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We Have master shoe repairers & experts available to you 24 hours a day to solve your problems.

You can make friends with hundreds of other Repairers/ Key Cutters/ Engravers etc.

Are you aware that your stress levels can be lowered by chatting to others of a like mind in our chat room.

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Cutting Edge winter 2011
by Lee, Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:00 Comments(0), Read all

The latest Cutting Edge magazine is now available in the downloads section or by clicking the image or link below.


Download the Winter 2011 edition here. ...
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2012 Price survey
by Lee, Tuesday, 06 December 2011 09:55 Comments(0), Read all

The 2012 Price survey is now available in the downloads section.

The prices don’t vary much from the previous survey which we did in February to coincide with VAT changes at the time.

However I was really pleased to see an increase in the amount of members taking part, this makes our survey a really valuable tool as its totally comprehensive & gives a great indication of where we should be setting our own price points.

An interesting graph to look at was the added question “do you tack the waists on leather soles” an almost 50/50 split between the two options! Given the topics we’ve had on the subject in the past this can only fuel the debate!

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Jimmy Mizen foundation newsletter Sept 2011
by Lee, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 09:03 Comments(0), Read all

The latest copy of the forums supported charity "the Jimmy Mizen foundation" newsletter has just been published

download the full copy here
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The Jimmy Mizen foundation.
by Lee, Friday, 07 October 2011 15:22 Comments(0), Read all

We’ve given the Make-A-Wish foundation a fair crack of the whip, we’ve raised £1300 + pounds & feel now is the time to support something a little closer to Home. After several requests we’ve moved to supporting the Jimmy Mizen foundation.

Same reason as before, If you get some help give some help………
The new donation page is
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/shoerepairer
To read the reason why we are supporting such a worthy charity, please read Barry Mizens “Jimmy Mizen my Saturday Boy”
Thank you.
Lee
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ANDY'S ZAPPIFICATION COURSE...
by Lee, Saturday, 01 October 2011 13:00 Comments(0), Read all

ANDY'S ZAPPIFICATION COURSE!

we have a poll running this month "Can you vectorize a logo" & its become apparent that one thing a lot lack is the skills to put your customers logos on items!

Our king of engraving ANDY has kindly agreed to run a course & the way it will work is those taking part will download tasks & images set by Andy & then we will at our leisure use our developing expertise to vectorize the tasks using the forum as a base to discuss & improve our abilities!

"I think if we stick with gravo g5 and 98 software the bones of them are pretty similar to work with start off with a basic image and run with it for a while until most of the people involved have cracked it then we can draw a line under that part and move up to something a little harder maybe ending up with re-drawing a logo by hand instead of vectorisation as long as we dont rush it along i'm sure people can pick up some skills

cheers Andy"

The course is published in the trade section, you can join the trade user group (if your not already a member)HERE..................

We are suggesting a donation to the forum charity if you take part & you can download the first image to play with from HERE.....................,

what are you waiting for lets get started!
CLICK HERE....................zap your logo so you shall


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Supplier of the year award 2011
by Lee, Monday, 26 September 2011 11:29 Comments(0), Read all

I was pleased to present the "Shoe repair forum, Supplier of the year award" at the evening meal on Saturday Evening.

This years Winner was

T. Colledge & son



They had a huge majority of the votes & many nominations specifically mentioned both customer service & their website, with comments such as
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Brilliant website, excellent service and an all round nice friendly firm. Pleasure to do business with them

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Great support, really useful website, being able to purchase single units.

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always helpful sort out problems quickly

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Old school supplier, top service. Great Web site. Friendly family sized business.


announcement topic...........

Lee ...
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10 million browsed pages competition
by Lee, Monday, 26 September 2011 10:30 Comments(0), Read all

Pictured is Stevenb who presented Chiefwiggum ( Danny Mizen ) with his bounty for being the closest to guess when the site would pass the 10 million browsed pages.


He won

A Punch shoe care hamper
500 Charles Birch branded keys
5 Cops of Standard Engineering Geneva thread
4 spoils of SiServe polyester thread
A £50 Gravograph voucher
36 Cans of Shoe String / woly 3x3 Protector
A £100.00 Glenway products sample pack
A T-Colledge bundle of stock goody bag
A Davenports Bianchi 102 Key machine
U-Marq Key tag & Pet Tag starter & display kits
Keyline branded clothing

& no shoe repairer forum competition would be complete with out Maltesers & a £25.00 bumper box was donated by Benchmark.

