Customizing Alden Shoes (Restoration)

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024

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  • @RobertEMuir
    @RobertEMuir Před rokem +57

    I grew up in my grandfather's upholstery shop. We only did antique furniture. 47 years later I do custom aircraft interiors and concert tour bus interiors. I really appreciate your craftsmanship. Merry Christmas

  • @albertpestana9137
    @albertpestana9137 Před rokem +25

    Hi Steve, I have watched every episode you have uploaded since 2020. I am in such awe of your skills, patience and dedication to your art. You are head and shoulders above the crowd in my opinion, and in today's disposable, instant gratification world, you sir, are a true artist. I particularly like your touches where you share coffee time with friends and are very proud of your heritage and your family. Keep them coming dude. Much love from a very ardent fan in Johannesburg South Africa.

  • @marwanal-mukhtar2708
    @marwanal-mukhtar2708 Před rokem +1

    Love the photos. You came from a great Family. My God bless your dad’s soul

  • @waynedub1167
    @waynedub1167 Před rokem +2

    Thanks for sharing the family pictures.
    And awesome work once again.

  • @clydedisney6569
    @clydedisney6569 Před rokem +1

    Loved seeing the pics of the family Steve!

  • @mrctheotherguyfromboston

    Steve I so appreciate you creating a logo with your Dad. What an awesome tip of the hat it is.
    Great work Great video as always.
    Merry Christmas to you and your Beautiful family 🙏🎄👍

  • @CoLD.SToRAGE
    @CoLD.SToRAGE Před rokem +1

    Thanks for the tour of your family photos… you have a beautiful family. I work in Basel, Switzerland and one of my co-workers is from Armenia. But now he lives with his family in France and commutes to work in Switzerland each week.

  • @manuelgonzalezgonzalez2848

    Buenos días Steve ,un maravilloso trabajo artesanal ,eres un maravilloso artesano ,simpático ,culto y con un gran sentido del humor ,te deseo unas felices fiestas navideñas ,y un feliz ańo 2023 ,saludos Steve❤️❤️❤️🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩

  • @jackeddemon
    @jackeddemon Před rokem +1

    The Greek history pics made me tear up a bit. Great heritage ❤

  • @robertspencer4009
    @robertspencer4009 Před rokem +1

    You are the expert. Your opinion is valuable to us laymen.

  • @craft-o-matic399
    @craft-o-matic399 Před rokem +10

    Merry Christmas to you and your family Steve! I want to wish you a fantastically successful, joyful and peaceful 2023.
    Thank you for all the laughs, love, passion, skill and entertainment you share with all of us! It brings me a great deal of joy, and I am very grateful!
    Lisa
    P.S. You Dad was a pretty stunning looking guy! You are too, and just tell your wife if she reads these comments, that this compliment comes from an almost 64 year old woman!

  • @theringer13
    @theringer13 Před rokem +1

    Great video with family at end! What an awesome history and beautiful family!

  • @VladislavCantea
    @VladislavCantea Před rokem +1

    Nice shoes. Hopefully the customer puts on different shoelaces. Love the pictures.

  • @adamcain4603
    @adamcain4603 Před rokem

    Those pictures of your dad are so cool loving seeing photos like this

  • @moonstarer55
    @moonstarer55 Před rokem +1

    Another text book of how it should be done. Excellent project there Steve. May I pass my own wishes to you and yours. Merry Christmas Steve. Shine on

  • @onemanswrld
    @onemanswrld Před rokem +1

    Kind of a neat project to match a picture of a shoe.....well done......

  • @GlennTillema
    @GlennTillema Před rokem +1

    Loved the pictures of your family, thanks for sharing!
    Shoes looked great, too! :)

  • @johnthreefifteen
    @johnthreefifteen Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas, Steve. When I hear, “Here goes nothing”, I know another well crafted project is on the way.

  • @duncanselvester1045
    @duncanselvester1045 Před rokem

    I love your films ,Steve, thank you. I bought a pair of shoes at the start of my 6th form (age 16) and by looking after them, was able to wear them at my wedding (aged 38!) My father (ex army) taught me how to deal with shoes and I have tried to pass that on to my sons(only time will tell!). Love what you do and teach. Thanks.

  • @___1980.
    @___1980. Před rokem +5

    Wow 🤩 I’ve got to say I would never trust any other artisan for quality work. -
    The man is humble, speaks to you on a real level and is not only a professional, but a perfectionist!
    -I called him for something small and gave me advice on a real level without being arrogant or trying to charge me, but assisted me with his heart.
    -Thank you for the history of your immediate family shared as well, have met numerous Armenians here in the Houston greater area and one in Dubai and all except 1 ( Nizar’s Fine Jewelry) have been nothing, but warm and genuine people, unlike like blood-thirsty Turks.
    -Thank You Mr. Bedo-

  • @holiosys
    @holiosys Před rokem +1

    Great work! 614$ is a steal for this job!

