Toe Taps
I've noticed the toe on new leather soled shoes are getting chewed up pretty quickly. Are metal toe taps the move and how loud are they in reality?
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indoor tiles may be
it a bit loud, but the concern is about damage wood floor usually.
I have used heel taps on boots before and they were a bit loud but I donβt mind. People definitely look.
yeah I'm not wild about tippy tapping around the city
I guess I'll just keep an eye on the wear and resole with dainite or something when the time comes
If you happen to have a good cobbler near you they may be able to just resole it with a different bottom so itβs more wear resistant?
yeah that's what I'm thinking, burn the leather sole down but get it resoled before the welt takes any damage. Swap with something harder wearing like a dainite sole. I've never had issues with dainite
Iβve resoled boots a few times and itβs genuinely about the cobblers care and what they have available to them.
Kinda wanna put an oversized vibram on a cooked geobasket now
is that even doable, does it have a leather midsole?
you'd end up with something pretty frankensneaker looking
I had Wesco do me up derbies with full lug soles
I mean rick glued his eraser rubber feeling soles to the early ones and stapled it.
Itβs all pretty grotesque
yeah I can't visualise it, I have a deficit of imagination
Right now you can buy Ramones with a whole bottom glued to the bottom of the shoe.
This is aw10 gleam short tongue. The best one 
So how would you add the lugs, strip the glued sole and stitch on a midsole ?
I'm outside the realms of my shoe/boot construction knowledge
Me too tbh Iβm imagining something as disgusting as you.
just it's the kind of disgusting you're looking for
I'd say attaching a midsole and lugs would be hell on the uppers leather too
If cobbler man says it can happen Iβll roll the dice
you'll have one of a kind
This is if I happen on another pair of cooked Geos
Sometimes you forgot you bid on something.
I have a pair of black waxed Ramones that havenβt been worn in years that might need something disgusting
get your cobbler drunk and do his worst
I have metal toe taps on my loafers and they make basically no noise since you're not striking the ground with that part of the shoe like you are your heel.
That's good to hear, I didn't do as much damage as I thought to the toe yet, I think I'll hit up a cobbler about getting taps