SoleHeeled offers convenient and affordable Blundstone boot repairs by Australia’s best craftsmen, with free shipping to your door. This case study outlines how we recently repaired a customer’s Blundstone boots.
The boots
Blundstone boots are work boots constructed to work as hard as their wearers do, bearing the brunt of hard labour on worksites across the country. However, the rubber unit soles on this pair had begun to disintegrate, beyond repair. When this customer reached out to us for a free diagnosis/quote, we offered to replace the soles with a pair of new Vibram rubber soles.
Full resole
Blundstone boot resoles are harder than they look. Unfortunately, the boots are not constructed in such a way that facilitates resoles — in particular, the boots don’t have a welt (a layer of leather between the rubber soles and leather uppers) into which a new pair of soles can be stitched. Rather, the soles on Blundstones are fused into the uppers.
What we end up needing to do to resole Blundstone boots is:
Remove the old soles, carefully so as to avoid damaging the bottom of the uppers.
Install a ‘randing’, to live between the uppers and the new rubber soles as a sub-sole of sorts, in place of a welt.
Attach a new pair of rubber soles, glueing them against the randing with a heavy duty, but flexible glue.
In this case, we used Italian-made Vibram rubber soles, which are heavy treaded to offer superior traction and made of a high-grade rubber compound for optimal longevity.
Have a pair of Blundstone boots needing repair or restoration?
Our experienced craftsmen have been trusted by not only generations of Australians but also local and international brands (including Versace and Canali) with the repair and restoration of boots since 1955. If you have a beloved pair of Blundstone boots in need of repair or restoration, ask us for a free diagnosis/quote by completing our online order form — where you can upload photos of the boots and let us know exactly what you would like done to them, or let us advise you on what the boots need based on the photos.
SoleHeeled serves all of Australia through its free 2-way shipping service:
Order online: Answer a few questions to get an instant quote and complete your order.
Send your boots: Drop your boots off at a local post office for free packaging and shipping to us.
We repair: A team of experienced craftsmen will carefully repair your boots.
We return: We'll deliver your repaired boots to you, wherever you are in Australia.
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