I'm getting older (I'm in my 40s now) so bending down becomes more of an effort! Lol. So I decided it was time to make a bootjack for the house.
I wanted one that looked nice and had a bit of grip for the other boot. That made the production of it quite fun as a bit of something extra to work out.
As usual I filmed the production process, so you can watch the video below.
A simple project that shouldn't take more than a few hours to make and be useful for many years to come!
Maybe I need to make a shoe horn next!
When I was a young boy, boot jacks used to be outside every front door. I can't remember the last time I saw one but it has probably been nearly 35 or 40 years. I'm not sure why they fell out of favor.
ReplyDeleteFunny isn't it, the things that go in and out of fashion? I remember boot brushes as well you could run you foot between.
DeleteMany years ago, my grandfather had poured a block of cement and embedded an ice skating blade into the top surface of that and it sat outside the front door so allow us to scrape mud off the bottom of our shoes before we would then use the nearby boot jack to remove them. It was a hands free process!
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