(All said in a Suzy Perry, gadget show styly)

Thank you to all our sponsors who got 100% behind our prize fund, once again together we gave one of the biggest prizes in shoe repair history! ...
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Member of the year 2011
by Lee, Friday, 01 July 2011 09:20 Comments(0), Read all

Today sees the 6th Birthday of http://www.shoerepairer.info & I’m now pleased to announce the winner of

The Shoe Repair Forum Member of the year award 2011.

Before I tell you the winner there’s a few members who deserve a special mention.

I would like to thank all the sponsors for their continued support of the site, it’s a massive endorsement that our suppliers are still willing to put their names on the site, despite the rants & digs it proves that ultimately we conduct ourselves in a professional manner.

Thanks also to the moderators, their tireless involvement is a massive help to me, with specific thanks to StevenB this year whose spell checking has got me out of a BIG hole in the past couple of months!

With regards to the member of the year award, one member who has never won the award but always stands out as a runner EVERY year from the beginning of the site is Tel200, Even though he’s not prolific on the site he is a great source of back up in a more personal manner on the phone to many, many members & always gets his votes.

Andy also deserves a mention on the roll call with his charitable logo zapping he’s put in a lot of work for others, respect.

Finally a personal thank you from me, thank you to all those people who have helped me in the past 12 months, bits & pieces posted, snippets of info, help, support & phone calls there’s never a day goes by where I haven’t spoken to one of you! & off course thanks to all the chat room regulars “The inner circle” brighten up any dreary day!

So onto our Member of the Year award.

This years winner of a £100 Argos voucher with nomination comments which included

“Very witty and usually gives good sound advice.”

“I usually find his posts amusing and sometimes helpful” ( I laughed at the “sometimes helpful”)

“has been a good help in helping me to get started in engraving”

The 2011 Member of the year is

Rlj - Graham Cawthray from Cawthrays Llandudno

Many congratulations Graham. Perhaps the nomination that summed up your win the best was this one

“I know some people think he's just a sheep shagging old welshy, but last year Graham helped me out by doing an engraving job for me when I didn't have the time to do it after Henry was born. It turned out to be a much longer job than I'd imagined & took him hours & hours to do. He refused to take any payment, settling instead for a donation to the charity. Top bloke. For this alone, he gets my vote. He's always around, gets stuck in & isn't afraid to stir things up, which can only be a good thing!”

O’ yes & this vote which may echo the sentiments above

“cause he shags sheep”

Is there anything you wish to tell us Graham?

On a serious note I think the nominations show us how Graham clearly gives a lot to members that perhaps we never know about, I was once told an ounce of help is worth a ton of pity & it looks like Graham is always at the forefront to help out if he can.

Congratulations rlj - Member of the year 2011.

Lee ...
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Jimmy Mizen my Saturday boy
by Lee, Wednesday, 08 December 2010 13:39 Comments(0), Read all

I have published a fascinating article written by Barry Mizzen on the inspiring story of his work following the death of his son Jimmy


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After Jimmy’s death we were determined that something good would come out of it, and if you look at the website http://jimmymizen.org/ it will give an idea of what we are doing. We held a ‘peace service” in may this year at Westminster Cathedral, we were joined by many other bereaved families


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Cutting Edge directory
by Lee, Tuesday, 09 November 2010 10:36 Comments(0), Read all


As part of the ongoing partnership between ourselves & the CuttingEdge group today we have launched a Cutting Edge members Directory.


Sectioned into 5 areas
Retail suppliers
Horology Suppliers
Shoe Repair Suppliers
Key/Lock Suppliers
Engraving Suppliers

You will find the organizations members details including a brief description of what they do, addresses, phone & fax numbers and all the www. you need to find a supplier for your business.

You can add a comment to the listing (negative comments will be removed) & rate the supplier.

Lee ...
 
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Keys locked in boot Audi A4
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Hi all, i'm a newbie to this so bear with me if i'm doing anything wrong. I was at an Audi A4 2007 with the keys locked in the boot, so i picked the boot lock open but it just spins to next position without opening the boot. I then picked the car open but the back seats do not go down and are fixed to the firewall bulkhead. I picked the ignition round to power the car but the central loc ...

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Posting images on forum topics
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First off all it is worth noting, what is going on when you are struggling to upload a picture. Most cameras & phones now have large resolutions & images coming from them can be many, many megabytes in size.
When you upload you photos, they are stored on our hosting which has a limited space available, couple this with years & years & years (yes we have been around ...

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Cutting Edge Magazine - Spring 2012
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this springs edition of cutting edge has just been uploaded in the download section or you can download it direct from this link

I've written an article on page 6 / 7 about dissolving watch stems from crowns.

Lee ...

by Lee, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:41 [ Read all ]
 
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