I love your videos I did not grow up with a family member being a cobbler only a uncle who owned a shoe factory in costa rica . I still can smell the scent of the hides stack as high as five feet. well with all your videos it has inspired to thinking of persuing to be a cobbler unfortunately ever cobbler in my area isnt willing nor have any info on were I could go to learn. Today march 31 2023 I went to a local one and hinted of wanting to intern for which he was like its a dying field lol I even mentioned your videos and others and he claims to know all of you guys because according to him he is sales rep for cobbler products lol I am not giving up though even if I have to find online videos and purchases shoes off of goodwill I will . thank you for being a inspiration Your works amazing Your one of the few who really loves what they do and has the skill set to do it and the pride not many left with that pride
Hi Steve, nice to see another great video from you (despite your injured thumb). And - what could be nicer in the world than sitting with a good friend and drinking a coffee. Take care!
I love it when you take a break and relax. I don't know why, but it allows me to relax. Miss when you don't give us advice, you have sound advice because you enjoy life.
Great Video Steve, I hope get back to my hometown this summer and maybe I'll get a chance to visit your shop and meet you in person, Take Care my FRIEND!!!
I've been buying and selling shoes for a long time. I've been hoping to run across a pair of Golden Harvests. I think I've sold every Florsheim color except the Golden Harvest. How cool is that? You got 2 pairs. Wow. Thanks for what you do, mate. I've learned more from watching you than just about anywhere else. Awesome, well done brother.
Great watching yr video Steve. A large bunch of Florsheim shoes to go into a betterment’s program. Well done giving yr fans another master class of your work. Cracking result, fantastic looking shoes bud. shine On
I am sorry to see your thumb injured Steve; Glad you healed quickly! You make them much better than the originals out of the factory! Shad Merci and cheers.👞🔨
Steve, it was a sad day in the very early 1980s when I wore off the gold imprint on the bottom of my Florsheim Imperial wingtips. (I still wear these to work!) Seeing you add that back on, and also fixing the French binding, is just tonic for me. I hope your thumb heals completely and quickly. Thanks for yet another awesome video!
We wore either "wing tips" or" penny loafers" (mostly Ivy league apparel) in high school, (south side of Chicago) Steveroo... I had a pair of both in HS... At the same time the Beatles were very popular and so we all went to either Flagg Brothers or Thom McCann and got some Beatle boots or shoes with Cuban heels.... Great time, as we dressed up far more than we do now... I never wore blue jeans to school and either did my classmates.... Different time Steve.... Those Golden Harvest are gorgeous....! Great video and as usual great job, you're the MASTER....! Greg
I enjoy all that you teach us about shoes. The best part is learning about you; how you care about what you do. Your "quirks" (looking at us from the printer, ...) are so enjoyable, I see a bit (or a lot) of me and how I respond to life. Thank you for the knowledge, humor, and love of life.
Hallelujah! Steve is back. These shoes are already excellent considering the materials used and with the patina they're just beautiful. The comfort must be incomparable with all the care given to the details by Doctor Steve. I would love to have a video dedicated exclusively to the different Vibram insoles. An expert's point of view is incomparable. I do a lot of sport (about 50 km of running per week and more than 20 hours of training). I use Vibram soles on Brooks running shoes (which I had fitted by a specialist in the only Vibram shop in Paris) and I always use a hiking shoes with Vibram soles.
March madness is here! Great video. Seems like you learned something too about the pair with the leather gemming. You have an amazing business, you will never be without work because you are so great. I don't care how long your videos are as long as you talk and explain.
OK your shoes look like pieces of artwork. Those mustard colored wing tips were to die for just absolutely gorgeous. I wouldn’t want to wear them. I wouldn’t want to put them on the ground. They should be put on a pedestal. They’re gorgeous. Your attention to detail is spectacular. Sigh.
Sir, I am so glad you have a happy place, we all could wish to be so lucky. Yes I too was watching with amazement at how close that hammer gets to that thumb
Glad your thumb healed so well and so quickly! I've hurt my thumb just as bad (but not with a bell skiver!) and it's amazing how much you use your thumb for everything.
