tropicalbob
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Cheers to you and all the best. You might want to think about engineer boots: look at the prices Role Club is getting for his creations and repairs.Thanks for the warm welcome deadlyhandsome.
Yes, i started designing my own boots a while ago as noone here in my country made anything close to what i wanted as a boot freak, and importing foreign designer boots was getting much more expensive than what i could financialy endure...lol.
It all started as a way of getting the boots i wanted, but slowly became a little boot making company as people loved what i was wearing.... it is called "COFRADIA BOOT MAKERS".
I sell a little , but i do and i only make what people ask me to do, i dont have a stock to sell.
At first, i just designed them and i gave the designs to shoemakers so they built them for me....... After many failed attempts regarding how "SMART" they were (poor materials and build, not the metal accesories or eyelets i asked for, not the leather, sole or shoe shape i wanted, etc) , i started learning the process myself and OMG!.... surprisingly it was not that hard ... at all!..... (at least for me).
The first thing i learned is that the most important thing in shoemaking if you really want to get the shoe shape you want is the LAST!.... so i learned how to design and mill my own lasts... it was very easy for me as i had been a digital 3d animator for more than 20 years now, so i could easily model a last in a 3d program exactly as i wanted.
Now that the boots were going to have the shape i wanted, i needed to learn the rest of the process, and i have been doing that ever since..... i easily learned the cemented construction process, but i figured there were much better ways of attaching the sole to the upper, so i learned the Blake construction process (using a McKay stitcher to stitch the insole to the upper) that generates a much better quality boot than just cementing and now , im becoming really good at good year welting.... no machines, by hand!.... much slower, but MUUUCH BETTER!.
I am slowly getting where i wanted to be and i am proud of what i have achieved until now...... i will update this info as i become a bespoke bootmaker... my goal.
Anyway, i only design and make shoes as a plan b, as i am a digital animator and i make a living as an animator..... making boots is my AWESOME hobbie.
I will be regularly posting pics of all my boots.... those i´ve designed and made and those i´ve bought and i love.
Thanks for your kind answer and your nice apreciation of my work.