Always consummate results from the master craftsman. If you want boots to present themselves as quintessential British with uppers bar non then they deserve leather footbed solid shanks and a midsole of quality leather and an outsole FM JR along with solid brass toe plates split welts and leather stacked heels with brass nail flourish and darkened brown leather and artisan stamps! Bedo...Steve...you represent the cobbling craft and leather works repair to the Grand Master Level....you should be a member in the British Guild. Or perhaps there should be a Utube Guild for Cobblers. You have my vote for first class standards and execution. Thanks for the Video. The boots are fit for an Officer and a gentleman!
Great work Steve…loved the shirt & tie in the teardown stage. Grateful that you showed the little ramp to stich over the cut out for the French tips. Gerry
Excellent job. Just a tip for any of your viewers who are thinking of buying Crockett and Jones or Tricker’s footwear - they can be a little snug, particularly for slip-on styles. It’s worth paying attention to the size guides on their websites as they may recommend going a half size up from normal. Crockett actually include instructions to measure feet and if customers are unsure, they suggest sending them the measurements for them to advise.
Slip on styles need to fit a little snug. Once they stretch you can't just do the laces up a little tighter so they should initially be tighter than a lace-up shoe or a boot.
Great job, another fantastic video. You are getting real good with the camera. Those closeups of that ramp on the toe so the machine would not get stuck were awesome. Another example of the amazing things you can do and how your experience has made you the expert that you are.
Great video of you upgrading those boots. I was surprised that you were nervous about stitching the soles considering your level of expertise. It's actually nice to hear you admitted that to your audience rather than playing it cool. Thanks.
Why would I love your work? It’s mad. Maybe because my wife’s family, in the Victorian era, were shoe and boot makers from Kettering in Northamptonshire. Keep it up, Steve.
If the Rapid-E is a "crapshoot", what dictates when you use it over another machine? Does it do a better job on certain soles, or jobs? I imagine you have a reason for sticking with it? Cheers
I aways wondered what was the outcome of that competition! Congrats on winning "the gold"; did you do a follow-up video? As always, fantastic job, Steve! 👍💞
I've got the second winter season on my Danners that you recrafted. They are holding up wonderfully. I would have been on my second recraft from the Danner's shop. It was well worth the wait. It's such a joy to lace them up every morning. Hammer Time!
Well that's cheered me up. In bed suffering from Civic, yes it's still about. Wasn't sure it was possible to add value to high quality boot, but you certainly show high quality hand work can do that
As far as the stress in your fingers or hands during sewing, you might want to soak your hands or place them in a heated moist hand towel for a few minutes ( 10 min) it can help to relax the muscles & tendons. Then you can exercise your fingers and hands, gently. Then again if there is swelling then you can try COOL water soak for few minutes. See which feels better. BTW don’t think I’ve ever seen you with a tie on. You look very distinguished & handsome. The boots turned out fantastic. Love the fact that they were made out of QUALITY material.
Steve I love crocket and Jones shoes a great English quality shoe company as are many others a great repair as always the c&j brogues I had in 82 lasted till 2002 then not knowing a cobbler and the fact you could send them back to the factory for repair I dumped them in the trash 😢 and started again 😮
Well, I'm VERY upset that you used a new utility knife blade.....you deprived me (and yourself) of triggering people and having them lose their minds.LOLOL. Great fix on the boots!! Have a great day my friend.
You warm your hands before working and ice afterwards. You want the fingers and joints warm before you start and you ice to prevent swelling afterwards to start the recovery process.
Steve, cold water is use for inflammation while hot water or heat is used for blood flow and helps the bodies muscles relax, according to my family doctor.
Steve,you are really an excellent craftsman, you pay full attention to the repairs, making an extra effort to make the repair really high-quality. Congratulations, you are truly an outstanding example of someone who loves his job and at the same time knows the job inside out. If by any chance you read the comments, best regards and keep it up.
