Truman Boots Full Rebuild By Dimar Shoe Repair
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2022
- Follow along as Pablo rebuilds his personal Truman boots in Harvest Glazed leather.
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I live about 45 mins from you. I've been contemplating getting a pair of trumans and i said to myself ill need a cobbler as well. Thanks for the video and i guess ill see you in a few years for a re sole ! You do great work as well !
I love my Truman boots and I'm sure you will as well!
You did a great job with those boots, I am loving the color and style. My wife got me a pair of Truman boots and the style and finish of the boots are my favorite. You did a great job with your boot, really like the build, looks amazing! Great job!
Thank you very much!
Great work!
Thanks!
Awesome job and cool boots!
Thank you!
Another great video and a great repair on your boots. It must be nice to be able to work on your own boots and shoes. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Found you on Bedos CZcams. Nice video! Ty
Awesome! Thank you!
Spectacular
Thank you 🙏
Taking off such a nice sole to replace it with a nicer one
Beautiful work
Thank you!
Nice work!
Thanks for watching!
I love seeing craftsmen doing the work they love
Thank you, Jack!
Hi I am Ali from Scotland. Got your site from Bedo Leather. I love craftwork and shall continue watching your videos.
Thank you so much!
Nice pair of boots with some really good upgrades! Good stuff!
Thank you very much!
@@dimarshoerepair had a question
When I compared my Truman’s to my PNW boots like whites and franks on a weight to weight basis they’re as heavy and solid
Which makes me wonder when you’ve torn them apart - how heavyweight are the leather insole, midsole and heel lifts? When you compare them to (a) other Goodyear welted boots and (b) the traditional handmade stitch down Pacific Northwest boots?
Was also wondering the shank - you had the chance to remove one - how strong / supportive did you find it?
Finally - the foam filler is between the insole and midsole - if they’re using solid thick 9-10 iron insoles and 10-12 iron mid soles would the foam negatively impact longevity?
Thanks!
I like a natural finish the stitches were clean. Never thought to use Para cord for laces nice work sir
Thank you very much for your feedback!
Really good 👍🏾 job on the boots 🥾😎
Really appreciate it!
great video! I'm glad you showed us that the Truman boots don't come with cork fillers and a fiberglass shank. I don't care about the shank but I do want a cork filler to be honest. I was going to buy a pair of Java waxed flesh boots with cap toe on the 20last but now I'm hesitating because of what I learned here. Thanks for the video.
I just got my pair of uplands in Java waxed. I have nicks and whites. These boots are up there with them on fit and finish. I even got that same pop sound when your foot pops into heel pocket. They def moved to cork.
Yeah Truman has since switched from foam to cork!
guys today love their boots, a few years ago i bet they had 500 pais of seakers! boots pretty exspensive and looks like they don't hold up so well,seems i see boots with looks like nothing wrong with them being soled and heeled, seen the leather falling apart too. wonder what the next big thing to own or collect will be!
Maybe Crocs?
Great work!I prefer cork as well
Thank you! Cork is king 👑
Enjoyable and informative video. I'm a bit shocked that Truman doesn't use cork. Awesome upgrades!
Thanks for watching 😊
The other day I reached out to Truman about this, this use a “EVA cloud” and also cork but say the foam is better as it doesn’t break down like cork, and may just switch to only use cork. I know you said you only use cork, but I’m curious on your take in EVA foam vs cork, and whether that’s an argument for EVA. I suppose it can always be upgraded like in your video, but makes you think if it’s going to be expensive, and better to just buy a new pair of boots with cork. I’m curious on your take on the matter. Thanks.
I actually emailed Truman about the EVA and they wrote back saying that they well do away with EVA and replace it with cork.
Great work!
Nice work! I understand the reason for using cork however It would seem that soft leather/rubber perhaps would serve the same purpose!!!???
Leather is a great filler
Boots didn't look very worn.... Nice rebuild.
Toes were almost at midsole, thanks for watching!
Hey Pablo, at about 9:50, looks like you didn't install a heel rand. Is that not needed? I have never seen a 270 welt construction without a rand. Can you please explain? Thanks!
Truman uses their midsoles as the heel rand. So I did the same. You dye the midsole at the heel before installing it onto the boot. It's actually a cool effect!
great video. not sure I would have replaced the soles while they look that good but I'm not a cobbler : )
Thank you for watching ☺️👍
Nice work. Why not use the moldable cork filler instead of a sheet?
I like being able to sand the cork so that it's perfectly flush and fitted without any bumps
If the insole's thick veg tan, does cork filler really do any molding to the foot, other than just compressing?
Yes cork filler molds. Of the thousands of shoes we've taken apart over the decades the cork filler has had foot imprints most of the time
When you glued on the midsole, why the clean line and no glue on the heel? Thanks for the video.
There is glue on the heel on the boot and it cuts out before I put it on the sole
A nicely executed rebuild. It'd be great to see cobblers offer a premium all-leather rebuild package though with oak bark tanned leather as the filler instead of cork and an oak bark tanned leather shank instead of wood, steel, or fiberglass. Call it the PNW rebuild package or something. I think boot aficionados and traditionalists and people who just plain appreciate an all-leather construction, minus the outsole of course, would appreciate and opt for it. I know I would. And it'd be a good means for cobblers to generate a little more revenue.
