Johnston and Murphy converted from a glued sole to Blake Stitched with Vibram 700 Cork Soles

[@geopap1965]

Goodevening from Greece!

[@thesharpercoder]

Great, informative video. Now I understand how a Blake Stitch is executed. I use to like Johnston and Murphy until I bought a pair of Allan Edmonds Factory Seconds.

[@vinceburris2538]

Thank you for showing us how the machines work. Love it. Great videos.

[@panzerdragoonss4021]

You have become my favorite cobbler to watch work on KZbin

[@judenowinski4344]

Great job and conversion. I got eastland high fidelity cap toe boots with cement on soles and I wanted them just like you did that pair but my local cobbler refused.good for you. You rock man.

[@JoelzombieThomas]

I love my Nosecone-13, wish I got to use it more often. I think I will clean it up and look into more of it's uses for hammering operations and become more savvy on all it's potential in the shop.

[@bradlarrison191]

I would LOVE to see more conversions like this. I have a shitty pair of Sperry Gold Cup chukka boots with glued soles. There isn’t even a midsole. Just the footbed/lasting board and then a pos lug sole that’s glued on. However, the leather is a 1.8 mm thick chrome tanned tumbled nubuck that feels to be of ok quality. So, knowing that the leather will last, I’d like to convert them to a hand welt. I just don’t quite know how to yet. But I do have most of the cobbling tools I would need. So, conversion videos like this are of great help to me. There just aren’t very many of them that exist.

[@DoctorWessamAtif]

Excellent video. Very Clear and informative. Thank you.

[@Brackmanification]

Thank you for explaining everything, I think it’s really fascinating. Like the music too.

[@mikeogden5256]

Love Your Work

[@hemigod2]

very tough manly music. I put it on loud mode, got up and danced to it, pounded my chest afterward. Hoo yeah

[@gaylecheung3087]

Thinner… sweet great work once again

[@javiervega1065]

Is this the cobbler that just disappeared and left everyone without they're shoes?

[@leemp337]

are newer J&M(last 5 years) worth restoring/resoling with better material? They are always going on sale at dillards, so just curious if better to restore or just replace.

[@cobblerq1]

The solution used to deactivate the glue. Is that turpentine?

[@StealthFX9]

Was converting to Blake/Rapid with a new leather midsole not an option?

[@michaelc9896]

I’d be disappointed. Adding a leather midsole and rapid Blake would have made these boots last a lot longer and look great with the vibrant v bar soles

[@StealthFX9]

@@michaelc9896 Exactly what I thought.

[@BadBart2217]

I believe he explains in another video that there's an issue with stiff midsoles on chelsea boots. If I remember correctly, because of the lack of lacing, the boot has to hug the foot a certain way and stiff sole interferes with that.

[@--SMA]

Impressive!

[@4231magd]

Two questions: On these J&M boots, can you add a leather midsole (on Blake stitching) before you install the outsoles? Also, if the customer requested to, could you have converted these boots to goodyear welted shoes? I'm asking because I have a couple of barely worn J&M shoes that are of the same construction. Thanks!!!

[@eee3400]

what's the composition of the bath liquid?

[@DM-ul5yc]

I'll try to sew mine by hand. Those itallians glue a really nice leather upper onto a leather sole. Why use such expensive materials and slack the sewing?

[@gatriemacleinn1976]

Is this an expensive conversion?

[@vkotis]

I'd be embarassed as a company if I glued soles with fake stitching to some quality looking shoes...especially as an Italian company.

[@nicmart]

Music louder than voice.