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petal · 29-06-2006, 07:22 PM

Copied this off a Shoemaking Terms thread I put on the Geneology Coffee Room a while back. (I got loads of these in my tree.......lol) Hope it helps.

CLICKER:
The clicker cuts out the upper parts of the shoe from the leather. He has always been the elite of the trade. Personal
care and skill is needed for this work in order to gain maximum use of a skin. The ideas of a creative designer are
carried into effect by the clicker.
Martin Skeffington writes, "My father who worked for a firm of slipper manufacturers in Earl Shilton in Leicestershire
was a clicker. He made his own blades for his clicking knife out of old hacksaw blades which were ground at one end
to form an extremely sharp rounded and pointed blade which he used to cut out the uppers for the slippers. He always
told me that the term clicker was derived simply from the fact that as they drew the blade around the pattern the blade made
a clicking sound. Later on in his working life the clicking knife became obsolete in the factory where he worked except for
samples. The main cutting of the uppers were then done on a press known as a clicking press which cut through several
layers of the materials using a metal pattern beneath the press. My father passed away in 1969 and it was only in the 1960's
that the change took place. I would guess the same probably applied in the shoeing industry in Northants."

29-06-2006, 07:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,512 Total Awards: 5	Re: Clicker Copied this off a Shoemaking Terms thread I put on the Geneology Coffee Room a while back. (I got loads of these in my tree.......lol) Hope it helps. CLICKER: The clicker cuts out the upper parts of the shoe from the leather. He has always been the elite of the trade. Personal care and skill is needed for this work in order to gain maximum use of a skin. The ideas of a creative designer are carried into effect by the clicker. Martin Skeffington writes, "My father who worked for a firm of slipper manufacturers in Earl Shilton in Leicestershire was a clicker. He made his own blades for his clicking knife out of old hacksaw blades which were ground at one end to form an extremely sharp rounded and pointed blade which he used to cut out the uppers for the slippers. He always told me that the term clicker was derived simply from the fact that as they drew the blade around the pattern the blade made a clicking sound. Later on in his working life the clicking knife became obsolete in the factory where he worked except for samples. The main cutting of the uppers were then done on a press known as a clicking press which cut through several layers of the materials using a metal pattern beneath the press. My father passed away in 1969 and it was only in the 1960's that the change took place. I would guess the same probably applied in the shoeing industry in Northants."
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