Excellent job. Just a tip for any of your viewers who are thinking of buying Crockett and Jones or Tricker’s footwear - they can be a little snug, particularly for slip-on styles. It’s worth paying attention to the size guides on their websites as they may recommend going a half size up from normal. Crockett actually include instructions to measure feet and if customers are unsure, they suggest sending them the measurements for them to advise.
Slip on styles need to fit a little snug. Once they stretch you can't just do the laces up a little tighter so they should initially be tighter than a lace-up shoe or a boot.
Why would I love your work? It’s mad. Maybe because my wife’s family, in the Victorian era, were shoe and boot makers from Kettering in Northamptonshire. Keep it up, Steve.
Always consummate results from the master craftsman. If you want boots to present themselves as quintessential British with uppers bar non then they deserve leather footbed solid shanks and a midsole of quality leather and an outsole FM JR along with solid brass toe plates split welts and leather stacked heels with brass nail flourish and darkened brown leather and artisan stamps! Bedo...Steve...you represent the cobbling craft and leather works repair to the Grand Master Level....you should be a member in the British Guild. Or perhaps there should be a Utube Guild for Cobblers. You have my vote for first class standards and execution. Thanks for the Video. The boots are fit for an Officer and a gentleman!
Well, I'm VERY upset that you used a new utility knife blade.....you deprived me (and yourself) of triggering people and having them lose their minds.LOLOL. Great fix on the boots!! Have a great day my friend.
Great job, another fantastic video. You are getting real good with the camera. Those closeups of that ramp on the toe so the machine would not get stuck were awesome. Another example of the amazing things you can do and how your experience has made you the expert that you are.
Steve, I'm from the UK I have a pair of crockett and jones and their repair shop at the factory told me this cannot be done to my shoes that they made unbelievable. Keep up the great work.
Great work Steve…loved the shirt & tie in the teardown stage. Grateful that you showed the little ramp to stich over the cut out for the French tips. Gerry
Steve: The small 'ramp' when stitching is exactly why I love this channel. Innovation or problem solving is key to any successful business or project. Very clever. Simple solution. Thanks.
I've got the second winter season on my Danners that you recrafted. They are holding up wonderfully. I would have been on my second recraft from the Danner's shop. It was well worth the wait. It's such a joy to lace them up every morning. Hammer Time!
Steve, cold water is use for inflammation while hot water or heat is used for blood flow and helps the bodies muscles relax, according to my family doctor.
Steve,you are really an excellent craftsman, you pay full attention to the repairs, making an extra effort to make the repair really high-quality. Congratulations, you are truly an outstanding example of someone who loves his job and at the same time knows the job inside out. If by any chance you read the comments, best regards and keep it up.
Mr. Bedo, Steve I am from Oklahoma and have enjoyed your RUclips videos for over a year. I will be 71 this year when you release a new video I will talk Cowboy boots with you and people who follow you on RUclips. Best wishes and blessings for your videos you’re my favorite of the few I follow, Sincerely Doc ( nickname from Vietnam service)
Great video of you upgrading those boots. I was surprised that you were nervous about stitching the soles considering your level of expertise. It's actually nice to hear you admitted that to your audience rather than playing it cool. Thanks.
Those are some really beautifully made boots and by changing the size to fit the customers wider foot along with the awesome dyed JR soles and brass tips just put these over the top SPECTACULAR!!! TYFS
The uppers of these boots looks just like my father's RAF 1960s boots. I mean, identical! He used to spit and polish the toe caps until they looked like glass. I seem to remember he used a hot spoon... 🤔🙄😳 Great video. 😁
If the Rapid-E is a "crapshoot", what dictates when you use it over another machine? Does it do a better job on certain soles, or jobs? I imagine you have a reason for sticking with it? Cheers
Happy to see you work on a pair of C&J and that they're put together reasonably. I spent a long while trying to figure out a good middle ground with shoes and have am very happy with this brand. Have bought many pairs. They become comfortable quick, price point is ok and the service in their main London shop is very, very good. This would be my #1 British shoe brand recommendation. I have the same pair of Coniston and would recommend them. The only thing is that this pebble grain leather may not be the best for a shaft as it never really becomes super soft, so it takes a long while in the beginning to make the shaft a bit pliable and not awkward walking down stairs.
