Vintage style handmade solid brass welt mill used to thin leather welts to required thickness. Used by shoes & boots makers, cobblers and DIY shoe enthusiasts. Reproduced with difficulty this exceptional quality tool which was originally made by T Temporal of Sheffield. Beautyful small hand machine to make your own hand welts. 

• Handmade by shoemaker with 20 years of experience.
• Made in England. 
• Material pure brass bedded on oak wood
• Size 120 by 25 by 25 mm
• 9 steps welt mill.
• Welt mill steps size tappers from 5 mm to 3 mm
• Welt mill channel size accepts 20 mm wide welts.
• Welt Mill is used to thin, and level uneven welts cut from shoulder leather. Make your own welts children shoes, ladies, men's, stout boots and shoes etc. The step notch on the welt mill allows you to create different types of welts for different types of handmade footwear ranging from 5 mm to 3 mm thick.

Instructions in brief:

• Place and hold the welt mill on left knee with the leather stirrup
• Use a sharp broad blade
• Trap the welt mill with a leather loop strap and secure it with your left foot
• Place the 20 mm wide leather welt on to welt mill brass channel with grain side downward
• Now place the blade on one the inclined brass step depending on the thickness of the welt required
• Ensure that the blade sits inclined
• Now pull the leather welt gradually to create even thickness welt
• This is the way to create a uniform level welts
• The brass step has nine positions allowing for various thickness's to be prepared