Breaking out the lasts while making this pair of leather boots! Here the lasts have served their purpose in providing the form to shape and stretch the leather of the boots onto, and now they gotta get out to provide some more flexibility and accessibility for the upcoming sole stitching and sanding steps. This used to be a lot more of a wrestling match process, I guess my glue work is not quite as sloppy as before so these things slide out pretty easy now. My new set of lasts that arrive this w

Breaking out the lasts from this leather boot build! Now is the time to liberate these boots of the clunky hunks from which they took their form, and prepare them to serve some real life feet. This set of lasts doesn’t have metal plates on the bottom of the heels to I gotta bust them out at this point in order to glue and nail the heel stacks on a metal foot plate jack. #asmr #howitsmade #satisfying #handmadeboots #bootmaking #leatherboots #stitchdown #ruggedstyle #heritagestyle #bootmaker #mens

The start of it all- making the last. It’s one of the many differences that set our custom boots apart. Each boot takes at minimum 40 man hours to build. Everything is made in America with no synthetics or plastics. We use the highest quality materials. No mass production here! Because of this, Republic Boot Co. stands by our products and offers a life-time guarantee. #customboots #customcowboyboots #handmade #leather #leatherwork #lasts #bootlasts | Republic Boot Co