Well that's cheered me up. In bed suffering from Civic, yes it's still about. Wasn't sure it was possible to add value to high quality boot, but you certainly show high quality hand work can do that
As far as the stress in your fingers or hands during sewing, you might want to soak your hands or place them in a heated moist hand towel for a few minutes ( 10 min) it can help to relax the muscles & tendons. Then you can exercise your fingers and hands, gently. Then again if there is swelling then you can try COOL water soak for few minutes. See which feels better. BTW don’t think I’ve ever seen you with a tie on. You look very distinguished & handsome. The boots turned out fantastic. Love the fact that they were made out of QUALITY material.
Beautiful job, really amazing. My 13yo CJs have gradually gone from width E to G over the years. If I knew then what you can do I would have send them to you immediately 👍👍👍
As always a great job. I'm very impressed on your telephone ediquete.on requesting for Time and waiting for a response before putting the phone on hold..as a former customer service manager.i seen it to often where I'm asked to hold and before I can say anything they just put me on hold..shows me that they don't really care.. again great job.nice to seeing someone putting pride in his work.
I aways wondered what was the outcome of that competition! Congrats on winning "the gold"; did you do a follow-up video? As always, fantastic job, Steve! 👍💞
Great work as always Steve. I really love Crockett and Jones products, it's always great the rare times you have them on the channel. Nice to see the internal materials quality is still top notch in them
I always adore your skill, I have a shoe that is my footbed is nearly torn, I've wearing for almost 10 years, and i don't want to throw away, I love the shoes very much, but I'm a poor guy I can't pay for the repair, so I'm in dilemma, can you fix it for free ?
Steve I love crocket and Jones shoes a great English quality shoe company as are many others a great repair as always the c&j brogues I had in 82 lasted till 2002 then not knowing a cobbler and the fact you could send them back to the factory for repair I dumped them in the trash 😢 and started again 😮
That's beautiful clean work Steve... and all planned to succeed. Doing my brother's C&J cap toes next, resole, re-heel and sand down some cracks that the previous owner probably caused by only using wax... and caking it on the vamps! They have thick horrible Toppy type things on the outsoles at the moment that ruin the look and function of the shoe. I'd imagine the outsoles were shot so these abomination were stuck on.
You warm your hands before working and ice afterwards. You want the fingers and joints warm before you start and you ice to prevent swelling afterwards to start the recovery process.
So help us understand the point of this job...Was it a case of the customer screwing up fit and not wanting to put the total cost of a new pair and sucking up the cost of this labor? It looks great. That was some impressive free hand razor blade trimming on the toe tips.
I’ve seen these boots posted by you on one of the facebook shoe groups, looks incredible. Just a question from your experience does stretching shoe width affect last shape? and how many millimetres do you think it’s possible to stretch the width of the shoe. Thanks. And I mean using cobblers show stretcher.
No it doesn’t change the shape. Usually you can’t tell they are stretched until you put them on. Depending on the leather some stretch easily then others, maybe a few sizes
Can it been done in reverse where it goes from 3E to a D size? See me and my dad got these Florsheim LEXINGTON Wingtip Loafer I had to get 3E because I was reaching 300 lbs but now I am on the road to losing weight I am down to 223 lbs at 5' 5" and with that my feet got smaller. Funny thing is my foot length stayed the same 10 but my width got smaller. I hate to toss these away
Incredible craftsmanship at work as we have now come to expect but why did someone buy some boots that didn’t fit in the first place? Even mail order items are returnable.
That's my size too LOL. I don't think I love any boots enough to pay to do this though. They must be real favorites. But how did they get that way if they hurt his feet? The chicken and the egg... In my case, Propet boots' last in 9EEE fits me perfectly.
It’s pretty awesome how you’ve kind of backed your way into being a fully skilled shoe maker over the years. I know, I know “I only do repairs.” 😛
I like that you always apologize for being so busy. I always say...cry when the phone doesn't ring...not when it does. Another beautiful job.
