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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Sole searching

Today I went to the barn to play with Duke and Gary. I wore my blundstone boots. Duke and Gary had just been turned back out to pasture when I noticed bits of my soles in the barn aisle. The soles literally disintegrated right there. The leather on the boots is still great, so I'd like to resole them. Sadly, here's what Blundstone says about resoling their boots:

Is Blundstone footwear able to be resoled?
There have been many technical advances in footwear construction methods, which enable volume manufacturers to produce a quality product economically. As a company we have expanded our use of this technology, particularly through the use of direct injection sole moulding in preference to the method of 'sticking on soles'. The security of the sole bond and the economies realised through adopting this technology, make it impractical to repair and resole footwear. The Blundstone range consists of soles, which have been directly injected using either polyurethane, nitrile rubber and thermo urethane polyurethane (TPU).

Sigh.