Making my first pair of shoes Oxford PART 3

[@kreksfeks1200]

Lol, satisfaction achieved! i've spent maybe half an hour browsing oxford shoes with a commando sole with your video paused, learned alot of terms. I like your's take much better, because of an appeasing toe and not that *ballerina type, three toes on the foot* style. one question: how the inserts are made so that it feets your number? scanning or molding? It'd been a chaplin's ending, if the whole *werkstatt* collapsed because of that insert flying off

[@Baerenson]

You can buy premanufactured lasts (insert) in various sizes. Also you can choose the style, shape and heel height (heel height is called "Sprengung" in germany). There are last that are preshaped to fit misalignments. From your choosen last you can start and modificate it by adding material such as cork or leather aso. Of course you can take material off the last. That way you can shape the last to a feet. I saw people changing last by adding shapes with epoxy, but iam not a big fan of that. Some month ago, I saw a guy on youtube who made a foam scan of the feet and made a last by pouring some sort of cast resin into a mold. It looked like milk. In my case I took the route with premanufactured lasts and changed them to what I measured. A shoemaker said in a video that a shoe is more of an abstraction of an foot. I like the idea, it gives me more ease in the process not think about perfection. Yeah dissambling the last from the shoe is really hard work. Second part was flying almost against the ceiling across the room.

[@kreksfeks1200]

@@Baerenson Yee, shoemaking seems like an endless pursuit of perfection, easy to get off track