Boiler Room Shoe Repair

05/30/2026

Red Wing model 8849 boots with Dr. Sole recraft including:
-La Querce welts
-Steel shanks
-Leather midsole
-Dr. Sole Raw Cord half sole and heel
-Brass nails
-Custom thread color options
-Leather stack heel balance
-Hand-burnished natural edge finish

05/16/2026

White's MP cap toe boots converted from stitchdown to welted construction. This makes machine stitched resoles much easier. This recraft features brown Vibram oil resisting nitrile soles, stacked leather heel bases, and GTO Italia Tank lug heels in brown to match.

05/16/2026

Marseil Italian horsehide shoes with german pit tanned toe tip buildups, new blake stitching that holds those toe tips in place, 3mm Svig crespino protective rubber soles, and 10mm Svig Rodi heels with brass nails.

05/14/2026

05/09/2026

Chippewa motorcycle boots sesoled with Vibram 430 outsoles, new stacked leather heel blocks, and Vibram 700 heels.

Heavy duty heel attachment with long nails from the outside in and from the inside out ensure maximum safety for the rider. Thick, soft leather heel pads cover the clinched nail tips and outward facing nail heads for comfort.

Yellow stitching set in a recessed groove machined in the soles ensures longest lasting sole attachment, and a 4mm leather midsole provides rigidity and durability to the boot. The yellow sole stitching not only matches the Vibram logo, but provides a high visibility wear indicator for the threads for the later stages of sole wear, for safety. Every original hole in the welt was stitched by machine during this process.

Originally equipped with fiberboard midsole and heel bases, these leather ones are of much greater durability and should provide the client with years of reliable service.

05/08/2026

This pair has the most original, long preserved shoe repair mojo I have ever seen in one pair. I don't even know what that little arched half sole type splice trick is called, I've never done it. These things are multigenerational. Just in for some minimal stitching repairs from me. Genuine shell cordovan, unknown maker.

04/23/2026

Red Wing Chelsea boots resoled from original leather soles to Vibram 430 with grooved outsole stitching and heels balanced with consideration for the soles' additional thickness. Heels topped off with brown Svig extreme heel rubber top pieces.

04/17/2026

Outsole stitching. Striving to sew through as many original holes in the welts when they're original, and for keeping the machine clean, tuned, and oiled so it can do it's best work.

03/28/2026

Red Wing Iron Rangers resoled with full leather midsoles, Vibram Fire and Ice soles and heels, leather heel blocks with a woodsman profile grind, and brass screws in the soles. New cork filler in the footbed and fabric shank covering, original welts remain in use.

03/18/2026