Excellent job. Just a tip for any of your viewers who are thinking of buying Crockett and Jones or Tricker’s footwear - they can be a little snug, particularly for slip-on styles. It’s worth paying attention to the size guides on their websites as they may recommend going a half size up from normal. Crockett actually include instructions to measure feet and if customers are unsure, they suggest sending them the measurements for them to advise.
The last shape can behave a bit different depending on the style with CJ. Im a 9.5 in boots and derbies but had to have a loafer in a 10..
Slip on styles need to fit a little snug. Once they stretch you can't just do the laces up a little tighter so they should initially be tighter than a lace-up shoe or a boot.
@@ahpadt same thing here, I have 9.5 Grasmere but just sent them back because they are too small. Just tried a pair of Coniston and 9.5 was perfect
Why would I love your work? It’s mad. Maybe because my wife’s family, in the Victorian era, were shoe and boot makers from Kettering in Northamptonshire. Keep it up, Steve.
Thank you for sharing your families history. People understand one another better when you can appreciate each culture.
Always consummate results from the master craftsman. If you want boots to present themselves as quintessential British with uppers bar non then they deserve leather footbed solid shanks and a midsole of quality leather and an outsole FM JR along with solid brass toe plates split welts and leather stacked heels with brass nail flourish and darkened brown leather and artisan stamps! Bedo...Steve...you represent the cobbling craft and leather works repair to the Grand Master Level....you should be a member in the British Guild.
Or perhaps there should be a Utube Guild for Cobblers.
You have my vote for first class standards and execution. Thanks for the Video. The boots are fit for an Officer and a gentleman!
Everytime I watch theses videos I am surprised everytime how much is involved in construction of shoes
Well, I'm VERY upset that you used a new utility knife blade.....you deprived me (and yourself) of triggering people and having them lose their minds.LOLOL. Great fix on the boots!! Have a great day my friend.
Good work!
Great job, another fantastic video. You are getting real good with the camera. Those closeups of that ramp on the toe so the machine would not get stuck were awesome. Another example of the amazing things you can do and how your experience has made you the expert that you are.
Steve, I'm from the UK I have a pair of crockett and jones and their repair shop at the factory told me this cannot be done to my shoes that they made unbelievable. Keep up the great work.
Those boots are true works of art, Steve!
Great work Steve…loved the shirt & tie in the teardown stage. Grateful that you showed the little ramp to stich over the cut out for the French tips. Gerry
I loved that he shows us all those amazing tips and tricks of his trade!!! It really demonstrates how much of a professional Steve really is IMHO.
Great job as always man!! Thanks to show us all your videos.... they're addictive. I follow you from Spain.
Steve: The small 'ramp' when stitching is exactly why I love this channel. Innovation or problem solving is key to any successful business or project. Very clever. Simple solution. Thanks.
I've got the second winter season on my Danners that you recrafted. They are holding up wonderfully. I would have been on my second recraft from the Danner's shop. It was well worth the wait. It's such a joy to lace them up every morning. Hammer Time!
Steve, cold water is use for inflammation while hot water or heat is used for blood flow and helps the bodies muscles relax, according to my family doctor.
Steve,you are really an excellent craftsman, you pay full attention to the repairs, making an extra effort to make the repair really high-quality. Congratulations, you are truly an outstanding example of someone who loves his job and at the same time knows the job inside out. If by any chance you read the comments, best regards and keep it up.
Mr. Bedo, Steve I am from Oklahoma and have enjoyed your RUclips videos for over a year. I will be 71 this year when you release a new video I will talk Cowboy boots with you and people who follow you on RUclips. Best wishes and blessings for your videos you’re my favorite of the few I follow, Sincerely Doc ( nickname from Vietnam service)
Another one! Steve, the customer put the boots in the right hands. Your craftsmanship is unbelievable.💪🏼👊🏼🤙🏼
Great video of you upgrading those boots. I was surprised that you were nervous about stitching the soles considering your level of expertise. It's actually nice to hear you admitted that to your audience rather than playing it cool. Thanks.
Didn’t know you could resize shoes! Good to know! Nice looking boot! Hugz, Tree
Very nice to see new boots of good construction and good materials. Witness marks are key for alignment on re-assembly. Very nice work there Kemosabe.
wow a new blade!!!!!
