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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 2:18 pm Post subject: Bespoke boots.

This may not be the right forum to post this, but I think it will do for now...

A thought occurred to me this week which was that the main difficulty with getting a bespoke boot was that you need to make a model of the individual foot to make the boot around.
These days, it is simplicity itself to make such a model: just stick the foot in a 3d scanner and print it off.
Developing the idea, I thought that if we had a portfolio of cobblers, the customer could come in, have their feet scanned and sent to their chosen cobbler to have them made...

That's about as far as I'd got with that idea. I don't think it is one that I'll run with by myself...

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 2:23 pm Post subject:
"Portfolio of cobblers" may not be the most attractive working title

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 2:29 pm Post subject:
A portfolio of potential podiatric product producers?

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 2:31 pm Post subject:
why not ? if you can appeal to practitoners of alliteration

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 2:56 pm Post subject:

mousjoos wrote:

why not ? if you can appeal to practitoners of alliteration

Surely artisans are preferable to practitioners?

kGarden

Joined: 01 Dec 2014
Posts: 178
Location: Suffolk, UK

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 5:26 pm Post subject:

I'm having some bespoke shoes made; my feet are short and wide and I've never fitted off-the-peg shoes well, so I thought I'd got to the stage in life where I might treat myself - hopefully going to kick myself that I should have done it decades ago ...

Company I have gone to don't make a last, per se, they use standard lasts that are somewhat adjustable. That means there is little cost in making the last, compared to full-blown bespoke-last cobblers, and the shoes I am having made are about the same price as a high-end off-the-shelf brand.

Haven't had them yet, so can't tell you if they will be any good or not, but the factory unit had a heck of a lot of shoes stacked up, so they have plenty of work.

The owner is a bit of a computer buff so I will have a chat with him when I collect them and report back. Seems to me 3D scanner and 3D printer might do the trick?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 5:38 pm Post subject:
A 3D scanner might help. 3D printer would make you crocs.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 5:41 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

A 3D scanner might help. 3D printer would make you crocs.

The printer is to make the last around which you make the boot.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 6:42 pm Post subject:
It takes about 1/2 hour to get your measurements taken at somewhere like https://chuckleshoes.co.uk/ . I'm sure similar establishments exist else where. I'm all for technology, but it strikes me that humans are actually pretty good at some stuff.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 6:58 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nick wrote:

A 3D scanner might help. 3D printer would make you crocs.

The printer is to make the last around which you make the boot.

Ah. It's been a long day. I didn't see my bed til 3am.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 7:17 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Nick wrote:

A 3D scanner might help. 3D printer would make you crocs.

The printer is to make the last around which you make the boot.

Ah. It's been a long day. I didn't see my bed til 3am.

3am on New Years night?
Lightweight.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 7:24 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

It takes about 1/2 hour to get your measurements taken at somewhere like https://chuckleshoes.co.uk/ . I'm sure similar establishments exist else where. I'm all for technology, but it strikes me that humans are actually pretty good at some stuff.

I was about to say "yeah, but how much do they cost?", but then I found the price list: surprisingly reasonable...
Even so, the technology should be able to knock a good chunk off that.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 8:20 pm Post subject:
You might have to be careful with using 'podiatry'. I think it's a protected title.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 8:31 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

You might have to be careful with using 'podiatry'. I think it's a protected title.

pseudo podiatric?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 8:49 pm Post subject:
Homeopodiatry.

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