Proper leather shoes

I think it's fairly straight forward to make say moccasins, but to make a proper shoe I'd assume you'll need a fair chunk of specialty tools. Would be an amazing thing to learn though

Goodyear welted sole requires special tools. Lasts cost a fortune, even old one's are expensive.

Some of my family were trained shoe makers in Northampton. I am not sure it would be easy to get an apprenticeship there any more because there's only a few companies left.

I pass Church's and Trickers every morning by the way. If you've seen the film Kinky Boots. That's the Trickers factory, from the outside at least. If anyone ever wanted to do the Northampton shoe factory shop run then I 'might' find the time to show them about.