Good, not the best.
I'm a professional cobbler and we have worked with these in the past. Why in the past, you may ask? Because the color does not match like others available at select high end cobblers.<br />These are thin and they are supposed to be used to extend the life of your lightly worn shoes and keep the red color on the sole and not to patch up shoes.<br /><br />Keep in mind it is highly recommended to not install these soles on your shoes on your own but have a professional install them for you.<br /><br />To install:<br />pre-work. You may want to tape off your shoes with blue painters tape before you do anthing to not ruin your uppers.<br />1. line up this half sole to your shoe sole and mark were you are going to place it and line up to make sure the pair are going to be identical<br />2. rough up and/or sand both the shoe sole (yes, you have to remove the red paint on the shoe sole) and the half sole where you are going to put on the contact cement<br />3. use only barge contact cement or anything stronger like renia kelbfest as the adhesive, shoe goo will not work and it will separate in just a couple wears<br />4. apply contact cement and let dry about 15-30min (depending on directions of the cement) until tacky then apply half soles to shoe soles<br />5. once half soles are applied, let dry at least 12 hours<br />6. trim with heavy duty scissors or x-acto knife<br />7. finish edge with 150 gt sandpaper, then 220 gt to make a nice edge<br /><br />These are probably the easiest job we do, but someone without the right tools will have a hard time getting it right.
Rating: 4 stars