Mr.Cheng(Beitou Market New Lane No.4-1 )
Three generations of shoe repair manual Square (founded in 1935)
First Heritage Award winners Grandfather
Q: Why is wanted in this industry?
A: Because this is a well-known cause, so I have to do in this industry.
Q: Which place to ask shoes easily broken?
A: Yes heel, because it is easy to fall off, broken
Q: Will you at work, what is the most difficult part?
A: is the fear that some guests will bargain, very picky.
Q: Will the shoe repair to be ready when those tools?
A: To prepare the knife, hammer, glue, pliers, scissors
Q: What is your business hours are a few to a few?
A: Yes, nine in the morning until three in the afternoon
Q: What does this job occupational injuries?
A: easy to cut knife, a nail stuck to.
Q: May I ask if someone else's shoes broke how to do?
A: it would have to lose money, so I have to be very careful when shoe repair
Q: Will you want to take a few years apprenticeship?
A: To get seven to eight hours to apprenticeship
Q: it is not easy to wear shoes, how bad?
A: To select the fit of the shoes, so your feet will not break the skin, the shoes are not worn.
Q: How to care for shoes to be?
A: You can use rub shoe polish, let the shoes remain smooth.
Q: Are there any shoe repair work particularly memorable experience?
A: There are a very old lady brought in a pair of shoes and some damage, has been insisting to repair, and later found out, these shoes are shoes to send her husband before his death, she has been trying to fix it continues to wear, though he accompanied Mr. like her side. Being moved, so spend a lot of time, effort can be restored to wear shoes. Also, the "angle iron" Now work is already well-known three generations, from the Qing Dynasty, was the great-grandfather, when working with tools, and later, to use Taiwan also brought over, and now has a "one hundred years." the antiques.
Experience Sharing
Mr. Cheng because of the well-known, and his father also repair repair shoes for many years, so it started to repair the shoes of the industry. Mr. Zhang # 1999 from the beginning (which is about three years old), one hundred and three years now, there have been fifteen years. Not only did Mr. Zhang in Beitou market vendors, but also to work in factories, so every day is very busy. He said he was later revised up to heel, that is, with high-heeled shoes, shoes with, the main reason is because the broken broken, broken relationships, and often there are people to repair it. And his most difficult repairs more selective guests love to bargain, so he was very troubled by the most basic tools to repair the shoes have a knife, a hammer, but also for a place to repair tools, not necessarily so. Moreover, Mr. Zhang has said the practice of this kind of shoe repair technical about it almost a decade yet.
When it comes to environmental protection, and now many manufacturers are launching green shoes, green shoes have installed green bottom, but do not wear shoes and environmental protection, all of a sudden broken almost half a year, so it is best not to buy environmentally friendly shoes.
General mostly leather shoes pigskin, cowhide, senior point words alligator or ostrich, elephant skin and even there, but because the relationship between current regulations, no one can do the elephant leather shoes.
Finally, Mr. Zhang took heirloom ---- "iron legs" iron pin is used before the repair shoes, is his grandfather brought from mainland China, so we light.
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