Main Street Cobbler

11/03/2022

Hey Voters! Only a couple of days left to vote early!
☑️Thursday (11/3) & Friday (11/4) at the courthouse 9a-4p
☑️Thursday (11/3) 11a-6p at the Jefferson County Public Safety Center, 620 Green Road
☑️ Saturday (11/5) at the Courthouse 8a-3p
☑️LAST CHANCE: Monday (11/7) at the courthouse 9a to noon

06/05/2022

The ice patches of Norway have yielded thousands of treasures — and climate change could destroy them.

02/15/2022

https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/2044526842387722/

The smallest shop in London - a cobbler with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900

08/27/2021

Something I never tried after years of shoe modification. Shortened the shoe for a toe amputee. Required making a plaster cast, new toe box, relasting and modifying the sole.

06/27/2021

A customer asked if I could fix "Crocs." Sure, but sometimes a "Croc" is really a crock. I guess I need to ask more specific questions about what the customer wants fixed. This was my 19th century make-do.

04/15/2021

It is not always shoe repair that comes in. This came in over the weekend, great uncle's suitcase that got stickers on it from everywhere he stayed on summer trips. Didn't have the camera before I tore off all the black electrical tape. The binding is getting resewn, installed a metal gusset where the lid side cracked, and need to reglue the bottom structure back to the side. Lots of hand stitching ahead, but the lid crack is structral again and binding sewn back on the first bit

10/21/2020

This needs an update, The arms got fixed... . The arms have broken three more times since the last post and a misc. leg break. Still healing on the last arm break but work is going out daily. The fall rush hasn't started yet so bring your work in or start shipping before something else breaks (hopefully not). Maybe a tin shop by spring???

02/14/2019

After dealing with two leg breaks last year that have healed, it has been discovered that both arms are broke (ulna). Been doing work I can pull off for the last month with help from friends. Doc tomorrow to hopefully put the bones back together. Repairs will still happen but time frames maybe delayed. Apologies to all.

06/22/2018

https://www.facebook.com/purpleclvr/photos/a.375609882543951.1073741828.369508529820753/2208569559247965/?type=3 If you are going to make your dog where shoes, put them on the right feet (notice toe strap).

06/24/2017

Crafty, eh?

Found in a cave in Armenia, in the Vayots Dzor province, the Areni-1 shoe is the oldest leather shoe to have ever been discovered. The shoe was found in 20

03/11/2017

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/someone-please-rent-texas-new-cowboy-boot-house

10/05/2016

Now you can "power lace" it up just like Marty McFly.