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Since
the 1970's there has been a tradition of quality rock shoe resoles in
the Eastern Sierra. First, Wheeler's Boot Repair and later Wilson's
Eastside Sports assembled a team of master cobblers and set the
standard for performance resoles. Since 1981, Tony Puppo has been part
of that team, Nan joined the team in 1996. 21 years, 3 shops,
dozens of elves and over 40,000 pairs of shoes later, that tradition
continues in the Rubber Room.
Take
a look around the shop... (follow the sequence of shoe repair from left
to right, top to bottom)
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Rosanne
enters shoes into the computer |
A
Mythos needing a half-sole and rand repair |
First,
Nan sands off the half-sole |
A
Mythos with the half-sole sanded off |
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damaged rand portion is cut away |
Asyms
ready for a new rand patch |
Paul
applies a rand patch
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Half-soles
prepped for application |
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Autosoler presses the new half-soles to the shoe |
Tony
gives them a final touch-up sand |
Sanding
Close-up |
And
there you have it, the final product |