Great video Steve.....you know I love my Florsheims. Which reminds me.....have to get the next pair (Shell Cordovan) in the mail to you. "And hey man, why you triggering me wit dat metal brush on those shoes.....I'm outta here!"
Wauw what a fantastic job you did in this project specially the first pair of shoes and the discovery you did. Love watching you greetings from the Netherlands and be careful with your thumb
I always love to see Florsheims. That white film on the shell is something that happens when shell sits for a long time. It's all the waxes and oils from the tanning process coming to the surface. If you buff the hell out of them, that softens up and absorbs back into the leather. Perfectly normal.
@@BedosLeatherworksLLC ok, that makes way more sense, lol. I was sitting here wondering how you could possibly not be familiar with it with all your years of experience.
They are my shoes. So learning opportunity for me here on using conditioner. What I did was buy these secondhand, and as such I didn’t know the history of them before I had gotten them. So I soaked them in Kiwi Leather Conditioner to hopefully get some moisture back into the shoes. Knowing what I know now, there are better products and ways to condition shoes (Saphir and/or Venetian).
Wanted to moisturize them a bit before sending them in and working on them. Cracking can be a concern on shell, so I figured soak them and let them rest a bit before working on them.
@@Charlesj1989 I used to be a Kiwi man myself before I started watching Steve lol I’m a big fan of Bick 4 conditioner now, it’s not much more expensive than Kiwi but it’s miles better
So essentially, they were compromising little by little eventually culminating on selling fully cemented soles that never really last. Thanks for giving us some insight into the company.
With all those mid-soles and JRs, that's a LOT of leather in that batch of hoof-covers. I'm going to go with mid-soles as well when it's time to have my AEs done. I need that extra support under my hooves. Good seeing that thumb healing up. Blessings brother.
Great job Steve. I cringed in pain when you told us how you injured your thumb. I cut tip of my middle finger years ago and it still is tender... hope you dont have nerve damage..
👍🏾 Again, great craftsmanship, Steve! I really love the open-lace blucher wingtip shoe design. Florsheim, J&M, Allen Edmond, French Shriner (I've owned a few pair of these) and Bostonian, to name a few. They are great candidates for multiple resolings. I just wish I you could give an industrial strength coatin g to cover those beautiful finished soles you showed us! 🤩
You should wrap the bandage tightly with some black electrical tape. It will make the bandage waterproof and will keep the bandage on even with heavy use. Also get the stretch cloth type bandaids. They also make "end of finger" bandages in stretch cloth that cover the end of the finger and also wrap around the finger. Get the finger clean and dry and put on the bandage first then cover it with the electrical tape. I was a heavy mechanic for many years and always had nicks and cuts so like you I had to keep working but if you try this it will keep the bandage on and the cut clean.
Came because the algorithm sent me...saw a flag i liked...and have enjoyed every minute of every video for years now. And i am a woman with guys that think dress shoes are the boots with out the crap all over them or on a really dress up, like weddings, the black tennis shoes.
I so appreciate your work ethic and positive spirit . I will be sending you an email so I can discuss some hand made cowboy boots and some of the reason for different things about them. Best Wishes and Blessings from Oklahoma were we are not afraid of work and joking and have fun while working daylight to dark almost every day ❤
Now this, is a Bedo's video. Awesome work, Steve. I am shocked how many pairs of 60's Imperials are still around. Bell skivers, yikes! I cringe watching your knuckles passing by the edge trimmer.
I love seeing the joy your work brings you. I do wonder though. You ever do a job just a little too well and start thinking, it is my size…. Lol. I gotta email you on an LV duffle bag I inherited. Gotta save up first! Lol.
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I'm Glad you're here Steve. This channel is like therapy to me. Thank you!
"Just a shoe." I just spent an hour watching you give life to shoes. My happy place.
I love the cobbler's cafe. The work on the shoes is gorgeous.