Can it been done in reverse where it goes from 3E to a D size? See me and my dad got these Florsheim LEXINGTON Wingtip Loafer I had to get 3E because I was reaching 300 lbs but now I am on the road to losing weight I am down to 223 lbs at 5' 5" and with that my feet got smaller. Funny thing is my foot length stayed the same 10 but my width got smaller. I hate to toss these away
I’ve seen these boots posted by you on one of the facebook shoe groups, looks incredible. Just a question from your experience does stretching shoe width affect last shape? and how many millimetres do you think it’s possible to stretch the width of the shoe. Thanks. And I mean using cobblers show stretcher.
No it doesn’t change the shape. Usually you can’t tell they are stretched until you put them on. Depending on the leather some stretch easily then others, maybe a few sizes
Happy to see you work on a pair of C&J and that they're put together reasonably. I spent a long while trying to figure out a good middle ground with shoes and have am very happy with this brand. Have bought many pairs. They become comfortable quick, price point is ok and the service in their main London shop is very, very good. This would be my #1 British shoe brand recommendation. I have the same pair of Coniston and would recommend them. The only thing is that this pebble grain leather may not be the best for a shaft as it never really becomes super soft, so it takes a long while in the beginning to make the shaft a bit pliable and not awkward walking down stairs.
Those are some really beautifully made boots and by changing the size to fit the customers wider foot along with the awesome dyed JR soles and brass tips just put these over the top SPECTACULAR!!! TYFS
Incredible craftsmanship at work as we have now come to expect but why did someone buy some boots that didn’t fit in the first place? Even mail order items are returnable.
Why do you hammer the soul on and not just press? I like when it’s hammer time but dose it really add to the making of the soul? Thank you for the videos
Beautiful job, really amazing. My 13yo CJs have gradually gone from width E to G over the years. If I knew then what you can do I would have send them to you immediately 👍👍👍
The uppers of these boots looks just like my father's RAF 1960s boots. I mean, identical! He used to spit and polish the toe caps until they looked like glass. I seem to remember he used a hot spoon... 🤔🙄😳 Great video. 😁
That's my size too LOL. I don't think I love any boots enough to pay to do this though. They must be real favorites. But how did they get that way if they hurt his feet? The chicken and the egg... In my case, Propet boots' last in 9EEE fits me perfectly.
Steve: The small 'ramp' when stitching is exactly why I love this channel. Innovation or problem solving is key to any successful business or project. Very clever. Simple solution. Thanks.
Amazing work how do you make a boot/shoe wider? You obviously can’t add leather. Is this simple explanation that you just stretch the existing leather to accommodate the wider width? I know I’ve used a shoe stretcher and or brought the shoes to my good friend Dan at Broadway Cobbler to To have him stretch them for me. But in this case, it seems like that simple exercises impossible. How much width can you actually add?
Great work as always Steve. I really love Crockett and Jones products, it's always great the rare times you have them on the channel. Nice to see the internal materials quality is still top notch in them
Mr. Bedo, Steve I am from Oklahoma and have enjoyed your RU-vid videos for over a year. I will be 71 this year when you release a new video I will talk Cowboy boots with you and people who follow you on RU-vid. Best wishes and blessings for your videos you’re my favorite of the few I follow, Sincerely Doc ( nickname from Vietnam service)
That's beautiful clean work Steve... and all planned to succeed. Doing my brother's C&J cap toes next, resole, re-heel and sand down some cracks that the previous owner probably caused by only using wax... and caking it on the vamps! They have thick horrible Toppy type things on the outsoles at the moment that ruin the look and function of the shoe. I'd imagine the outsoles were shot so these abomination were stuck on.
Steve, I'm from the UK I have a pair of crockett and jones and their repair shop at the factory told me this cannot be done to my shoes that they made unbelievable. Keep up the great work.
As always a great job. I'm very impressed on your telephone ediquete.on requesting for Time and waiting for a response before putting the phone on hold..as a former customer service manager.i seen it to often where I'm asked to hold and before I can say anything they just put me on hold..shows me that they don't really care.. again great job.nice to seeing someone putting pride in his work.
these Crockett & jones are pricey. aren't most custom made? my question is why did the customer purchase these, when fit wasn't exact. always enjoy a master craftsman at work..
So help us understand the point of this job...Was it a case of the customer screwing up fit and not wanting to put the total cost of a new pair and sucking up the cost of this labor? It looks great. That was some impressive free hand razor blade trimming on the toe tips.
