Shoe Shine Tutorial-Allen Edmonds Strand

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[@JimyLynn]

I never realized that shoe polishing was such an elaborate process. This guy is a craftsman!

[@gauravclient]

same here!

[@supabiscuit]

Same

[@themadhacker9376]

anything worth doing is worth doing well

[@kaic9712]

Colin Ashby I’m a JROTC cadet and I’ve shined my shoes for 20 hours total and they aren’t this shiny but quite close when I use parade gloss and a lightte

[@malikgordon9212]

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[@danjoe22]

Great job - I like how you described what you were using and how you create your magic.

[@JT-vn5nb]

Absolutely beautiful video. Love the angle of the shots, the voice-over narration, and the music. I'd gone and purchased both these shoes (already had on my radar, but this video convinced me to pull the trigger) and a bottle of Bick 4. Thanks so much for the inspiration and instructional tips!

[@nickjene6571]

Who knew shoe shining was an art? This is a whole new level, and the results show it

[@Traymer7]

Lovely! Finally some video which describes whole process! Thank you sir!

[@braveknight283]

I'm right there with you as far as technique goes! I've been getting fantastic results since my navy days of shining my boots to a high mirror shine. My only thing is I've been using standard Kiwi products...I am going to look into some of these products you're using in this video to step my game up. I'm 31, and I have noticed most people around my age have no clue how to shine shoes. A colleague of mine was about to throw his shoes out until I told him I could bring them back to life for him. I gave him a mirror shine and had them looking better than the day he bought them. I think it's important to pass on this information to other generations because shoe shining is becoming a lost art. Thank you SO much for making these videos and sharing your magic with the world.

[@Sonster9K]

Holy MACKERAL!!!! What an incredible skill!!! This is definitely an art!!!

[@kphifer1]

I just found your channel this morning. I am enjoying your videos.

[@paulhughes5446]

Just discovered your channel - great video and really like the relaxing music. Thanks

[@cvc1]

Never saw Strands shine like this.. I have a pair and will definitely purchase these products.. Thanks!

[@rizdog2]

Own two pairs of Strands and two pairs of McAllisters as well. Nothing fits my wide feet like AE's, this was a great tutorial.

[@donlee7028]

Reminds me of my days as an Boy Scout as we had inspection every week and the Scoutmaster had been one of the brylcream boys as Royal Canadian Air Force Officers were known as. Spit and polish and being a gentleman was instilled into us. It has continued to be whom I am these continuing years. It has stood me well both as a military officer myself apart FM my University days and now many years retired. Keep the standard in front of the present generation. Thank you

[@ecurb10]

You always have a lovely choice of music, adds to the ambience.

[@diggingforgold4150]

Best review ever, you saved me with the water at the end now my shoes are shiny, thanks.

[@scottmatthews5892]

MAN this is so relaxing and amazing

[@justfresh3128]

This is very informative. And yes shoeshining is an art and patience is always the key. Great job.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thank you for stopping by.

[@jonathanvilla118]

Because of your channel, I finally purchased my first pair of “higher end” dress shoes and associated Saphir polish items (AE strands in walnut). I can’t wait to get them and polish those beautiful things up!

[@Mason-hs9oz]

How are they!?!

[@ramblin_man23]

Omg what an incredible talent you have.

[@TheDecoCottage]

This reminds me of my dad shining his shoes before big events. I always watched him in fascination as a kid as he waxed an polished them.

[@Z3A2]

Thank you Elegant Oxford! You have taught me how to shine my shoes, and I will make sure I keep my shoes looking sharp!

[@latoso09]

I tried your procedure and it does works. Thank you!

[@nateriesen]

I mirror shined my strands yesterday! Thanks for the tutorials. My shoe game just came up a couple notches

[@TheElegantOxford]

Wonderful!

[@AmritanshuBanerjee]

Damn this video is relaxing

[@TheElegantOxford]

More to come! Stay tuned!

