Author Archives: customboots

Today I sanded for hours, attempting to customize a last for one of the most challenging feet I’ve seen in years and then I realized that the vac system wasn’t doing a very good job so I went out and … Continue reading →

Introducing: “Little Birdie”

Two boots are almost done; I need to shape and polish the heels.

I taught a leather inlay/overlay class in the Netherlands today, at Rene van den Berg’s shoemaking school. I started the morning with not being able to find my earrings and watch in the hotel room, and this made me feel … Continue reading →

Here are some photos from my presentation to the Annie Oakley Society and the opening of the cowboy boot exhibition at the National Cowboy Museum.

I inseamed the pair of boots on the right today; the pair on the left has not been inseamed yet.

I can’t believe I get to make this pair of boots. They’re a reproduction of a vintage pair that I have loved for years.

I was a little slow putting these together because I kept pausing to admire the colors and the effect of the cognac alligator with the chocolate boot tops.

These boot tops are making me happy.

This set of boot tops has been incredibly bossy about how they’re going to be brought into the world.