Education
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Or at least, a baseline. My body aches. A lot of people don’t understand how physically taxing it can be as a Bootmaker. Particularly in…
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I’m looking at you, boot nerds. My sewing machine handwheel finally arrived. Well actually, two did and four more are on their way. Because my…
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Wait, wait, just hear me out first. Outstation boots are built with cemented soles. That is, the leather midsole is stitched to the rubber slipsole,…
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It’s about flow of conversation. Sewing machine still sitting idle, the handwheel hasn’t arrived from my manufacturer yet. In the end, I started sourcing handwheels…
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Regardless if they’re pretty or not. I once had a customer who was new to heritage boots. Actually on second thought, this is most of…
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Kind of, but kind of not. It’s interesting being a bootmaker in Asia, because the perception from a lot of the public is very different…
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Repeat again. And again. And again. I do a lot of expectation management as a bootmaker. Arguably more than any corporate job, whether you believe…
