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- Retired in Minneapolis
I'd bet dollars to donuts that there are very few arbos who don't start and finish their workday doing some rigging. Even before you leave home you're slipping on your boots and snugging up the laces. Having loose boots makes for bad footing the whole day.
Here is a website that will give you more information than will ever be needed about lacing and tieing shoes.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm
There are diagrams of different lacing patterns, too many knot variations, ways of repairing the ends of laces. Nick will be the first to seize the ends of his laces I'll bet
Be sure to post pictures! How do you know how much lace to use? This will be useful for me. I buy spools of 3mm accesory cord for laces, zipper pulls, cat leashes, mini-rigging lines, etc.
A trick that I learned for lacing up my telemark boots has been used on workboots too. On my tele boots I wanted the toe laces super tight, then the lacings at the ankle a little loose to allow flex, then the uppers tight. Another pinhead showed me a trick. Lace up the toes and then make a surgeon's knot with the laces at the eyelets that I wanted to secure. The surgeon's knot is made by passing the laces around each other twice. Kind of like two half hitches. Pull up the slack and then snub off the slack. The SK will hold the toe laces. Then the next set is tied a little loose and finished with a SK. Finish off the top with another tight set. This came in handy when I bought some ice skates that made a hot spot on the top of my arch.
Here is a website that will give you more information than will ever be needed about lacing and tieing shoes.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm
There are diagrams of different lacing patterns, too many knot variations, ways of repairing the ends of laces. Nick will be the first to seize the ends of his laces I'll bet
Be sure to post pictures! How do you know how much lace to use? This will be useful for me. I buy spools of 3mm accesory cord for laces, zipper pulls, cat leashes, mini-rigging lines, etc. A trick that I learned for lacing up my telemark boots has been used on workboots too. On my tele boots I wanted the toe laces super tight, then the lacings at the ankle a little loose to allow flex, then the uppers tight. Another pinhead showed me a trick. Lace up the toes and then make a surgeon's knot with the laces at the eyelets that I wanted to secure. The surgeon's knot is made by passing the laces around each other twice. Kind of like two half hitches. Pull up the slack and then snub off the slack. The SK will hold the toe laces. Then the next set is tied a little loose and finished with a SK. Finish off the top with another tight set. This came in handy when I bought some ice skates that made a hot spot on the top of my arch.
