Love the longer content. It would be nice to have more of these videos in the future.

I had Simon over for dinner with some friends and somehow he managed not only to talk about shoemaking for several hours, but all the other guests with absolutely captivated by Simon's knowledge and passion. We didn't finish till 2am that night. Good times!

@monkeypawism

Ай бұрын

"Somehow" 😆

@zhenxinraysong3846

Ай бұрын

I had a look at new derby in the store. It’s beautiful, well balanced last and well made with 360 storm stitches. I love it so much. Wondered if you would do a chukka with this last. What do you think, Mark?

@markchodotcom

12 күн бұрын

@@zhenxinraysong3846 That's a great idea ... it takes a while for us to develop these but we'll do one eventually!

the Oscar Peterson story is incredible!

@lehlogonolomashego929

Ай бұрын

I agree. Love Oscar

A fascinating conversation! Would like to see more of their workshop

Amazing video, so important to keep craft like this alive. Would love to see more of the workshop too

Well, I never knew Canons was the continuation, sort of, of F&Co. I've taken up bottoming as a hobby in my 50s.... I've done it so I can restore British made goodyear welted shoes that I couldn't justify the cost new, for my own use.(I only need an upper whose leather is still decent) And, I love doing it! I'm picking up tips and tricks from the Net and looking at the bottoming work done on bespoke/higher end shoes...guess how it's done, and apply it. Seeing that Simon learned the who (basics) craft in a few years with Terry from F&Co makes me wish I done similar. Maybe I could rent a tent in London and have a second, MUCH more satisfying career, I only want to 'make' , not buy the whole show. Well done Simon, hat tipped to you sir. Thank you for this wonderful video.

@richardichard4237

Ай бұрын

Might be a good idea not to start conversations in the pub with " ive taken up bottoming in my 50's...."....you may loose a few teeth in the wrong type of pubs....

@markchodotcom

Ай бұрын

@@richardichard4237 😆

@markchodotcom

Ай бұрын

👏 hats off to you for making the effort to learn a great skill

@MisterBurtonshaw

Ай бұрын

@@richardichard4237 Luckily for me, I'm a dab hand at taking teeth out too... no tools needed ;) Those of use who 'can' are tradesman types, not softies !

Could Mark tell us what he is wearing here? I love that jacket.

@markchodotcom

12 күн бұрын

This was a custom Road Jacket in a tweed from Lovat.

On a side note: do Englishmen also not differentiate between Bluchers and Derbies? Because the museum calf shoe is certainly a Blucher by definition.

The demise of Foster and sons is so sad. Their Last shape for the Terry Moore bespoke half brogues was to die for……the Peal/Foster ready to wear Lasts are things of beauty…🇬🇧

Why cannot lasts be made by 3D printing today in 2024?

@derosa1989

Ай бұрын

They can. Carmina does it, but it's not easy as the scan of the foot still has to be converted into the last that takes the inside shape of the shoe. The last is not a replica of the foot, but an interpretation of the shape of the shoe.

@anonymousonlineuser6543

Ай бұрын

@@derosa1989 From a scan of the foot to exact shoe-style final last, all could be made with a few clicks of software. We have technology now to make precise customer fitting. It is aslo afordable now ,so there only thing that holds bespoke makers back is their own archaic thinking.

@LouisMuc

Ай бұрын

@@anonymousonlineuser6543 "archaic thinking" ? Some craftsmen have respect for their craft and their tradition and prefer handwork over technology. Has nothing to do with "archaic".

@teekue

Ай бұрын

​@@anonymousonlineuser6543that is too simple. You cannot take a copy of a foot and just cast that as a last. You have to know where to add space, remove space, have to know how the customer likes to have their shoes fit. And then translate that into the shape the customer wants. So it hast to be a complex programm that has to have a lot of information in last making from last makers. It has to be a good translation, it musst be able to adapt to custom requests, it has to have a lot of data points etc pp. Carmina does it but they are only trialing it. Shoegazing tried it and it seemed only as good as adjusted lasts, so adding on to existing lasts. And the pricing is very high for the last only, we will see If it sticks around. A lastmaker will also be able to adjust the custom Last after fittings. A machine won't. Or you need yet another custom machine/new last with new custom inputs. Or you know... a lastmaker in addition to your machine. Which would of course make no sense. Why not just have him make the last in the first place then?

@Enrico-

Ай бұрын

@@anonymousonlineuser6543 Nah it wouldn't. It's much more complicated than that. You could have like 3 dimensions (lenght, width and instep height) like RTW shoes lasts used to be made a century ago but it wouldn't really require scanning, you would just need a fairly large last library. Which is also how the vast majority or cordwainer made shoes before RTW shoes existed. Making the last for the client has always been very niche.