Back in 2021, I got a great email from a young bootmaker named Nathan Florsheim who wanted to chat. Boy am I glad I took that call.
About a year later I had Nathan—great great great grandson of Milton Florsheim, yes, THAT Florsheim—on the Shoecast. Four years and 130 handmade pairs later, Nathan is absolutely rolling as a custom bootmaker who has truly seemed to find his own space, one that so many clients want to inhabit as well.
So along with the man they call Ticho, we caught up about what’s changed in that time with his technical and ordering process, why slow is actually really good, how he finally set up a workshop that really works for him, the tallest man in the world’s Florsheim boots, and obviously, plenty more.
Also Nathan just so happened to open his order books right when this episode dropped, but it’s not THAT easy to get onto his client list. So of course we made a second bonus episode for subscribers in which Nathan shares the best ways to have success putting in for an order.
That bonus episode is available on our Premium Subscribers feed—head right here to learn more about Stitchdown Premium, our very excellent private discord, and how to get access to that episode.
Give our most recent Nathan a listen or watch below:
Or Nathan’s original episode—it’s a really interesting and just cool snapshot in time of a hugely talented maker when he was still just embarking.
And check out the extensive Shoecast archives right here
Or watch the episodes—and plenty of other wonderful stuff—that we’ve also put on our YouTube channel
Stitchdown Premium subscribers get access to bonus Shoecast episodes, our private (and excellent) Discord server, and entry to the Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome.