I recently had the pleasure of visiting Jeff Mandel’s Custom shoe shop in Portland with some friends. Jeff’s shoes are completely and lovingly handmade to fit your feet like no shoes has ever before. The tools of his trade are almost as beautiful as his shoes.
Shoe lasts and women’s shoes
Cabinet full of gorgeous examples of Jeff’s fine craftsmanship.
I call this the grinder pounder machine.
Wall of Awls
Bunyons explained
Discussing bike shoes
The tool wall
Slicer dicer aligator
wall of lasts
Jeff Mandel
ExIT Shoes
Example of Jeff’s handmade shoes from his website