Cobbler in the making

Thanks Stephen! Agreed about the eyelets. I was just trying to make a copy of the Montana which doesn't have eyelets. The leather I'm using is a hybrid-tanned water buffalo and it is definitely stretchier than the stuff Birkenstock uses. If I were to use it again, I thought that maybe I'd need to wet it and then stretch it out (which I don't know how I would do that exactly). But that would probably make the leather stiffer, which would have some pros and cons. This was a fun project. I'm really not much of a Cobbler. I traced the shape of the shoe of an existing pair of Montanas to get a pattern. I bought the footbeds and then added a couple details like the stitching and the copper rivets. I'll probably try making another pair. Maybe some kind of two toned color version