Wingtips and countertips

These wing and countertips are ready and waiting for a boot.

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Wingtips

It’s the start of something new!

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It’s a Boot Life

Here’s a link to my latest YouTube video. In case you’re curious about them, I do a monthly video that’s 9-12 minutes long. The first 3-5 minutes are some technical explanation of a machine, tool, or technique. The rest of each episode is about my life as a boot maker; sometimes it features Morgan, or the farm animals, or my travels, or visitors to my shop.
In this episode, in addition to explaining how lasts work, I teach Morgan to make bread and sing with my cousins.

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Louvin Brothers

Look, just LOOK, at the boot tops I get to do next! They’re a reproduction of the iconic “Satan Is Real” album cover by the Louvin Brothers.

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American Women Artists Symposium

Here’s a link to my presentation at the American Women Artists Symposium in Tucson, Arizona.

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Is Your Love Like a Flower

Here’s an example of how I work with clients to design a pair of boots.

This is the design for the front panels…

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the design for the back panels….

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the design for the foot…

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and the completed pair of cowboy boots.

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Research

I’ve been doing research on boot designs.

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Gospel

“The last shall be first” is a rule in boot making too.

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10 rows

I’ve been traveling and don’t have a current project to photograph, but here’s a boot I made not too long ago. This boot has an alligator foot, and the boot tops feature 10 rows of stitching.

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Close-up of 10 rows of stitching

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Here’s visual proof that all of the decorative work in my shop is done on an old single-needle Singer sewing machine.

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It’s a Boot Life

Here’s a link to my YouTube video for October.

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