Not your normal Dudes

[DustinSmith]

Making myself a pair of Hey Dude shoes toppers, getting tired of seeing the same floral designs over and over so decided to do something different for myself, the shoes are dark grey, should I dye the backgrounds or just antique and go with it? 

[maxdaddy]

Very cool. Can't wait to see the final product. 

[chuck123wapati]

the work is awesome as is all your stuff but splain to me what they are. I'm an old fart.

[DustinSmith]

Just some comfortable shoes

[chuck123wapati]

6 minutes ago, DustinSmith said:

Just some comfortable shoes

ahh ok i have a couple pairs of them old dudes myself. lol That makes them look great indeed!! 

[spacedog]

Nice work. Those are great.

[DustinSmith]

[Somiskid]

14 hours ago, DustinSmith said:

I have a couple questions.

1. do you supply the dudes or do people send them to you?

2. How much do you charge?

3. what oz leather do you use? 

[DustinSmith]

1 hour ago, Somiskid said:

I have a couple questions.

1. do you supply the dudes or do people send them to you?

2. How much do you charge?

3. what oz leather do you use? 

1. I do it both ways depending on whether the customer already has some, I prefer to supply the shoes because working with new ones is better than working on someone's stinky shoes haha however I make it clear that if I order them the shoe size they request there are no refunds or returns if the don't fit

2. Depends on the design but between 150 and 200

3. I use 4-5 oz leather, anything thicker is too stiff and anything thinner doesn't tool deep enough 

[Bruce H]

Your tooling...Wow, Spot on if you ask me. Nice Work!

[JayEhl]

LOL, I didn't know what Hey Dude shoes toppers were, either!  Now that, is a niche market to get into and appears to be profitable and fun.  Looking at my pair of canvas slip on shoes I think, that would make a fun weekend project.  And like others said already, your tooling is very well done and I dig the theme.