You are really on another level of cobbler craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing! Hope to find one cobbler like you. Wish me luck
I love your videos I did not grow up with a family member being a cobbler only a uncle who owned a shoe factory in costa rica . I still can smell the scent of the hides stack as high as five feet. well with all your videos it has inspired to thinking of persuing to be a cobbler unfortunately ever cobbler in my area isnt willing nor have any info on were I could go to learn. Today march 31 2023 I went to a local one and hinted of wanting to intern for which he was like its a dying field lol I even mentioned your videos and others and he claims to know all of you guys because according to him he is sales rep for cobbler products lol I am not giving up though even if I have to find online videos and purchases shoes off of goodwill I will . thank you for being a inspiration Your works amazing Your one of the few who really loves what they do and has the skill set to do it and the pride not many left with that pride
It all comes down to the brass tacks. Love watching you. You're such an inspiring artist.
Steve, your videos are some of the best on RUclips, if not the best. Many thanks 👍
I never get tired of seeing an artist work. Great videos Steve.
Golden harvest....harvest gold.... every fridge, stove and dishwasher from the 70s. Now i see even shoes....
Hi Steve. Happy to see you back in full swing.
Hi Steve, nice to see another great video from you (despite your injured thumb). And - what could be nicer in the world than sitting with a good friend and drinking a coffee. Take care!
I love it when you take a break and relax. I don't know why, but it allows me to relax. Miss when you don't give us advice, you have sound advice because you enjoy life.
Recently received my shell #8 Alden boots from Steve. Great job and better than new. Thanks for all you do Steve.
Great Video Steve, I hope get back to my hometown this summer and maybe I'll get a chance to visit your shop and meet you in person, Take Care my FRIEND!!!
I've been buying and selling shoes for a long time. I've been hoping to run across a pair of Golden Harvests. I think I've sold every Florsheim color except the Golden Harvest. How cool is that? You got 2 pairs. Wow. Thanks for what you do, mate. I've learned more from watching you than just about anywhere else. Awesome, well done brother.
Great watching yr video Steve. A large bunch of Florsheim shoes to go into a betterment’s program. Well done giving yr fans another master class of your work. Cracking result, fantastic looking shoes bud. shine On
Great video. Beautiful shoes. Thanks Steve for the long video. 👞
I am sorry to see your thumb injured Steve; Glad you healed quickly! You make them much better than the originals out of the factory! Shad Merci and cheers.👞🔨
Never seen Florsheim’s brought to life in this pristine manner! FYI Armenian style ☕️ looked spectacular Coffee Time🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Steve, it was a sad day in the very early 1980s when I wore off the gold imprint on the bottom of my Florsheim Imperial wingtips. (I still wear these to work!) Seeing you add that back on, and also fixing the French binding, is just tonic for me. I hope your thumb heals completely and quickly. Thanks for yet another awesome video!
Love your Passion even after all these years of working on shoes. You? Still love love what you're doing.
Yes I do!
Thank you Steve. Been missing you man. Excellence as always.
That’s the best hour I’ve spent for a long time. Keep em coming Steve, great work.
Beautiful!
Thanks for letting us share your happy place.
We wore either "wing tips" or" penny loafers" (mostly Ivy league apparel) in high school, (south side of Chicago) Steveroo... I had a pair of both in HS... At the same time the Beatles were very popular and so we all went to either Flagg Brothers or Thom McCann and got some Beatle boots or shoes with Cuban heels.... Great time, as we dressed up far more than we do now... I never wore blue jeans to school and either did my classmates.... Different time Steve.... Those Golden Harvest are gorgeous....! Great video and as usual great job, you're the MASTER....! Greg
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I never had a reason to wear suits for work so I never bought Florsheims but I have always liked the look of them. Great restos Steve.
I enjoy all that you teach us about shoes. The best part is learning about you; how you care about what you do. Your "quirks" (looking at us from the printer, ...) are so enjoyable, I see a bit (or a lot) of me and how I respond to life. Thank you for the knowledge, humor, and love of life.
Another one! Outstanding transformations!!!
Your happy place! Your art studio. You create art! Don’t care how long the video is, enjoy watching the process. Thumb looks great.
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you Steve
Awesome work Steve let’s continue 👍
Your amazing 👏🏾 my grand dad had shoes like that i love watching thanks for sharing ❤️ 👍🏾
Hip Hip Hurray Stevo, I'll sleep tonight 🤣🇺🇸 and I'm happy watching ya !
