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Those are fantastic! Excellent work! I bet you're glad you went with the specs now aren't you?
I anticipate a Conversion Corral for shoes will spring up from this thread.
Works out great,if your married you just tell the Mrs.that you have buy new clothes to match your shoes,they don't understand buying a new hat but they sure will understand that, again real nice job on the shoes.Funnily enough, I don't really like brown shoes either!
It is for that reason that I never bought a pair of brown shoes and probably never would have at full price.
Before the 'acetone incident', they were in very good condition and they fit me well, so I didn't want to pass them up considering the low sticker price despite the fact that I couldn't see myself wearing them much.
Now I've made them into spectators I like them much more, and I'm now looking for excuses to wear my brown shoes!
Reminds me of a quote"When you're trying somethin new the fewer people that know about it the better"I own maybe 25 pairs of brown shoes or boots, but as I seem to be in the same company that brown just does not appeal as much as other colors for foot ware.
After your shoes have been dyed and worn a period of time, and you have polished them with either the wax polish or a cream, that will seal the leather up some enough that you can be safe to use mink oil or any other conditioner right on them. I have used a top coat on a few pairs of shoes that I used some white shoe coloring on, to seal it up. I am not so sure it worked as well as just leaving the dye alone and waiting for the dye to cure a bit and then applying some cream polish to?
I agree with what has been posted here, we should have a thread and have all this moved to "shoe conversion"! Perhaps a bartender reading this can do that for us? I hope so!!!
I find it really nice to be able to rework shoes and have them look better. Sharing information on this is very helpful to know. I have learned so much about hats and leather since being on the Fedora Lounge, seems the spirit of being willing to take the challenge to craft things at home, gives me at least the courage to do so. Not everything I have attempted to do works for me, but to learn what NOT to do always helps me find a way to do what will work!
Your shoes look really great! Good job! Thanks for the pictures, too!
Reminds me of a quote"When you're trying somethin new the fewer people that know about it the better"
It was actually posted to LMH2 but I'm glad it all worked out for you.Yes indeed!
I would have kept this quiet until I had finished had I not been sure of the outcome of the dye job
Of course, I scuppered myself somewhat with the whole mink oil problem, but it turned out alright in the end, so no egg on my face
It was actually posted to LMH2 but I'm glad it all worked out for you.
LMH2 it was just a quote from a book,not meant as anything in particular if I couldn't ask for help I still would be trying to figure out the G chord on my guitar(haha)You are correct in many ways, but then you know, sharing at times sure is a way to learn even when we do make a boo boo on something we are doing. Geez I recall thinking I could work a hat with ease with a professional hat stretcher, those machines that are electric and the entire hat is shoved over....I found out I was not ready to mess with my hats yet, and made a mess of one nice hat...if I would have came to ask for some direction I may have not ruined a nice hat. I respect what you state however. It just is great to see things being done as a progressive work. The two tone shoes look very nice. Nice job done on them.