[@ralphdauphin3519]

Yes almost like watching Bob Ross!!

[@dannytong2227]

Great video with nice background music 👍

[@riyadh552]

Excellent video, and superb work!

[@merwinlao46]

Awesome video! Very impressive shoe shine work. I’d love to see more videos from you. I am also interested on how you amazingly restore a pair of seemingly hopeless dead shoes. Thanks 🥂

[@TheElegantOxford]

Merwin Lao thank you! I’m looking for a hopeless pair as we speak to make another video. Stay tuned!

[@slm5292]

Well done. Thanks for putting this up.

[@jeszyandrew419]

Nice background score. your video helped me a lot. Your work is amazing..

[@aaronbrunton5823]

Loving the new videos. Keep it up. 👍🏽

[@jeffrobinson7049]

Awesome shine! I have some new walnut Jeffersons and failed at my first attempt last week. I’m using the exact products you are using so I’m so glad you made this video. I liked and subscribed!

[@TheElegantOxford]

Jeff Robinson my pleasure. Don’t give up! Be patient and don’t lose hope. That mirror shine will come through.

[@shuangwu668]

Thank you. I always loves old well taken cared shoes. I wear female shoes ofcourse, but this is helpful to me as well

[@bgeorgescott]

I just shined my shoes are finding you around a month ago. It was time-consuming and it made me appreciate what you do even more!

[@TheElegantOxford]

That’s awesome! Glad you got to shine them!

[@JosephSpadafino]

You've got a new sub! Looking forward to more. I own two AEs: boubon McAllister, walnut Strand. On Tuesday my dark brown Boulevards will be arriving.

[@Tmanaz480]

I know you say it a lot, but I just have to second the importance of patience when mirror shining. The first time I did it I was about to give up, then I put on one more layer and started to see the shine beginning to emerge. It's a great feeling. Thanks!

[@michaelgoesflying]

Great video, thanks for making!

[@deuceh1906]

Great tutorial. I have these shoes and I will try this.

[@clivemiguel1]

I didn't like this tutorial, I loved it. You raise shoe shining, to an art form... thank you. Saludos from Mexico.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Muchísimas gracias! Saludos ✌🏻

[@eyeheartsushi2212]

Fantastic job! I have subscribed.

[@johnyisfunny1]

It is always relaxing to see you work...

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thanks!

[@maurogarcia6512]

An outstanding video on one of my favorite pair of shoes, the Allen Edmonds Strand in Walnut. Thank you for sharing!

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thanks for watching, this was actually one of my very first videos. Glad people are still watching it all these years later.

[@Williamk492]

So much passion! Subbed 👍🏻

[@jamesthewineguy]

Very good video--I appreciate it so I know what I can do for my own shoes. Thank you!

[@jtrain3113]

Amazingly helpful video .

[@philnewman1110]

Wow! That’s pretty impressive!

[@mpires69]

Great video. Thank you so much for sharing

[@DenyTheZeitgeist]

I’ve always wanted to give that a shot. Maybe not on my boots of course, but if I find a reason to own some proper dress shoes one day, I will return to this very helpful video to make them all the more beautiful.

[@MrBanegasgaleas]

Great job👏🏻

[@seanhuynh5184]

Could watch this guy shine shoes all day!

[@DClaville]

great video thank you. Will have to try cold/ice water, have always used very hot water, since the army and i always use cotton wool last few layers

[@vinucoltean755]

SUPER super nice work

[@harrisoncameronwedgeworth2441]

Very good job! I don’t know if you do this often, but it was an excellent job! I liked your style of video formatting and narrative.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Harrison Cameron Wedgeworth thank you. More to come! Stay tuned.

[@nyflo718]

That's a gorgeous shoe

[@abrahamruiz1977]

You are an artist

[@andrehb]

Great tutorial -- thanks

[@steadfastdriven4472]

Great work id really like my strands to look like this must try.

