Ken Diamond on the Rare Satisfaction of Making Boots by Hand
Back in the 2010s, Ken Diamond had a booming moccasin business in Vancouver—celebrities wore his shoes, which also secured a hallowed spot on the shelves of Istetan, the Tokyo department store that's ...
9 Jan 202450min
Curtis From Alden Madison on How to Size Into Any Last, and That One Time He Saw Harrison Ford
Alden Madison is one of the essential New York City shoe stores, stocking and selling more Alden shoes and boots than likely anywhere else in the world. This week, Ben and Ticho sit down with shop c...
5 Dec 20231h 16min
Shoebag!! Craziest Break-In Stories, Plus Ticho & Ben's Only Five Forever Pairs: Revisited!
Long, long ago, Ben & Ticho did a Shoecast episode in which they had to (just for pretend, don't worry) get rid of all their shoes and boots—FOREVER—and only keep five pairs that just made sense for t...
28 Nov 20231h
Cutting it Up With Cobbling Legend Steve Doudaklian of Bedo's Leatherworks
Ten years ago, Steve Doudaklian looked at a camera, said “good morning shoe repair family”, fixed up some shoes, and put a grainy video on YouTube as a service to cobblers around the world. A decade ...
21 Nov 20231h 17min
Sarah Guerin aka Saboteuse Knows More About Massachusetts Shoemaking History Than Anyone Alive
To call Sarah Madeline Tierney Guerin an incredibly skilled cowboy boot maker would be accurate—and also highly incomplete. Sarah is also an artist, a historian, an educator, a storyteller, a preserva...
8 Nov 20231h 19min
Boot Camp!!! Ben & Ticho Recap Our Inaugural Fine Leather Footwear Gathering
So, Ticho forced Ben to talk about Boot Camp, the fine leather footwear gathering / world's fair of boots and shoes and leather / celebration of shoemaking / big ol' party that Stitchdown just put on ...
31 Okt 202353min
Grenson's Tim Little on UK vs Outsourced Manufacturing, Triple Welts & "Throwing Away the Pompous Bit"
“Let’s just change it up a bit” is how Tim Little describes his approach to shoe design for Grenson. It might as well be Tim's ongoing mantra. After years in advertising—including handling the Adidas...
24 Okt 202353min
Fifth-Generation Tanner Ed Gallun on Milwaukee's Leathermaking History, What Separates Great Leather from the Rest, and More
Ed Gallun was born into tanning—and even though the American tanning industry isn't what it once was for much of the life of the tannery his great-great-great grandfather started in 1858 in Milwaukee,...
2 Okt 202350min
