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Where to have shoes resoled?

Captainstargazer

14-Dec-2012
10:10:54 AM

Hey...so? Traveling climber looking for the best place to have his Sportivas resoled.

Are there any places in Syd/Blue Mountains I can walk into for this? Or is that grumpy ol' dude in Natty the only place to get a decent resole in this country?

(And sorry to the grumpy ol' dude in Natty if'n you follow these boards.)

Thanks!

~R. Kelly Liggin

rodw

14-Dec-2012
10:20:54 AM

Big john does a good job, hes in blackheath..want to be quick though they shut on the 22nd

http://www.bigjohn.com.au/bigjohnretreads

SL212

14-Dec-2012
10:21:50 AM

You'd be looking for Big John's Retreads then.

One Day Hero

14-Dec-2012
10:37:30 AM

Whoa, not meaning to start a war on another one of your threads, but you fuched up pretty bad by bringing worn out shoes over to oz. Resole is gonna set you back as much as a new pair would at home. Now I fully understand the economics, and how 1st world repairers paid real wages fixing products which were built on 3rd world wages kinda kooks the whole thing. But it still sucks balls when you send a pair of great fitting shoes away, pay 75% of the mail order price of a new pair, and they come back unwearable owing to shape and length alterations.

The good Dr

14-Dec-2012
12:42:45 PM

ODH, you have to remember that when you have feet shaped like some DNA recombination experiment gone wrong and your feet resemble a bizzare combination between a fish flipper and a pigs trotter, you are likely to never be happy about resoles.

PS you heading south over Xmas?

salty crag

14-Dec-2012
7:44:23 PM

On 14/12/2012 Captainstargazer wrote:
>Hey...so? Traveling climber looking for the best place to have his Sportivas
>resoled.
>
>Are there any places in Syd/Blue Mountains I can walk into for this? Or
>is that grumpy ol' dude in Natty the only place to get a decent resole
>in this country?
>
>(And sorry to the grumpy ol' dude in Natty if'n you follow these boards.)
>
It's just a veneer, he's really a smiley happy person but likes to look like a grump.
>Thanks!
>
>~R. Kelly Liggin

shortman

14-Dec-2012
8:58:45 PM

On 14/12/2012 The good Dr wrote:
>ODH, you have to remember that when you have feet shaped like some DNA
>recombination experiment gone wrong and your feet resemble a bizzare combination
>between a fish flipper and a pigs trotter, you are likely to never be happy
>about resoles.
>
>PS you heading south over Xmas?

Damo does have mutant feet. I remember doin z double take on his toes....just to be sure.

MichaelOR

15-Dec-2012
9:06:09 PM

Phil's resoles at Arapiles Mountain Shop are very very good. Great turn around via Aust Post too. Phil's been resoling mine for over 20 years. Couldn't be happier with the quality or the service. Go local and support AMS.

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