Hallelujah! Steve is back.
These shoes are already excellent considering the materials used and with the patina they're just beautiful. The comfort must be incomparable with all the care given to the details by Doctor Steve.
I would love to have a video dedicated exclusively to the different Vibram insoles. An expert's point of view is incomparable.
I do a lot of sport (about 50 km of running per week and more than 20 hours of training). I use Vibram soles on Brooks running shoes (which I had fitted by a specialist in the only Vibram shop in Paris) and I always use a hiking shoes with Vibram soles.
Love this video. When Steve shows something He has never seen, it's time to pay attention.👍♥
Awesome Steve!! Incredible work!!
Bravo maestro! An advanced course in shoe architecture with results that match the reputation.
Love the long videos!
March madness is here! Great video. Seems like you learned something too about the pair with the leather gemming. You have an amazing business, you will never be without work because you are so great. I don't care how long your videos are as long as you talk and explain.
love your videos and watching you is also one of my happy places. keep up the great work.
OK your shoes look like pieces of artwork. Those mustard colored wing tips were to die for just absolutely gorgeous. I wouldn’t want to wear them. I wouldn’t want to put them on the ground. They should be put on a pedestal. They’re gorgeous. Your attention to detail is spectacular. Sigh.
If there is an Oscar for crafts, you will win on leather category, i watch you from Sudan Africa for last 2 years , onwards 👍
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Beautiful work!! The transformation is amazing!
After seeing your posts on Instagram I’ve been waiting to see this video. Your work is amazing. You have such great attention to detail.
As always, the details and craftsmanship are of highest caliber. Excellent workmanship and quality.
Cheers
Boy you could start a Florsheim museum!
Sir, I am so glad you have a happy place, we all could wish to be so lucky. Yes I too was watching with amazement at how close that hammer gets to that thumb
Beautiful work as usual. Thanks Steve.
Keep friend coming for coffee, nice to see what you are out of the workshop, cuz, your inner peace is reaching lotz of us. Thanx
Glad your thumb healed so well and so quickly! I've hurt my thumb just as bad (but not with a bell skiver!) and it's amazing how much you use your thumb for everything.
IF THE WORLD WAS AS CONTENT WITH ITSELF AS STEVE IS WITH HIMSELF, ..WHAT A WONDER WORLD IT WOULD BE
Quite a Florsheimapalooza you had there, Steve! Fascinating stuff.
Love the longer videos!
A beautiful collection of my favorite dress shoes. Great craftsmanship and restorations. Thanks for the extended video on this mega project.
My compliments Steve, you have the hands of a brain surgeon and the skills of a Renaissance artist, fantastic video and contents ❤
Steve saying "bring back to almost new" is one of the most underrated statements on the interwebz.
We all know good and well it'll be better than new.
Every now and then as tradesman we need reminders that we are just flesh and bone, that need to slow down a bit and focus more. Great video
These all turned out great. Love to see a Florsheim marathon!
Great video! Enjoyed the Cobbler Cafe.
Happy Pi Day my friend! What a wonderful video collection to watch! Cheers!
Nancy
P. S. Loved the Coffee Times!
Steve Florsheims are lovely shoes a few pairs just got made better amazing work ❤️
Great video Steve.....you know I love my Florsheims. Which reminds me.....have to get the next pair (Shell Cordovan) in the mail to you. "And hey man, why you triggering me wit dat metal brush on those shoes.....I'm outta here!"
It's always great work! It was very interesting to see the variations used by the same manufacturer.
Wauw what a fantastic job you did in this project specially the first pair of shoes and the discovery you did. Love watching you greetings from the Netherlands and be careful with your thumb
Hi Stepan, glad to see you again. We've been waiting for your video for so long! What a wonderful hour of watching your work!
@46:20 brass bristles. Softer than steel 👍 gorgeous work
Absolutely Beautiful!
I always love to see Florsheims. That white film on the shell is something that happens when shell sits for a long time. It's all the waxes and oils from the tanning process coming to the surface. If you buff the hell out of them, that softens up and absorbs back into the leather. Perfectly normal.
No it wasn’t blooming. I’m very familiar with that but this was something the customer put on it trying to clean it.
