{"id":584,"date":"2010-06-02T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2015-08-27T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:50:46","slug":"soft-star-shoes-kinda-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/06\/02\/soft-star-shoes-kinda-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Star Shoes Kinda Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Soft<\/a>

The unique and comfortable Soft Star Ramblers I designed<\/p><\/div>\n

Back in February of this year, I found out about Soft Star Shoes<\/a><\/strong> (521 Southwest 2nd St.<\/a>, Corvallis, OR) from the The Running Barefoot Yahoo! Group<\/a><\/strong>. I was impressed that they were minimal shoes to begin with, but more that they could be day-to-day shoes that could be worn comfortably. I actually ordered off-the-shelf to start with in two sizes which they shipped out and allowed me to return before designing custom Ramblers. They were even nice enough to send a swatch book of leather so I could really get a feel for the colors. I picked chocolate brown and purple. I had a minor problem after just a short time with them: one the split uppers was more split on one side than the other. They happily took the return and made a minor fix that corrected the problem.<\/p>\n

Well, after just about 1 month, I had worn a hole clear through one of the soles. I don't think I was being unusually hard on them — I probably walked no more than 50 miles. I had also made a point of mentioning that I was looking for a long-wearing sole, as they had several options available. They suggested their thin rubber sole which they said is \"durable and will last a long time\". Maybe we just disagree on what's meant by a \"long time\", but I am very disappointed. As such, I decided to make sure \"Soft Star Shoes\" and \"Suck\" appear in the title, as that's how I assess new products with a simple Google search.<\/p>\n

\"Car<\/a>

Bridgestone Potenza RE-92 soles are H-rated for 149 miles per hour<\/p><\/div>\n

However, since I liked the style, I decided to have car tires cut to match the soles and stitch the uppers to that. I had made tire sandals before using a reciprocating saw with a metal blade, but the edges weren't well defined and I wanted holes to stitch through. I decided to go with Nifty-Bar, Inc.<\/a><\/strong> (450 Whitney Rd.<\/a>, Penfield) who I use for work for their water-jet cutting services. I provided an outline and asked that small holes be laid out along the edge about 1\/4\" apart. The water-jet machine made nice cuts through the rubber and various steel belts in the tire.<\/p>\n

I took apart the Ramblers and reassembled them successfully with tire soles. I don't think I'll have to worry about wearing them out anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in February of this year, I found out about Soft Star Shoes (521 Southwest 2nd St., Corvallis, OR) from the The Running Barefoot Yahoo! Group. I was impressed that they were minimal shoes to begin with, but more that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,32,611],"tags":[1547,1552,1546,1549,1550,1548,1551],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barefoot-running","category-blog-entries","category-day-to-day","category-for-the-parents","tag-nifty-bar","tag-ramblers","tag-soft-star-shoes","tag-tire-sandals","tag-tire-soles","tag-tires","tag-water-jet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}