Peter Limmer, a fifth generation bootmaker in his family, is still making hiking boots by hand, one boot (or, one pair of boots) at a time, measuring, cutting, gluing and hammering away at his ...

Limmer boots are indeed legendary in the boot world. They’re true boot brutes the Limmer Standard ($325; www.limmerboot.com) has leather that’s 3.2 millimeters thick, half again what is found on most ...

Peter Limmer is a 5th generation boot maker and his family's black boot is known around the world. Limmer dates back 100 years and Peter Limmer talk to us about what he thinks the next 100 might hold ...

“I’m a fifth-generation boot maker, and I don’t think any of the men in my family were ever talked into the job,” says Pete Limmer, who joined the family shoe business right out of high school in the ...

Lasting pincers: These two blue-handled tools are part leather grabber, part hammer, used to stretch and form leather over a foot model. Foot models and boot stretchers dangle from the workbench at ...

FUTURE OF PETER LIMMER AND SONS IS UNKNOWN BUT IT MAY LIE IN THE HANDS OF A FORMER BANKER. ♪ >> WE GET IN HERE EARLY IN THE MORNING. LIKE I SAID, MY WIFE GETS MAD AT ME BECAUSE I CAN’T WAIT TO GET IN ...