I want more Smitty vids. So this is what I did today. I concentrated on making the toe more substantial and the heels. The nail holes all work, angles good but not perfectly in line also a little to close to the inside of the shoe. I am trying to develop an 'eye' and not using marks as a crutch. So I expect to use a lot more bar stock to get those better. But I think it will pay off in the end. Also my branches don't match. But I was imaging a horse with non symmetrical feet. Haha joking. Also I made this for the coffee lady. The coffee lady is very important to me.
I am left handed. When I am making a shoe, I always make the left branch first. This way I can eyeball the finished branch and try to get the right branch to match. This was a little different for me, because to begin with I always did the right branch first as it was the one that turned out the best. Anyway just something that works for me. Also nothing wrong with marking your nail holes on the steel. How can you train your eye if it doesn't know what is right or wrong?
Burned through my first tank went through 15 feet of barstock to get this heel. Har Har. Would show the rest of the shoe but tank dried up.
hahaha... that's the best definition of upsetting or 'bumping up' the toe I've ever heard! and your shoes would benefit greatly from a bit more of it.
I agree. Even the heels would benefit from better "definition." OTOH, maybe Tejun will inspire Plater Forge to try harder since it only took him 15 feet of bar stock to exceed her level of proficiency.
You know how you watch someone on the forums for years and get you get in your head what you think they may look like ...then see a picture of them and its way off from what you thought or had in your head...lol.. Mr Bill Adams fell in that category for me.. he looks like he should be in the south somewhere not California ...but then agian I need to get out more..
Tejun, I take it back a bit... I thought I'd make one and really exaggerate bumping up the toe to show you what I meant - in my hand the toe of this shoe looks pretty beefy but when I put it up on my screen, the toe barely looks the same width as the branches. (this is only the third fullered shoe I've made in ten years, so it ain't Smitty or Scruggs quality...) However, when you rotate it through 90 degrees... on my screen at least, it looks quite different. So yours probably isn't as weak in the toe as it looks on screen, but even so, they can probably still benefit from bumping a fair bit more into the toe.
Tejun just make a heel on a piece of barstock and then cut it off and make another heel repeat process until you fill a 5 gallon bucket, should be good at heels when you get done.
I struggled (and still do) with heels, a guy showed me one thing that clicked so I went home and filled a bucket when I got done they looked like this.
Here is a video by Dan Helton that might help you. View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9QTG6Fh2bo&feature=player_detailpage
Lmao....rick he looks just like him...lol.. you know being from California I had in my head this clean cut guy or this hippy granola eating heath dude... Naa he looks like my peoples ..my neighbors.. I did not even know they sold Camo hats out that way..lol..
Rick and Travis, My Granddad Adams, and many more before him, are from Zebulon, Georgia. So I guess I got roots down South. Tell me what ya'all (a little Southern lingo there) think of that job I showed Tegun.