[@tomnekuda3818]

When I was a USPS ranger many years ago we were expected to have a shine like this every day.

[@englisy6079]

It took me 3 months to learn how to do a proper shine. Now after a year, I still feel I have a lot to learn but here's a secret! Small Layers A pinch of patience :) Basically this video! It was great, it was awesome, it was satisfying

[@nutyyyy]

Same goes for painting as well :)

[@aerial_camera_video_imaging]

Such a classy finish.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@Ginger_Dad]

Please continue to make video's i found it difficult to find good shoe shine videos on youtube. Alot of channels said they were going to come out with series on how to do it but from what i saw none of them actually did.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Kevin Janssen more to come! Filming 2 more videos at the moment.

[@LDacic]

Thank you for the informative video. You've got great shining skills and a solid explanations of each step. Would you bother making a video on cotton chamois? Something along the lines of: "how to make one on your own? how to wrap it around your fingers properly? Dos and don'ts of maintaining one" etc. Cheers!

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thank you. I will definitely make one. Preliminarily, you can cut up a cheap XXL 100% cotton T-shirt into strips to use. It’s the cheapest method I’ve found. As long as it’s 100% cotton, it will work just as good as anything I’ve found.

[@Tmanaz480]

You really build trust with your viewers with answers like these. We can see you genuinely want to share your techniques with us and you're not just hawking products.

[@ashleighjaimaosborne3966]

Beautiful shoes...

[@etelainenleathercraft]

This is a good tutorial because detailing with caption ....we should give tumb's up ...

[@nateriesen]

Keep these videos coming please

[@brianbarnett100]

Great video brother thank you, now comes the practice haha. What do you use for the mirror gloss?

[@FC-sq8vp]

Perfect ! 🔝

[@johnhorner4489]

Thank you. I was able to get a decent mirror shine on my shoes.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Awesome!!!!

[@UsernamesForDummies]

That customer will be exceedingly happy with the result.

[@debrajkab]

thanks for explaining why mirror finish is done only on hard surfaces. i have been a victim of overdoing polishing.

[@classyshoes8504]

great video!

[@laswans.2968]

That's a very handsome pair of shoes! I had never heard of that super shine before. Is that a special wax? I might not have heard what you called it. Sure makes them look beautiful. Stunning!

[@onghochinhvu8611]

Excellent

[@lukecage9836]

I have the Strand too 💚!

[@wesb8159]

I remember putting a good mirror shine on my jump boots every night which it took me a good hour to hour and half. It does take practice. Yes, I was a paratrooper which is why I used jump boots(that was back 30+ years ago).

[@TheElegantOxford]

Awesome!

[@matthewl.5612]

Many Thanks for the video (found through RMRS style group). If you would be so kind to make a video of the more dramatic patinas you make? liked and subbed!

[@TheElegantOxford]

Matthew L. I’m working on a customer order this week. I’ll make sure to make a video and post it soon. Stay tuned!

[@mohtashim92]

Oh man you made my day, can you please add a tutorial to how to clean for the CAT shoes in camel colour.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Syed Mohtashim more videos to come. Stay tuned.

[@sphong0610]

When I was a sergeant in the military I was put in charge of assisting a 3star general and he loved having his shoes polished. If I only knew these secrets back then I could have had a much easier time.

[@fyttirackarn]

Nice!! I Wish shoe repair shops would take more pride in what they do, mostly quick and rough machine buffing that sometimes even damages the shoes.

[@danlociceroify]

Nice!

[@tlockerk]

Cool, you should put links on for those products; (brushes, creams, shoehorns) I'm off to shop now.

[@mihaeldevcic2022]

a beauty

[@coreydostal8185]

Killer video. I really enjoyed it and will be saving it to my shoe shine playlist. Thank you and really looking forward to seeing more videos. I want to learn how to do this and do it well.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Corey Dostal stay tuned. More to come!

[@coreydostal8185]

Awesome!!! I am looking forward to it.

