Keith and his wife, Carol
ing course presented by well-known
second-generation bootmaker Carl
Chappell in Saint Jo, Texas.
“Each student made one pair;
there were six students that year,”
said Rohwedder. “It was two weeks,
12 hours a day. You learned all he
could cram into you.”
Over the years since, Rohwedder,
who has a shop at his home north
of Weatherford off Ric Williamson
Memorial Highway, has worked to
hone his skills. While he hasn’t kept
a hard count of boots made, he said
he makes about 10 pair a year.
A glance at his boots confirms
Rohwedder is a true artisan, one who
believes “handmade” means just that
— each aspect of the construction is
done by hand, whether the boots are
basic and unadorned or full-blown
fancy stitched and gussied-up with
stars, brands, longhorns, feathers or
sunflowers.
What about store-bought boots?
“You can’t compare a factory boot
to the workmanship of a handmade
boot,” he said. “In a handmade
boot, of course, everything is done
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