Where to find soles

[Tengu]

Heres me fancying some new footwear...`Hey, Im a leatherworker, arent I?`

So, I plan to try to make some Calligae.

I have some hobnails but I suspect I will make an enemy of every houseproud wooden floor owner in the country if I use them.

Any suggestions for more modern soles?

 

[Dave]

An old car tyre? You could cut out a bit with the right tread/grip on it.

Stormsure is good stuff for glueing rubber soles on.

Thats what Im planning on doing with my Simms wading boots, as cobblers wont touch them, and I aint sending em back to montana to be repaired.

 

[Gary Elson]

Hi
Mountain bike tyres ?
As they are thinish you might also be able to sew them

Gaz

 

[Dreadhead]

I'm sure you can get either the thin vibram sole rubber or thin cork sole material online via ebay/etsy

 

[leon-1]

Dreadhead is right you should be able to get bits from EvilBay.

However you could also look up chiropody, podiatry and orthotic supplies. Algeos should be under that lot and they'll have soling amongst other things.

 

[Tengu]

Ive had a look on Ebay and fond some nice ones, but they are £15...

 

[Alan 13~7]

In April I got some really nice insoles free from my local M.S.K. (MUSCULOSKELETAL) Podiatry Department...

After 6 months of crippling pain I feared the worst & I thought my Hill walking days were over & with my wife Nagging at me like forever, I finally went to My GP He referred to M.S.K. Podiatry Department... & I was diagnosed with:~

Plantar Fasciitis (Plantar Heel pain)

The bones in my feet had totally collapsed (I had flat feet)
Plantar pad – fat pad atrophy – generalised pain, Plantar Fasciitis – pain at attachment of PF to
Medial calc. tubercle radiates into arch and mets. ,Worse first thing in the morning and on standing.

discharged now I still have a lesser leavel of pain but still painful none the less with strong Painkillers, stretches & physio type exercises I'm told 6 months down the line I will be feeling the benefits...

Alan