense and had fun showing how he could launch them off his foot with deadly accuracy and hit a 5 inch target 10-15 feet away every time.

You know you've been watching too much wranglerstar when you live in the city and wooden clogs start sounding like a good idea lmao

'Metal' pants, wooden shoes... Next he'll be wearing a stone hat!

As a dutch Guy its very Nice to see an american enjoing our culture. In Holland we call wooden shoes: "klompen". Keep up the good work Cody!

The word "sabotage" comes from wooden shoes (sabot) when under paid workers would throw their shoes in the works (gears) of the machine!

My understanding (and I might be wrong) was that the fields of Holland were so wet that leather shoes rotted quickly, while wooden shoes didn't soak up as much water, lasted longer, and kept your feet drier. Also, wood is more readily available and cheaper.

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Goes to holland* I wear wooden shoes now.

As a Dutch person I approve of your shoes !

Why do the Dutch wear clogs? -It keeps the woodpeckers away from their heads.

Cody, you inspired me! Got my klompen yesterday from Nelis Dutch Village in Holland MI. They were only $40 plus shipping, very inexpensive. While quite large, I'm hoping they give me more support and protect my feet from the cold of the concrete in my garage/shop. Roasted coffee for an order this morning and I haft say, they're quite comfortable. Going up stairs will take some getting used to, however!

I love the out of the box solutions you come with creatively. Your ideas don't always succeed; but you still show your failures; which is very honest and instructive. We won't always succeed but to continue to try is the main thing. I love the show man. Keep it up. I enjoy it immensely!

Next project. Wranglerstar builds himself a woodsawing windmill

I am actually about to make wooden shoes for my shop. It is not that hard to do. just takes a bit of time.

You visited Holland! That is so cool, I live in the Netherlands and I was watching your channel for a while now. I can confirm that wooden shoes are even considered comfortable and safe here. I used to wear them as a kid when I was 'helping' my grandpa doing some woodworking. Great to see this and hear the sound of the wooden shoes on the background... Enjoy them, greetings from Holland!

Me, as a Dutch who wears clogs as safety shoes and while on the tractor: proud. Hehe They require getting used to, but are very durable, comfortable, never hot nor cold, slide-ins, and cheap.. just wear thick socks the first 1-2 months for the pain.

Your pegs don't need to be perfectly round, in contrary, the angles help to lock the peg in place.

what are those

Before we understood how the human decayed after death, there was the belief that corpses were climbing out of their coffins and feasting on their relatives. This is where the vampires myth started. One method of keeping the "Vampire" in its coffin was literally staking them into it. It didn't originally need to be wooden, but wood was easier to come by then steel stakes.

Perfect information on the wooden shoes. Thank you for sharing that. I live in Holland and i wear them too (in my spare time). Back in the days (like 40 years ago) the wooden shoe maker sold the wooden shoes out of the trunk of his car. If you bought a pair they where cut to a perfect personal fit using special tools like you did . Now a days you buy them in the store and the store keeper has no idee what to do if you ask to cut the wooden shoes to a perfect fit. In Holland wooden shoes are called "klompen", "klomp" (1) or "klompen" (2 or more).

This is one of the things I really appreciate about your channel the most. You're not afraid to just try to figure something out. You've got a problem and you figure out a solution. It's nice that you're just using the skills you have to solve the problems you encounter. It's really inspired me to try a few more adventurous projects around my house recently. Some have worked, some haven't, but I've really learned a lot. Keep up the great work!

One small correction. Threaded pipe has the same o.d. because the fittings need to match the different schedules of pipe. One inch pipe, no matter what the schedule, can be threaded with a one inch pipe die. Schedule 40 or standard pipe has a larger i.d. than schedule 80. Just to make it interesting the pipe sizes are an approximation of the actual pipe size. Schedule 40 half inch pipe has a 5/8" i.d. and will just fit into 3/4" schedule 40. The standard sizing makes it ideal for shade tree mechanics and farm yard fabricators, like me, to build telescoping chain tighteners.

