Some of the eyelets in a shoe seem to have developed sharp internal
edges because laces keep breaking. The local cobblers say it's not a job
they can do, but it looks simple; is there any reason not to just buy
some eyelets and a setting tool from eBay and DIY?

"Nospam" wrote in message
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Some of the eyelets in a shoe seem to have developed sharp internal edges
because laces keep breaking. The local cobblers say it's not a job they
can do, but it looks simple; is there any reason not to just buy some
eyelets and a setting tool from eBay and DIY?

When you say local cobbler do you mean those kiosk places that make a living
putting new heals on lady's shoes

You need to find a "proper" cobbler.

tim

You need to find a "proper" cobbler.

tim


If one can be found. Definitely thin on the ground in these parts.

Nick.

On Sep 25, 6:07*pm, "tim....." wrote:
When you say local cobbler do you mean those kiosk places that make a living
putting new heals on lady's shoes

You need to find a "proper" cobbler.

Unless you can find a _good_ "proper" cobbler, you're better with
Timpsons.

On 25/09/2012 19:14, Andy Dingley wrote:
On Sep 25, 6:07 pm, "tim....." wrote:
When you say local cobbler do you mean those kiosk places that make a living
putting new heals on lady's shoes

You need to find a "proper" cobbler.

Unless you can find a _good_ "proper" cobbler, you're better with
Timpsons.

Rather ironic ... 'twas Timpsons that said "we can't get the eyelets"
and a well-established (30+ years) cobbler who said "we don't have an
eyelet machine mate".

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:03:39 +0100, Nospam wrote:

Rather ironic ... 'twas Timpsons that said "we can't get the eyelets"
and a well-established (30+ years) cobbler who said "we don't have an
eyelet machine mate".

Meh, can't you just take a round needle file to the sharp bits?

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Cheers
Dave.

Nospam wrote:
Some of the eyelets in a shoe seem to have developed sharp internal
edges because laces keep breaking. The local cobblers say it's not a job
they can do, but it looks simple; is there any reason not to just buy
some eyelets and a setting tool from eBay and DIY?

If you've a craft shop locally, they sell eyelets and setting tools.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

On 26/09/2012 11:42, John Williamson wrote:
Nospam wrote:
Some of the eyelets in a shoe seem to have developed sharp internal
edges because laces keep breaking. The local cobblers say it's not a
job they can do, but it looks simple; is there any reason not to just
buy some eyelets and a setting tool from eBay and DIY?

If you've a craft shop locally, they sell eyelets and setting tools.


You'll normally only find lightweight stuff in craft shops, not suitable
for lacing leather with any real tension. More robust stuff as used for
horse tack has a washer on the back. Not particularly cheap, hard to
justify for one pair of shoes (unless you like collecting stuff which
might be useful one day of course). Google or ebay.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:29:40 +0100, Nospam
wrote:

Some of the eyelets in a shoe seem to have developed sharp internal
edges because laces keep breaking. The local cobblers say it's not a job
they can do, but it looks simple; is there any reason not to just buy
some eyelets and a setting tool from eBay and DIY?

No reason at all. You could try a rat-tail file, first.