Interesting Youtube Video On Custom Shoes

[benlilly1]

Thought some of you would like seeing this video.

[EquusCustomLeathers]

Cool video! Thanks for sharing

[electrathon]

Very interesting. The guy is in Portland too. I will have to go and try to talk to him.

Aaron

[benlilly1]

Very interesting. The guy is in Portland too. I will have to go and try to talk to him.

Aaron

Aaron, I thought this would catch your eye! Also on his website are interesting links and if I understand right he teaches shoe making classes also.

[electrathon]

Aaron, I thought this would catch your eye! Also on his website are interesting links and if I understand right he teaches shoe making classes also.

I saw that he is teaching. Very expensive, but he has classes broken down into smaller segments and it may be possible to afford.

[electrathon]

I went in and talked to the guy today. Interesting place. It is upstairs in the Union Station building. Almost unmarked shop. Very little equipment and sparse inventory. He has a very nerdy Portland personality (I doubt he has a car, rather a bike). Makes shoes that look like what you would expect to see in an early 1900's shop. The fit and finish was on the crude side, you can see that in the video. His sewing looks nice. He seemed very proud of the slow turn around (his shop is about 4 blocks from one of the largest leather suppliers on the west coast, but is says he orders hides one at a time from Italy).

He was friendly and talked to me for about 20 minutes or so. Interesting place but I don't think he is moving too much work out of the shop.