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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 9:08 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Homeopodiatry.

Wouldn't get the alliterating artisan association approval.

john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 9:12 pm Post subject:
I am an Anti Christ I am a Podiatrist................

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 15 9:58 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Homeopodiatry.

Surely that would be the mere memory of feet and how accurate is the memory?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15598

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 15 8:45 am Post subject:
What's wrong with boot maker?

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 15 9:35 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

What's wrong with boot maker?

Boot maker was my original thought, but that might imply that they don't make shoes.

Hairyloon

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

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 15 11:26 am 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.

Granted, I do not get out much, but I have never seen one, nor even heard about them. Part of the point is that it would make it easy for people like them to cater for people who cannot easily go to see them.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 15 10:19 pm Post subject:
some of the posh bootmakers keep a customer's lasts (left and right are required) which does encourage repeat business having had a quick look at taylor's in paddington st the 3d scanning thing seems to have been adopted already for driving the cad wood cutters for beech lasts rather than printing plastic lasts

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 5:13 pm Post subject:

if a budget plastic last could be achieved this way, I think it would be a boost to the number of people dabbling in home shoemaking for their own use. You can buy polystyrene lasts for felted slippers already, but they always seem slightly odd proportions to me, and relatively expensive for the material, I'd certainly like a pair of rigid plastic lasts as an alternative to the duct-tape ones I currently use when making shoes

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 5:34 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

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.

You can just draw round your feet and send the drawing to Chuckles - but we took Leo in person and he did some foot-print stuff that meant that he did a bit of a built up sole for him. It's basically a case of measuring the dimensions and writing them down, though.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 5:50 pm Post subject:
i recon a greased foot ,a mould either using latex or plaster of paris and cast a last in resin would be a fairly low tech /low skill method

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 5:54 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

i recon a greased foot ,a mould either using latex or plaster of paris and cast a last in resin would be a fairly low tech /low skill method

oh indeed, but the idea of being able to go into a shop with a suitable scanner and have a set made without needing to set up the supplies and deal wit the mess would be a pleasant novelty!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 5:58 pm Post subject:
the into a shop etc exists but it isnt cheap yet ed i spose a scan ,chose style ,boots are cad made and posted might be a workable business model

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 15 9:54 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

the into a shop etc exists but it isnt cheap yet...

I don't see why it shouldn’t be. 3d Scanners and printers are not particularly expensive any more.

kGarden

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

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 15 9:10 am Post subject:
If the only?? cobblers doing it are using 3D scan to then drive a wood cutter to make the last could it be that the plastic from 3D printers is not robust enough? Although space station making spanners via 3D printer

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 15 9:35 am Post subject:
3D printers were specifically invented to make spare parts for tanks, including tracks. If your boot maker is breaking them, don't wear his boots.

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