@@BedosLeatherworksLLC ok, that makes way more sense, lol. I was sitting here wondering how you could possibly not be familiar with it with all your years of experience.
They are my shoes. So learning opportunity for me here on using conditioner. What I did was buy these secondhand, and as such I didn’t know the history of them before I had gotten them. So I soaked them in Kiwi Leather Conditioner to hopefully get some moisture back into the shoes. Knowing what I know now, there are better products and ways to condition shoes (Saphir and/or Venetian).
Wanted to moisturize them a bit before sending them in and working on them. Cracking can be a concern on shell, so I figured soak them and let them rest a bit before working on them.
@@Charlesj1989 I used to be a Kiwi man myself before I started watching Steve lol I’m a big fan of Bick 4 conditioner now, it’s not much more expensive than Kiwi but it’s miles better
We are your friends too !! Much love Steve !
So essentially, they were compromising little by little eventually culminating on selling fully cemented soles that never really last. Thanks for giving us some insight into the company.
With all those mid-soles and JRs, that's a LOT of leather in that batch of hoof-covers. I'm going to go with mid-soles as well when it's time to have my AEs done. I need that extra support under my hooves. Good seeing that thumb healing up. Blessings brother.
Great job Steve. I cringed in pain when you told us how you injured your thumb. I cut tip of my middle finger years ago and it still is tender... hope you dont have nerve damage..
A 'like', before I even watched it ...
👍🏾 Again, great craftsmanship, Steve! I really love the open-lace blucher wingtip shoe design. Florsheim, J&M, Allen Edmond, French Shriner (I've owned a few pair of these) and Bostonian, to name a few. They are great candidates for multiple resolings. I just wish I you could give an industrial strength coatin g to cover those beautiful finished soles you showed us! 🤩
Nice work Steve. I love the shoes!
Yaaay for the return of coffee time / cobbler and friend cafe!!
Amazing work! Sorry about your thumb, glad it's better. The shoes just look incredible now. Thank you!
Greetings from Mexico! You are the best.
Awesome work can’t wait to send my shoes to get full Restauration
What a great video, one of your best!! Thank you Sir.
Nice artwork.
Amazing, amazing, amazing!!
You should wrap the bandage tightly with some black electrical tape. It will make the bandage waterproof and will keep the bandage on even with heavy use. Also get the stretch cloth type bandaids. They also make "end of finger" bandages in stretch cloth that cover the end of the finger and also wrap around the finger. Get the finger clean and dry and put on the bandage first then cover it with the electrical tape. I was a heavy mechanic for many years and always had nicks and cuts so like you I had to keep working but if you try this it will keep the bandage on and the cut clean.
Just perfect as always
Fabulous as always thanks for the video sir 👍
Nearly an hour long video a great way to pass time on my day off happy days
Came because the algorithm sent me...saw a flag i liked...and have enjoyed every minute of every video for years now. And i am a woman with guys that think dress shoes are the boots with out the crap all over them or on a really dress up, like weddings, the black tennis shoes.
That coffee looks strong enough to walk out of the cup!
Steve you had me going with that one😂. "If I would have found the Tip of it I would have glued it back on with super glue "😂
I so appreciate your work ethic and positive spirit . I will be sending you an email so I can discuss some hand made cowboy boots and some of the reason for different things about them. Best Wishes and Blessings from Oklahoma were we are not afraid of work and joking and have fun while working daylight to dark almost every day ❤
Now this, is a Bedo's video. Awesome work, Steve. I am shocked how many pairs of 60's Imperials are still around. Bell skivers, yikes! I cringe watching your knuckles passing by the edge trimmer.
I love seeing the joy your work brings you. I do wonder though. You ever do a job just a little too well and start thinking, it is my size…. Lol. I gotta email you on an LV duffle bag I inherited. Gotta save up first! Lol.
WE WOULD HAVE WATCHED FOR ANOTHER HOUR, STEVE.
Stellar work
Outstanding ❤️❤️👍👍👍
the Marine Corps used to call coffee like yours "boiler compound" , sure looks good
As always a great job.
Therapy. Watching the shoe surgeon work
this was a great video 👌👌👌