Tag Archives: bespoke

I’ve been at a last making class at Lastmaking House in Eastbourne, England. These are my classmates and we all look happy because we’ve successfully completed our lasts. Last making class with (from left to right) Anna, Anne Marika, Lisa, … Continue reading →

If you’d like to see the boots I made for the Malpass Brothers on stage during a Country Family Reunion cruise, check out my YouTube video this month. “It’s a Boot Life”

It was a good day today at Lastmaker House in Eastbourne, England, learning about last making. The last on the left is the one I worked on today. If you look closely you can see that it’s beginning to have … Continue reading →

From today’s mail… I expect to be referred to in this manner from now on.

We were on a cruise last week. Dale attended a nature lecture in Honduras and brought me back a half dozen wild pig bristles. He knows me so well–that’s way better than roses!

Title: “It Hurts Me More (the Second Time Around)” I chose this title because these boots are a reproduction of boots that the Louvin Brothers wore in a photo shoot in the late 1950s. So this is the “second time … Continue reading →

On my YouTube video this month, I show how I create a boot top pattern from the client’s measurements. It’s a Boot Life

I’m starting to build heels today, one… layer… at… a… time.

It is such a wonderful feeling to have two pairs of soles on the boots and stitched. Boot making usually goes quickly now.

These two pairs have had the steel shank laced to the boot. Tomorrow, shank covers and then soles.