A weekend workshop to crank out some turn shoes. A lesson for next time – we built these in a period manner, which meant not lasting them like a 17th+ century shoe, cranked tight to the last and nailed in place. Instead, the shoe is tugged snug to the last and sewn on that way. Unfortunately, I did not advise my students to tug tight sufficiently, and many of them ended up being a half size or so too large. Knowledge to take on to the next workshop…

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