  • @nena4215
    @nena4215 Před rokem +1

    Better than new, dang, your dad was very handsome!😊

  • @imm311
    @imm311 Před rokem +1

    Excellent as always! God bless you and yours! Praying for you!

  • @fronniebealer7808
    @fronniebealer7808 Před rokem +1

    Stronger look, but still dressy. Great job.

  • @jteddy11
    @jteddy11 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for the history, I love that stuff, and the name of the shop, cool that it is your Dad's name.

  • @winter3892
    @winter3892 Před rokem +1

    These videos are so relaxing make me fall asleep 😴 💤 shoes looks amazing!!!

  • @BrianJoyce-dk2sg
    @BrianJoyce-dk2sg Před rokem +1

    thanks for the tour around your sole stitcher. I always wondered how you threaded one of those things.

  • @safanathan7789
    @safanathan7789 Před rokem +2

    Thank you Steve. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

  • @teddybear9029
    @teddybear9029 Před rokem +1

    Yes Steve! It’s called the gemming we know! Have a great Christmas my friend and all the best!

  • @VicOrlando
    @VicOrlando Před rokem +1

    Dad looks like a movie star man. I think you should make your own lasts n shoes. Shame everyone smoked and didn't really think about the health repercussions back then. I think your shoes would do very very well.

  • @jonesingaround3260
    @jonesingaround3260 Před rokem

    I love walking into businesses that have pictures to tell a story or time line. I'll take the time to look through them all

  • @lauroelias3834
    @lauroelias3834 Před rokem +2

    Hi Steve, Merry Christmas!
    Baby Jesus visit your home bless you so much. Gratitude, I'm from Brazil.

  • @sammyjo8109
    @sammyjo8109 Před rokem +1

    Your dad was a handsome man. I enjoyed the pictures. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

  • @Jane-yp7hy
    @Jane-yp7hy Před rokem +1

    Hi Steve - great job as usual. Your wife is stunning, and you make quite the couple as you're not too shabby either. Merry Christmas!

  • @DrMJJr
    @DrMJJr Před rokem +1

    Happy Holidays Steve!! Best wishes and a restful and joyous Season to you and the family. And PLEASE enjoy what we ALL KNOW is a much deserved rest!! ♥️♥️♥️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @JC-cm9bn
    @JC-cm9bn Před rokem +7

    Steve you are an artist, once again the shoe's look fantastic! Love the history and photographs of your family. Happy Holidays!

  • @coryjones9573
    @coryjones9573 Před rokem +1

    Awesome hearing about the photos. Great job

  • @Bor7575
    @Bor7575 Před rokem +2

    Классная обувь и семья! 🤝🤗

  • @lotsabirds
    @lotsabirds Před rokem +1

    Have a Super Christmas, Steve! Let's Continue!

  • @jay7sa
    @jay7sa Před rokem +1

    I enjoy hearing about your family
    The shoes look great

  • @johnnyfnhammersticks
    @johnnyfnhammersticks Před rokem +1

    Great video as always. Beautiful family.

  • @angelalane1307
    @angelalane1307 Před rokem +1

    🎉🎊🎆🎩👑🍾🙏 Have a Happy New Year with your beautiful family!!! We Love You, Steve!!!

  • @Deavo56
    @Deavo56 Před rokem +1

    Great Job Steve-Merry Christmas to you and your family!! Will see you in 2023!

  • @jads9296
    @jads9296 Před rokem +1

    Loved the photos Steve! Great history!

  • @arthurpoghosyan1352
    @arthurpoghosyan1352 Před rokem +2

    Merry Christmas Stive! It's really very interesting to watch how you work and listen your explanations.

  • @Paul_Lane
    @Paul_Lane Před rokem +4

    From a rough pair of shoes to like new. Great work! I enjoyed the family history lesson. It’s pretty obvious how proud you are of your dad and family.

  • @edgarcardiel157
    @edgarcardiel157 Před rokem

    Thankyou for sharing that at the end brother, as a fellow cobbler and son of immigrants our stories are an example of how far hard work and grit can get us.
    Glad to know im not alone out there.

  • @robinpinkham9398
    @robinpinkham9398 Před rokem +1

    Happy Christmas 🎄☃️❄ Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures ❤❤❤❤

  • @andybell4329
    @andybell4329 Před rokem +1

    Happy Christmas Steve. Thank you for another year of videos featuring great craftsmanship!

  • @zevgoldman6769
    @zevgoldman6769 Před rokem +1

    All I want for Christmas is an update on your Shell Cordovan shoe project. Merry Christmas!