Nice clogs :) Yeah the farmers used to wear clogs in the old days to protect their feet from rocks and stones also to keep the feet dry and above the mud. Also back in the day there weren't many shoemakers and the leather and having them custom made was not something a lot of common people could afford.

"Pipe wrench, the cornerstone of modern civilization." XD

NO JOKE Square peg in round hole works great.

Clogs are great, I use Swedish clogs("toffel") during the summer when I work in the yard or when I am at the cabin. I can highly recommend using clogs during the summer months! I haven't tried using all wooden clogs but if I visit the Netherlands I might buy a pair. Keep up the awesome videos!

The wear/wore a similar thing in Norther England, in the 19th and early 20th century. There was a lot of cotton mills up north and the folk who worked in the factories wore what they called clogs. The sole was made from wood made from Ash, Beech or Sycamore but the tops were made from leather, I think the might have had metal or rubber on the soles to protect them, and a metal cap at the toe to protect the toe.

Like you say, wooden shoes are still used. They are quite comfortable. My dad also had them and we had little ones. Now I moved back to a rural environment, I plan to pick some up too.

A lathe would be the ideal thing for those dowels.

don't were them for fire fighting

I recommend soaking them in boiled linseed oil-and letting them dry, off course-before wearing them. The oil impregnates the wood which protects it against moist and most dirt and prevents the shoes from drying and cracking. I use the same oil to take care of my Japanese white oak Katori Shinto Ryu gear. Really works wonders.

Matthias Wandel has a different solution to this problem as well. I love seeing all the different solutions to the "how to make a high-quality dowel" problem! Also, plus one on the wooden shoes. I wear a pair in my own shop. Thick wool socks render them amazingly comfortable.

English mill clogs are usually wood and leather. I use to have a friend who wore them in the 70's.

HiAll the dowel makers that I have seen are holes in a piece of steel plate and the dowel stock is hammered through, the pipe should work Just as well but it would be difficult to remove the dowel after

we still use partial wooden shoes in sweden, the sole is made of wood and the rest is made out of leather. and its plainly called träskor. very common in the countryside.

or just use a lathe.

What knife was that that you used?

I thought you were going to use of the cloggs for a mallet to release the 1" nipple instead of going back to the shop

i just started watching your videos and something very comforting, you sound so much like my grandpa to taught me so much about wood working! i love it and all your videos!

For my timber frame dowels I used a Veritas 1 inch dowel maker from Lee Valley tools. I scrounged walnut scraps from a local moulding mill. For a 1" dowel the stock is ripped to 1 1/8" and chucked in a 1 1/8" square socket ( included in the kit) and driven through the twin blade jig. Worked perfectly, made hundreds of linear feet for the cost of the jig.

What knife was he using at 19:05?

i you start the dowel with a hand cut taper for about 2" it should give you a good starter to use in the water pipe. the problem with trying to hammer a square stock in is that it's going to want to follow the grain is it cuts and walks itself where ever it's going to go. with a starter taper it'll give it some guidance to stay put and straight as you hammer it in the rest of the way!

We used to get wooded shoes at Lynden, WA and Solvag, CA when we were kids. Both are Dutch towns there on the West Coast.

I really enjoy your videos, man. I always learn something new and interesting. Thanks for what you do.

mathias wendell has a video on making dowels using a really simple jig. in the video he uses an electric drill, but im sure it'll work just fine with a hand powered drill.

I have a pair myself, we wear them to in the very west of westphalia (Germany)

Love your channel! Greetings from the Netherlands.

My Dutch descendant friends tell me that wooden shoes are also very slip resistant on icy surfaces.

I'm sure someone told you about a 1 inch nut with an X hacksawed through the nut and held in s vice and take the wood and spin it through the nut to get a perfect dowel. There are videos on RU-vid of guys making arrow shafts with that method.

why not use a lathe to make those dowels?