Those are some really beautifully made boots and by changing the size to fit the customers wider foot along with the awesome dyed JR soles and brass tips just put these over the top SPECTACULAR!!! TYFS
Loving the green stitches, my man! Great work!
You are a true cobbler. A craft that is going away. Keep it up.
Looking mighty dapper with your tie at the beginning of the episode Steve!
Loved and missed the hammertime ornament!!
The uppers of these boots looks just like my father's RAF 1960s boots. I mean, identical! He used to spit and polish the toe caps until they looked like glass. I seem to remember he used a hot spoon... 🤔🙄😳
Great video. 😁
Another amazing job Steve
Beautiful work as always Steve
Beautiful job Steve!
If the Rapid-E is a "crapshoot", what dictates when you use it over another machine? Does it do a better job on certain soles, or jobs? I imagine you have a reason for sticking with it? Cheers
It’s just me, I get nervous using it. My other one was acting up so that why I used the E
Nice boots. Thanks for talking us through the process of resizing them.
Yet again you knocked it out of the park. Great project Steve, those great looking boots are solid for years of wear. Shine on.
What a great job. This is what ARTISANS do. Outstanding!
Happy to see you work on a pair of C&J and that they're put together reasonably. I spent a long while trying to figure out a good middle ground with shoes and have am very happy with this brand. Have bought many pairs. They become comfortable quick, price point is ok and the service in their main London shop is very, very good. This would be my #1 British shoe brand recommendation. I have the same pair of Coniston and would recommend them. The only thing is that this pebble grain leather may not be the best for a shaft as it never really becomes super soft, so it takes a long while in the beginning to make the shaft a bit pliable and not awkward walking down stairs.
I was holding my breath with that Rapid E right along with you.
Well that's cheered me up. In bed suffering from Civic, yes it's still about. Wasn't sure it was possible to add value to high quality boot, but you certainly show high quality hand work can do that
Hope you feel better
What? A Honda ran into you?
As far as the stress in your fingers or hands during sewing, you might want to soak your hands or place them in a heated moist hand towel for a few minutes ( 10 min) it can help to relax the muscles & tendons. Then you can exercise your fingers and hands, gently. Then again if there is swelling then you can try COOL water soak for few minutes. See which feels better. BTW don’t think I’ve ever seen you with a tie on. You look very distinguished & handsome. The boots turned out fantastic. Love the fact that they were made out of QUALITY material.
Beautiful job, really amazing. My 13yo CJs have gradually gone from width E to G over the years. If I knew then what you can do I would have send them to you immediately 👍👍👍
Thanks Steve. Beautiful Boots. Love the Triumphs
As always a great job. I'm very impressed on your telephone ediquete.on requesting for Time and waiting for a response before putting the phone on hold..as a former customer service manager.i seen it to often where I'm asked to hold and before I can say anything they just put me on hold..shows me that they don't really care.. again great job.nice to seeing someone putting pride in his work.
Awesome job as always. 😊
"Hey man, whyd you start filming your work? Love the videos. Thanks for the entertainment.
I absolutely love those boots. Great job once again from the master craftsman himself.
I aways wondered what was the outcome of that competition! Congrats on winning "the gold"; did you do a follow-up video? As always, fantastic job, Steve! 👍💞
OMG, they look like an absolutely brand new pair!!! Gorgeous!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Looking really good. Nice job!
Great work as always Steve. I really love Crockett and Jones products, it's always great the rare times you have them on the channel. Nice to see the internal materials quality is still top notch in them
Beautiful work, Steve.
I always adore your skill, I have a shoe that is my footbed is nearly torn, I've wearing for almost 10 years, and i don't want to throw away, I love the shoes very much, but I'm a poor guy I can't pay for the repair, so I'm in dilemma, can you fix it for free ?
Hey man....what a beautiful job, better than new, wow!
Nice tie.
Awesome vid, nice boots!
Great work as always Steve. I wish I wore my shoes more that way they'd wear out and I could send them too you again. 😅
Looking good as always
We live 20 miles from Northampton ,my wif worked for Frank alright shoes in Kettering a long time ago
Great job , Steve😊
Looking sharp. Another amazing job. Thanks for taking us along.