  • @mitchgreen-poisson6776
    @mitchgreen-poisson6776 Před rokem +1

    "I think they turned out pretty good" he says after a beautiful job lol

  • @dangaines405
    @dangaines405 Před rokem +1

    Great workmanship! Love your family pictures! Merry Christmas!

  • @rob3160
    @rob3160 Před rokem +4

    You should get your sons to pitch in and teach them to mirror shine for you on those occasions when it is a customer request. GREAT JOB. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR.

  • @randybourdon2791
    @randybourdon2791 Před rokem +1

    Great video Steve, thanks for sharing your family photos. Back in the days when just about everyone smoked as they worked. Merry Christmas Steve, all the best!

  • @charliegrantham2372
    @charliegrantham2372 Před rokem +1

    As always, you knocked it out of the park. Bravo and Merry Christmas.

  • @lancealotte7808
    @lancealotte7808 Před rokem +1

    Steve, it's nice that you have great photos of your ancestors. You also have two handsome boys and a very pretty wife. You two look happy in the photos not just smiling for the camera.
    Wishing you and your family a holiday season filled with love and happiness and also health prosperity and continued happiness in 2023.

  • @kd5byb
    @kd5byb Před rokem +2

    Another awesome project. I really love how you change thread in the outsole stitcher! Very cool to have the old thread pull the new thread through!

  • @MrLukealbanese
    @MrLukealbanese Před rokem +1

    Wow that really is beautiful Steve. Have a great Holiday Season 👍👍👍

  • @garybowland3009
    @garybowland3009 Před rokem +1

    Beautiful family and great work

  • @tommmarree3689
    @tommmarree3689 Před rokem +1

    Thank you Steve for yet another great year!! 20023 will be better yet !!!
    MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE ENTIRE FAMILY !!!!

  • @davemcgahhey
    @davemcgahhey Před rokem +1

    Thank you for sharing your photos and history! Love the 4 generations of craftsmen!

  • @rayclark9643
    @rayclark9643 Před rokem

    Awesome work as usual. Good looking family...thanks for the history!

  • @AllieSheffield
    @AllieSheffield Před rokem +1

    God bless his soul 🌷
    Merry Christmas and Happy, healthy and prosperous new year to you, your wife and family! ❤🎉🥂

  • @robertthorn9560
    @robertthorn9560 Před rokem +1

    Beautiful family, thank you for sharing....Merry Christmas....

  • @robertminato2706
    @robertminato2706 Před rokem +4

    Happy holiday Steve and family ! Thank you for sharing photos. Im sure your dad is looking down very proud.

  • @user-ry7qb4kl2h
    @user-ry7qb4kl2h Před rokem +3

    Bedos, as always, admires your work!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Health and happiness to you and your family! Thank you so much!!!

  • @annab3182
    @annab3182 Před rokem +1

    Great Work Steve! I loved the picture! Being Greek it is very kinfolk like to me. Thank you 🙏🏼 merry Christmas

  • @ALLinHerMovements
    @ALLinHerMovements Před rokem +1

    Beautiful family, sharp shoes, and awesome Submariner! Happy holidays 🎄

  • @sharonh988
    @sharonh988 Před rokem +1

    Awesome job as usual Steve. Best wishes to you and your family for a Happy holiday season. I look forward to next years videos. 🥾

  • @deepcover9894
    @deepcover9894 Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. Have a restful holiday and enjoy the warmth and love of family.

  • @Papamonty01
    @Papamonty01 Před rokem

    Beautiful family Steve!! Wonderful video work on the shoes!

  • @gerrygoldstein4698
    @gerrygoldstein4698 Před rokem +1

    Thanks so much for sharing the family photos Steve. I love that you that. Pop was a handsome man. But Great Granpa with his Fez and wicked stash is just so bad ass. And of course the wonderful work you do. I really enjoy your vids. Merry Christmas to you and yours

  • @ThriftedGent
    @ThriftedGent Před rokem +6

    If you change this shoe from an oxford to a derby shoe you are the GOAT of shoe repair. 😁 Merry Christmas my friend 🙏

  • @lindacsmith13
    @lindacsmith13 Před rokem +1

    I sneeze twice. Merry Christmas.

  • @robertalavoie7217
    @robertalavoie7217 Před rokem +1

    Another well done job and thanks for sharing the pics of your dad. Your wife is a real beauty and your boys look just like her.

  • @enchanted8967
    @enchanted8967 Před rokem +1

    Another great project Steve, I quite like this one.
    Sharing family photos and short story was amazing.
    Shnorhavor Amanor yev Surb Tznund

  • @martinc9215
    @martinc9215 Před rokem +1

    Very nice video and lovely to see your family history. You father was a good looking man. Happy New Year.

  • @jamestapscott9400
    @jamestapscott9400 Před rokem +1

    Another great repair video. Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's to you and your family.

  • @tflick41
    @tflick41 Před rokem +1

    Loved the photos and the history! Shoes look fantastic! How many people can say they have mastered their craft?!