I think it's pretty neat that you have a need and can then visualize a tool that would get it done, and then fashion it. That's awesome!

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You did very well using that method, but perhaps a simple jig to hold the wood and metal tube square, and then press the wood through with a jack of some sort?

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Hello Cody, If u ever have cold feet, try filling ur wooden shoes with hay. It keeps blisters away and ur feet will be nice and warm. U can also add a leather band ( notice the holes in the sides) to keep the front of your feet from rubbing against the klomp. This also prevents your feet from sliding around in the klomp an makes walking alot easier. Thanks for this video, its nice to learn more about the old woodworking skills.

my dad was a carpenter. From memory he had two tools for making it. one was similar to what you just made, the other was a tapered hole in a steel plate with a diameter a bit smaller than the first tool. So that even if the cutter tool remove to much at some point because of the grain, the wood would then be compressed round. Hope that help

pipe is I.D and tube is O.D just to spread knowledge! love your channel, "amish-ish" lol

Hi Cody. what kind of pocket knife was that? looks beautiful.

Ahhhh, wooden shoes. These go nicely with my wooden socks. I also enjoy using my wooden blanket at night (No, it's not just a sheet of plywood, it is a wooden blanket.) The "Before Comfort" times are nice.

They do isolate in cold weather. Totally good to use as farmer or in the garden. You dont mind about mud, keep warm feet. Still used by some people in my area and it is not even Netherlands.

did anyone else notice thAT @ 6:27 he used the clip showing him walking out with the mallet and then starts talking about how he should've brought the mallet with him?

Im from holland live on a farm and somtimes i woud wheare these my self

English millworkers used this type of clog in the nineteenth century. A famous guidebook writer from the English Lake District, A. Wainwright, said that he decided he never wanted to work in a mill when he heard the workers shuffling to work at 6 in the morning with their clogs along the cobbled streets.

In 1974 I spent the Summer as a 'porteur' hauling a back full of grapes from 'couper' to wagon. I wore wooden shoes, like the Dutch. Filled out with dry grass until comfortable I hauled 80 pounds of grapes per trip. Wore the shoes all Summer.

invest in a lathe, you can make all the round things you want

I'm from Brittany and my grand father used to wear "sabots".. And for a comfy feel he used to stuff some straw inside them

I’m two years late and I’m sure it was said in the comments already by anyone who’s ever read the woodwrights workshop series of books. But your shaving horse and drawknife is probably a faster option for pre-cutting the peg blanks. I’m a new subscriber. And love your videos. Definitely appreciate the quality entertainment.

I have been begging for longer videos so thank you thank you thank you.

18:52 New knife?

In the north part of Spain we also have wood shoes pretty similar to yours, but we have other kind of design for the sole. Check it if you are interested they are call MADREÑAS and often are used to work in the farm or garden. Recommend to be worn with thick wool socks.

Here's a great way to get a consistent curve with a file: start with the file perpendicular to the stock, front of the file down, handle up, and as you push through the stroke, rock the handle down and the front end up. A little more complicated when you also have a bevel like this, but nonetheless, it will help keep it round.

Have you found a way to make dowels? I made a tenon cutter out of a 2*4 with a hole and and a spoke shave blade. Looks like a big pencil sharpener. I could send you pictures and how I made it if your interested.

