Author Archives: customboots

I spent most of my day skiving, but fortunately sitting and skiving all day is one of my favorite things. It’s incredibly easy on a design like this to accidentally skive off a point and have to cut the entire … Continue reading →

I’m starting a new pair of boots. This is a design I’ve done before titled “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” updated with a Cherokee Star top band.

Introducing “This Is The Last Cowboy Song.” The song is only a lament for cowboys but somehow that seems historically correct. “… the voices sound sad as they’re singing along, another piece of America’s lost…”

I’ll let them sit on the trees overnight so they’ll have a nice shape, then final polish and they’re done!

The next step is building the heels; they’re almost finished!

Today I practiced a little bit of the Self Employed Person’s Physical Therapy (suck it up and do it anyway). I tore up several things in my left arm a few months ago and this stitch requires spreading the arms … Continue reading →

I’m envying boot makers with normal sized feet at the moment. To make this design for myself I had to shrink it down until it’s right on the edge of what’s possible. It was hard to cut out, hard to … Continue reading →

They’re on the last now, and beginning to look like boots.

Inside-out boots wouldn’t be nearly as much fun so I suppose I’ll turn the other one too.

Cutting the vamp tongue is always exhilarating because there is zero room for error. It’s certainly not like I can go grab another crimped alligator vamp out of the scrap box.