Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

It’s a Boot Life

Posted on April 7, 2014 by customboots

My Monday video is now on YouTube.

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Stitched versus not stitched

Posted on April 4, 2014 by customboots

Stitched versus not stitched

I’m making progress on the oak leaf boot tops. One side of the design is stitched here and the other side is not. Stitching makes a big difference, doesn’t it?

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Oak Leaf Design photo essay

Posted on April 3, 2014 by customboots

The client had the brilliant idea of making the acorn tops out of alligator. I’m using one of the flippers (hind leg area) because it has tiny little scales.

I’ve cut out all of the acorn tops; now I have to skive them. As much as I love alligator, I DO NOT love skiving tiny little pieces of it…

…but, I got finished very quickly and now it’s done.

This will be the nut part of the acorn.

Here’s 24 of them all cut out and ready to be skived.

Kangaroo leather is super easy to skive.

First I cement the little alligator acorn tops into place, then add the acorn body.

Acorns!!!

PIDDLE!! Remember when I said I cut out 24? Well, one is missing. It’s probably stuck to my boot sole or something. You know the quickest way to find it? Cut out another one.

Yep, once I cut out another one I found it. It got stuck to the newspaper I use for applying glue.

This is a sneak peak at what the boot tops will look like with all the leaves. Of course it will look prettier once it’s stitched.

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New design

Posted on April 2, 2014 by customboots

New design

These are the tops for a pair of boots I’ll make this month. The design is very complex and it’s at this stage when I start asking myself WHY I do this to myself. Why didn’t I just try to talk him into a nice one-row-of-stitching design? Next week after the tops are completed I’m positive I’ll love them again.