Morgan
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About a week ago I made this post about a pair of new old stock EGs that I'd bought and which had some minor separation around the edge of the sole.
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7446
In answer to my question, bengal-stripe posted this helpful primer on the channeled sole.
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7457
I took the shoes to a cobbler today and asked about re-gluing the edges, but he insisted that he would have to remove the entire bottom layer of the sole, clean it off, and re-glue it. He warned me that the entire sole would crack if I did not do this. When I asked why this would happen to a stitched sole, he got mad, told me that he was a shoe maker, and told me to take my business elsewhere. I was not being confrontational, just asking for greater clarity about the construction of my shoes. All I was trying to determine was whether a channeled sole was both stitched and glued, or whether it was just glued around the edges. At any rate, I am back here asking for more information about these shoes. Will the soles crack and fall apart if I start walking around in them? Or is this a minor cosmetic issue? Is there glue through the whole sole, or just around the channeled edge?
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7446
In answer to my question, bengal-stripe posted this helpful primer on the channeled sole.
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...postcount=7457
I took the shoes to a cobbler today and asked about re-gluing the edges, but he insisted that he would have to remove the entire bottom layer of the sole, clean it off, and re-glue it. He warned me that the entire sole would crack if I did not do this. When I asked why this would happen to a stitched sole, he got mad, told me that he was a shoe maker, and told me to take my business elsewhere. I was not being confrontational, just asking for greater clarity about the construction of my shoes. All I was trying to determine was whether a channeled sole was both stitched and glued, or whether it was just glued around the edges. At any rate, I am back here asking for more information about these shoes. Will the soles crack and fall apart if I start walking around in them? Or is this a minor cosmetic issue? Is there glue through the whole sole, or just around the channeled edge?