Original Blog Entry: New leather house moccasins [not broken in]

JAP69 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:43:06 GMT

The soles on my old leather moccasins wore. Had them for many, many years and they were stretched and broken in to a perfect fit.

A few weeks ago I decided to purchase new leather moccasins that were for my foot size triple EEEs. They are the correct size but a bit small with having edema bouts up and down. When I tried using them my feet were pinched after a little while.

I set them to one side for the time being to decide how to break them in without pinching my feet. I looked at shoe trees but that did not appear to be a reasonable solution with wide feet. Then I thought about carving my own shoe tree the size of my feet. That seemed like a lenghty process to get them right.

Then a flash of lightning struck outside and the solution came to me.

I will use my old slippers as a form inserting a plastic food bag inside. Mix up enough pourable not to sloppy masonary mortar and stucco mix. Then pour the mix into the old moccasins filling to desired height. Just finished doing that today. I stuck two aluminum wire rods about five inches long in each pour to help stiffen the masonary form.

I wil let that set up and harden. Then I will remove the masonary form from the moccasins and see if it is useable for stretching the new leather moccasins.Should be a perfect fit for the shape of each foot.

If necccesary I can do grinding of the form using my angle grinder.... [ More ]