You should try making your own doweling plane (rounders) . I just used some nice sharp irons from an old plane, I made a block like the the one in the link, I drill the size hole i wanted in the middle of the block ,i then carved a cone shaped entrance on one side and then angled a old plane iron like a pencil sharpener to the cone, I used a saw to make the slot for the iron, so the tip of the iron was just on the edge of the hole i put a bolt with a wing nut to tighten the iron. Could be a fun project for you. www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/MS-IROUND.XX/Rounding_Planes_(Rounders)__by_Ray_Iles

I was dying to hear him say "focus you fack!" like AvE

A classmate of mine's dad was an US Army Engineer in Holland, he had a pair of olive drab ones.

in denmark we call them træsko :) when i were just a little boy my grandfather had a workshop as he were a farmer and plumber. i remember being at my grandmother and grandfather's place and i remember him walking from the living room to the entry in his flannel shirt and cowboy jeans, to put his pair of wooden shoes on.. i remember when he got back in, and took them off again i would put them on and see how my six year old feet were way to small for them.. i did not even know i remembered this up until now. miss ya pops..

Damn are those supreme??? Those shoes are fire

as a native person, i could make a pretty heavy duty mukluk. they'd look nicer than those too, no offense. slap some beads and fur on em you know lace em up nice

Another idea for making dowels: Home made lathe using an old drill mounted to a jig so you can have a center point on the other side of the piece. Once spinning, use a wood rasp to rough shape and sandpaper to finish.

When you purchased your wooden shoes, were you sized other than the length and width, I have trouble with off the shelf boots and shoes, for comfort I require a full instep with good support. How is that achieved with wooden shoes? You can have any colour you want as long as its wood.

Where did you get your leather pants?

On making your own shoes, what about leather moccasins?

I'm glad you're back, I've MISSED you!

In our Western-Hobby, we call them "Holz-Mocs"/wooden Moccassins. They are quiet comfortable, when you buy them at least one size bigger. Then you never have cold feet, because thick woolen socks fit in them.

Alternative dowel method woodgears.ca/dowel/making.html

Didn't Matthias wandels wood working channel have a build on a dowel maker?

very common in Sweden to, but only the sole is wooden, the top is leather or whatnot and the heel is not covered so they are like outside slippers

I bought a pair of 'clogs', with a wooden sole and a leather upper, in Holland about twenty-five years ago. I'm now on my second pair. I use them instead of slippers around the house. They felt weird, to begin with. Once you get accustomed to them, they are super comfortable.

Cody, its 2019, do you ever wear the wooden shoes anymore???

Fint mä Tofflor!

My family does reenactment camping and we have these same shoes. I highly recommend lining your shoes in lambs wool. If not some suede will work.

hi ! I will be really glad if you can tell my wich watch are you wearing in this video !

You were carrying the mallet out there the first time...?

only one thing.... i love your 'klompen' ( woodenshoes) but you made a statement that Scandinavia use them or develops the style or something like that hahahahah one Holland( only a small part of The netherlands) is not a part of Scandinavia. believe me i am a Dutch man living in Scandinavia ;D and also nobody made ther own shoos in The Netherlands, because the old technique is quiet a art, nowadays they use a copy machine to chissel them out, you probably bought them on the Zaanse Schans, if so then you were correct that you were in Holland. they are comfortable aint they? a hint is to put an steel or leather band around them right under where you go in, this way they last longer. wel keep your videos coming and ignore those 'chairknow it all' with there negativity, just do what you do best, love to see more of your axe building stuf too, greetings from Norway or in dutch Doei!

I'm glad you had a great time in european countries. I like it how respectful you are talking about the heritage of the old world. I do like your wooden shoes. I just finished my first pair of shoes a week ago. I started it as a leather project and made English style Oxfords by hand. Have worn them to town and with a suit.

I love you man. Keep on keeping on.

You have a wood lathe? :-/

"Let's see you do that with your nicks" do you mean Nikes? :D

The wooden shoes you have are quite similar to the ones made in drenthe , the netherlands ( they're typically covering most of the top of your foot) , there are also wooden shoes from the province of friesland that have cut out more of the top and use a leather strap across the top of your foot and are better for walking . Warm feet and no sweat when worn with wool socks.

They used to have a dowel maker that was common kit, that worked exactly like what you've built. I don't know if they were as big in diameter, but they used them for making pegs for joinery.