I like it when you comment, good or bad parts of a shoe. I enjoy your program.
Steve I love crocket and Jones shoes a great English quality shoe company as are many others a great repair as always the c&j brogues I had in 82 lasted till 2002 then not knowing a cobbler and the fact you could send them back to the factory for repair I dumped them in the trash 😢 and started again 😮
That's beautiful clean work Steve... and all planned to succeed. Doing my brother's C&J cap toes next, resole, re-heel and sand down some cracks that the previous owner probably caused by only using wax... and caking it on the vamps! They have thick horrible Toppy type things on the outsoles at the moment that ruin the look and function of the shoe. I'd imagine the outsoles were shot so these abomination were stuck on.
Good job!! Lets continue!
This was beautiful work. Crockett's are one of our best shoemakers frankly.
All that, and wearing a tie.....class😁
Love the tie
Those are wicked sick boots! Awesome job Steve!
Great Job! I have a pair of Thursday Vanguard boots that could use a similar refit.
Buy a new pair.
Is the heel base made of cardboard?
I just picked up my Grant Stones you guys put French tips on and I'm very happy with the work!
thank you i appreciate you being so patient.
You warm your hands before working and ice afterwards. You want the fingers and joints warm before you start and you ice to prevent swelling afterwards to start the recovery process.
love your videos
nice outfit with the tie. 👌
Awesome work as usual Steve please continue 👍.
Great job 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I would like a pair of Crockett & Jones. I am dreading late spring / summer though, as I'll have to stop wearing my boots as much.
Great work, very therapeutic to watch you work your skills.
Hi Steve, what about making a shoe/boot more narrow?
Those are awesome!
Steve use's a fresh blade? What is this world coming to?😰😅😰😅 Great transformation.
This the craft id like to learn as a second job.
Great Stuff El Stevo!!
That's perfect.
really nice indeed, lovely job!
Did he show how they were widened?
Hey man😃. Hey Steve where do you buy your footbed leather?? It's been hard for me to find the thickness I want. 4.5mm is to thick for me lol
So help us understand the point of this job...Was it a case of the customer screwing up fit and not wanting to put the total cost of a new pair and sucking up the cost of this labor? It looks great.
That was some impressive free hand razor blade trimming on the toe tips.
Steve you are an awesome cobbler, and cute to "boot" pun intended.
I’ve seen these boots posted by you on one of the facebook shoe groups, looks incredible.
Just a question from your experience does stretching shoe width affect last shape? and how many millimetres do you think it’s possible to stretch the width of the shoe. Thanks. And I mean using cobblers show stretcher.
No it doesn’t change the shape. Usually you can’t tell they are stretched until you put them on. Depending on the leather some stretch easily then others, maybe a few sizes
Let's continue 👍
Looked great
Can it been done in reverse where it goes from 3E to a D size? See me and my dad got these Florsheim LEXINGTON
Wingtip Loafer I had to get 3E because I was reaching 300 lbs but now I am on the road to losing weight I am down to 223 lbs at 5' 5" and with that my feet got smaller. Funny thing is my foot length stayed the same 10 but my width got smaller. I hate to toss these away
E mail bedos@yahoo.com
Incredible craftsmanship at work as we have now come to expect but why did someone buy some boots that didn’t fit in the first place? Even mail order items are returnable.
how long have you been doing this craft sir? i admire your dedication.
All my life
Hi Steve… have you worked on a “Trickers stow boot “ before?? How’s the “hidden” build quality .. ( Hey man… love you man)
It’s a good quality boot
Very nice job! Is there a reason why you used the Rapid E machine instead of the usual Landis L this time? The thickness, the welt width?
My L is acting up
@@BedosLeatherworksLLC Oh that's bad news. Hope you'll get it fixed.
That's my size too LOL. I don't think I love any boots enough to pay to do this though. They must be real favorites. But how did they get that way if they hurt his feet? The chicken and the egg... In my case, Propet boots' last in 9EEE fits me perfectly.
Can you make a EEE into an E or 9.5 into a 9?