  • @vikik4714
    @vikik4714 Před rokem +1

    Your work is wonderful, as always! Happy Amanor and Surb Tsnund!

  • @danjoe22
    @danjoe22 Před rokem +4

    Great job. These shoes are now awesome and beefy like you mentioned. Kind of like a Florsheim Imperial. You are both a master cobbler and a great teacher. Loved the photos of your family. You have done them proud. Merry Christmas.

  • @rowlandmogaecho2272
    @rowlandmogaecho2272 Před rokem +1

    Your Dad was very handsome!

  • @baberoot1998
    @baberoot1998 Před rokem

    Steve is the highest quality cobbler out there. The most expensive as well...but...the very best. You get what you pay for...is just the reality in life. Saw a video the other day on Wyatt and Dad...where Allen Edmonds had changed out the welt so many times, without using the same holes...the leather upper busted out at the seams. The shoe would have been better off...just not being re-welted. Something I didn't know. I mean...I always knew AE wouldn't re-sole more than 3 times, but I never knew why. Now I know why. An independent cobbler, when re-welting a shoe...will re-welt by hand using the same holes, therefore not causing damage to the upper. AE uses a machine to re-welt, and the machine likely will not hit the same holes...making the upper Swiss cheese, and ultimately...causing the upper to split...beyond repair. I considered next time I send my AE's off to AE for a re-sole...to ask them NOT to re-welt. It turns your shoe into Swiss cheese. Edit: And to be clear...Wyatt and Dad was not disparaging AE. He was simply explaining WHY the shoe had blown out. Wyatt and Dad...is another cobbler I respect. Good work from both Wyatt and Dad, and Bedo's.

  • @philmartinez1872
    @philmartinez1872 Před rokem +1

    It was nice to see your family

  • @steveherring8494
    @steveherring8494 Před rokem +1

    hi steve, marry christmas. i'm now in AZ so i don't think i'll be dropping into visit again. i was watch rose anvil and nicks boots are making some custom boots in colabration with rose anvil and your name was mentioned about your excellent shoe repair. your name and the brothers in tennessee were also mentioned. all three were mention in the same sentence. love your work steve. i haven't been working on my combat boot that u resoled. they are definitely black but just not to the spit shine that i want. when i get them finished i plan to send you a pic of them. best of luck steve.

  • @jerrycutright3267
    @jerrycutright3267 Před rokem +2

    I for one appreciate your craftsmanship and honesty. Keep up the good work!!

  • @davidedmonds6427
    @davidedmonds6427 Před rokem +1

    WOW, thanks for sharing your family history, Merry Christmas to you and your FAMILY!!!

  • @garetkonigsfeld2
    @garetkonigsfeld2 Před rokem +1

    I love how proud of your dad you are. Another amazing job. Thanks for sharing 👍.

  • @Steve111
    @Steve111 Před rokem +1

    Great work again Steve all the best for Christmas and new year please continue 👍.

  • @albert333pool
    @albert333pool Před rokem +3

    Let's continue 👍

  • @stanleystuart547
    @stanleystuart547 Před rokem +1

    The customer wanted Guarded Goods laces, easily the best laces for Alden Shoes.

  • @jamese.gulyard8897
    @jamese.gulyard8897 Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas, May God’s peace and blessings be with you and your family

  • @donaldroberts6452
    @donaldroberts6452 Před rokem +2

    Merry Christmas Steve. Best wishes to you and your family.

  • @Crackers2549
    @Crackers2549 Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas Steveroo to you and your family... Love watching your skillful work...! Greg

  • @anandnayak6319
    @anandnayak6319 Před rokem +1

    Mr Bedo,
    I live in Calcutta, India. As you mentioned you are Armenian, my city Calcutta at one point had a lot of Armenians, in fact we have Armenian Church of Nazareth. Armenian College and Philantrophic Society.The Armenians in Calcutta were mainly into real estate business during the British Rule and they have given my city beautiful buoldings, some of the famous were Stephen Arathoon, Carapiet Galstaun and Famous Armenian Merchant SUKEAS.

  • @StreetSoldierUK
    @StreetSoldierUK Před rokem +1

    Watching this on Christmas Day, 2022.

  • @paulterhaar4218
    @paulterhaar4218 Před rokem +1

    Merry christmas and a happy new year! See u in 2023 with new cool video's. I cant wait!

  • @karismakris
    @karismakris Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas to you and your family Steve. Thanks for the great videos! 💚❤️💚

  • @disc2120
    @disc2120 Před rokem +1

    I see you like some HCL. A real man of taste.

  • @positiveSOUL
    @positiveSOUL Před rokem +1

    Yeah man, very cool video to watch as I’m sitting an a train, Paris to Antibes. Have an awesome 2023! 🎉