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From a Chicken Coop to the Patina Thunderdome: Inside Nicks Handmade Boots
Description
Nicks Handmade Boots makes a few hundred pairs a month, all by hand, and the number of possible boots on their website runs into the millions. For the customer, that means a boot built around your foot, your work, and your taste. For the shop floor, it means almost no two boots are built quite the same way. Today, Nick Jarrett and Lucas Grasberger walk Eli through how one of those boots actually gets made, from raw hide to finished pair.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
Nick & Lucas’ Introduction to Bootmaking (2:02)
The History of Nicks Boots (5:33)
How Boots Are Made (9:12)
Leather Types & Sourcing (12:03)
Boot Lasts, Fit, & Customization (30:34)
Patina & the Thunderdome (46:33)
New Designs & Leather Experiments (50:02)
Expanding Into Leather Goods (55:53)
The Delta Arch insole (58:07)
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