[@everavila6832]

I agree, shoe shinning is an art, a craft.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Thanks! I agree

[@fabipr23]

Love your videos! any suggestions on how to enlarge a bad fitting pair of shoes? Ive seen a very wide variety of options online, but I need the shoe to be wider because of my feet shape, and don't know how to make them look great without damaging the leather! thanks in advance

[@jimnelson128]

They're not Allen Edmonds, but I have a pair of tan Johnston & Murphy coming and i'm going to use this tutorial to get them all shined up.

[@mohdalisyed]

Hi. Great great video. It's as relaxing to watch your video as it is to actually shining my shoes. I have a question. Every shoe shine tutorial misses one important point; that being to allow the wax layer to sit for a while and dry out before you start working it. I have recently started doing it and have found the mirror shine sticks well, stays on the shoe longer and makes the overall process quicker. Is there a reason why nobody tells this in the tutorials? May be there is something I am doing wrong?

[@TheElegantOxford]

Depending on the wax, the method you just mentioned will not always work. I’ve had varying results but no longer let it dry. If it works for you then thats fantastic. Thank you for sharing that tip.

[@47185330]

You should do a collab with the brands you use to make the leather shine

[@maxdominate2481]

@2:38 - Two coats of cream polish. I'll have to remember that. I've been doing one.

[@sirisoj]

because of my ingrown toenails I can't wear shoes for a long time, but it's always nice to find videos with shoes being treated well. They are like dogs, always by our feet.

[@jacob.woodward]

I used to have a very similar problem, see if you can get a foot specialist to remove the edges of your nail down at the nail bed, that’s what mine did to me and I haven’t had a problem since

[@h0001244]

I watched your channel for few months and shine my shoes regularly say once every one or two months. I have a question, do I need to remove the old polish by using renomat or saddle soap every time I do the regular shining? Or just simply apply the renovateur will serve both cleaning and nourishing function?

[@alejandroleal6475]

Very helpful video thank you. After completing this process, is it fine to use bick 4 on top of the previous layers of the saphir shoe cream or do you need to strip the previous polish? Also i don’t really want a mirror shine, is the mirror polish crucial to the shoes durability? Recently purchased my first pair of AE shoes and I’m trying to care for them as best possible, thanks!

[@jfgolf6785]

Can you write and add the links for the products you use in each video? please.

[@aross924]

JF GOLF those products are available on amazon.

[@fernsader9261]

Can you make a video on polishing and pimping out sperry topsiders! That would be awrsome

[@joseantoniomeridadelatorre4866]

Excelent.

[@ung0liant]

I tried my first mirror shine today with pate de luxe on a pair of mezlan quarter brogue bike toe shoes with ostrich leather all the way up and down the vamp to the toe. It was a crushing defeat. maybe I will learn to crawl before trying to run

[@rudrabarathan2737]

WOW!!!!

[@iflyfa18s]

Followed this step by step on my walnut Strands. Maybe my mirror shine layers were too thick, but every brogue hole was filled with wax. I'm not sure how you avoided it. I had to take a toothpick and gently remove the polish from every hole in the toe cap. Thoughts? I also saw some darkening around some of the holes. I'm guessing some water got in, even though I was just tapping my ice cube. I'm hoping they'll disappear if they dry overnight. Thanks, Preston!

[@earlenepeterson8065]

Besutiful

[@jrbluehen35]

legit just bought this shoe

[@harrisoncameronwedgeworth2441]

You also worked up a damn good shine on those with no mirror gloss, and especially on the areas where it doesn’t bend! Does the pommadier crème shine that well?

[@TheElegantOxford]

Harrison Cameron Wedgeworth thank you! The cream does not shine, as far as I know but I’m sure someone’s done it haha. You don’t need mirror gloss for a mirror shine. Regular Saphir wax works great and is much cheaper.

[@dmhibb]

I do the same thing. Shoe shining can be very relaxing.

[@TheElegantOxford]

Great!