[TheForge] OT work boots

[Bob Ehrenberger]

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>.Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:18:01 -0300
>From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
>Subject: [TheForge]  [OT] Re: Cobbler tool for blacksmiths
>
>wrote:
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>So now I'm hoping to find (a) a retailer that has dusty stock or has
>been shuttered with stock in place or (b) some contact at that (former)
>corporate customer who can find a pair or two overlooked somewhere in
>*their* back warehouse.

We had a local hardware store colse a few years ago.  I friend of mine 
bought some Justen boots that they had in a back room.  When he started to 
ware them they just fell apart at the seems.  He contacted Justen about it 
they told him that they hadn'r made that model boot for at least 30 years, 
and the threads were just rotted.  They did stand behind their boots and 
replaced them.

The point being, finding a store with old stock may not be such a good 
thing.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net