Author Archives: customboots

This is the third pair that I’ll be finishing this week.

I should have this pair finished soon.

I finished a pair of boots today. Introducing: “Coca-Cola Cowboy”

Here’s a link to my Youtube video for June. It’s a Boot Life

Cowboy boot soles traditionally have a double row of wooden pegs in the sole, and the hole for the pegs is created with a pegging awl in a wood handle. Here I’m demonstrating how to hold the pegging awl and … Continue reading →

If you’re going to sign up and take my leather inlay/overlay class in Eureka Springs, Arkansas next weekend, you’d better hurry! Eureka Springs School of the Arts class with Lisa

I had a dentist appointment today and this afternoon I felt myself becoming very grumpy and not wanting to finish inseaming these boots. And that’s when I realized… the numbness had worn off! I took some aspirin and got back … Continue reading →

YouTube video for May: making beading It’s a Boot Life

I put these boots on the last today; you can see by the color variation that the foot leather is still wet. This design is titled “If Heartaches Had Wings.”