mizestang
New Member
Yea, the cuff and the shaft are separate pieces. I sewed up the back of all the pieces and also made a line of stitch around the hem of the cuff and the edge of the upper. Tooling leather is a natural undyed leather that you can buy in any thickness. You can get it at Tandy leather factory. A word of advice though, I've been a professional leather worker for over a year with years of leather working experience before that and this project has been HARD for me. I'd say one of the hardest things I've ever attempted. I don't know why the general opinion of boot modding is "oh yea, it's pretty easy." It's not. The exaggerated shape of my base boots didn't help, I'm sure.
The upper pattern is just by eye. It took a lot of guess work to figure that one out, and it took effort to make it line up properly while gluing it down just because the leather has to stretch to such a huge degree to get around the sides. From now on I'll just buy leather and boot soles and make the damn things from scratch, it'll be a heck of a lot easier.
Now I know why your work is so good! I wondered why you were so good at leather work. hehe.
Well, I'm not sure how I can do, but I'm giving it a try. Here's a few pics of where I started and where I am at now.