Oh I'm digging this!!!
@@dimarshoerepair Right! It's all yours man, run with it. It could work as a nice premium alternative to a standard rebuild package. Upgrade Vibergs or Thursdays or Grant Stones or Aldens or Trumans on and on.
Honestly until recently I thought they did leather and sometimes cork. Now I'm learning they mostly do foam. I'm not paying those prices for foam and I even grit my teeth over cork but I'll do it. Forget them, I'll stick with Nicks or Franks.
@@averyj.steele1074 Nicks uses synthetic slipsoles on their traditional boots. They hold up fine and prevent squeaking. There's no "filler" in PNW stitchdown boots because there's no welt and therefore no cavity within the welt to fill, as with Goodyear shoes like Trumans. White's handwelted boots don't have a cavity, either, but they're even more expensive. On Goodyear, the filler gets replaced when the welt does. It's consumable, like the outsoles. A stitchdown boot at that stage has no welt to replace, so it's a "rebuild"-they replace the whole vamp. All you get back from your old boot is the quarters and heel counter. Which might make sense for 10" loggers from 8oz leather, but not so much for 6" or 7".
@@kemitchell Apparently you have severely misread my comment. I'm not referring to slip soles and I don't need stitchdown explained, but thanks. Try talking less, you're the only one who cares.
Beautiful work. What is the name of that specific leather Truman’s used to make your pair? It’s gorgeous.
Num it’s in the description
Thank you! It's called Glazed Harvest. I've never seen it again used by Truman.
Just found this and realized THIS IS MY SHOE GUY! After over 25 years, I no longer work in Guelph so it's a bit of a drive. He is the best!. Pablo, what type of glue are you using? I've watched a few videos and you don't seem to reference it. Thanks m
Renia Colle de Cologne, Renia Syntic Total & all the Renia primers
Did you not go in everyone of the old holes when putting the new welt on? If so why not
Of course I did
I came here for this too. Definitely didn't look like it. Hole spacing in the boot from the old welt looked like maybe 1/8 to 1/4 inch, but the stitches on the welt looked more like 1/4-1/2 inch. Like doing every other hole or something. Could be something weird with the camera or angle I guess.
Why don’t you use a cork paste as filler rather than sheets?
Because you can get bulges and bumps with the hot spreadable cork and the sheets you can sand to a perfectly smooth finish. It's how I do it
Another great video that was fun to watch. I’ve wanted a pair of Truman’s but will pass now considering they are not using cork filler.
They're still great boots but the foam over cork is a bit of a head scratcher
@@dimarshoerepair yes..but by the time I pay the exchange rate and duty taxes to ship to Canada I may as well buy a pair of Vibergs
They're using cork now.
@@lekkerlekker111 yes.. I think they got a lot of negative feedback about foam so went back to cork.
When a boot maker wears your boots. They must be good boots. I've been thinking of getting some trumans
They're beautiful ❤️
So would you say you recommend Truman? just that you personally change two pieces of the boot.
What other boot brand would you recommend that meets all of your expectations?
I love Truman, highly recommend! They actually started using cork filler after this video.
@@dimarshoerepair That is good to know and great news. I wonder about the fiberglass vs. steel shank.
Who is the mystery cobbler on the hammer?
Either Rachel, Elise or Mario
Personally i wish they used cork, the shank is fine but foam..meh. I was wondering how they kept the price as low as it is🤔 regardless a nice boot, I still intend to buy one eventually. Though I’d rather shell out a few extra bucks for the cork/leather or be provided the option on an MTO🤷🏻♂️ guess we’ll find out when I order. For the price it’s not offensive, it’s sensible. They wanted to offer rugged boots in cool leathers w a price that’ll place them in a specific group. Any higher and they’d be losing business to Nick/Whites/Viberg. Cause who’s their competition really? Grant Stone, Parkhurst. Red Wing? Oak Street uses foam too even though their misleading factory CZcams video displays otherwise. Lots of fancy tricks out there nowadays, one of the reasons i prefer unlined quarters (besides that they roll beautifully and feel nicer). Companies love using thin upper and backing it w “glove lining”, tear apart a Thursday Vanguard for example and you’ll find canvas between the layers. Reeaal slick man. I’m sure you’ve seen these things. These are still a good boot, especially for the price and lead times 👌
I totally agree with you. Although Truman is now using cork on all their builds, apparently. Oak Street definitely surprised me when I took them apart
would've preferred to see him rebuild a pair of boots that actually needed it...
My toes were into the midsole. Thanks so much for watching!
Worn out? Those soles looked to have plenty of life left. Good content though.
Thanks
Truman is expensive shank,plastic,
Fiberglass is pretty strong but it's not steel
Not Truman's... Those appear to be Taft's going by the sole...
Truman Boot Co. in Glazed Harvest leather