How To Resole Climbing Shoes At Home, A Beginner Friendly Guide With Tips

Simply, 5 months ago the resole company I was using stopped taking order so I had to find a way to resole my climbing shoes.
What better way than doing it myself ? Well, this is how it started and now people are asking me to do it for them. Therefor after doing more than 20 pairs, I thought I would make a guide for people that wanna do it for themself or other. Here it is in a friendly YouTube format
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8KenED6l4&t=10s
if you have any comment, tips, advice, questions, don't hesitate.

rock climbing wrote:

Try gluing rand rubber to some plywood and use that to support the rubber instead of you fingers. You will get better looking results and save your fingers to get destroyed by climbing

I've started to just use a piece of wood to support the rubber. It actually does make a better finish and save my finger but also makes the works faster since the rubber stay flat.

Thanks for the advice

It's possile to DIY it, but $60 for a resole is probably a much better deal. DIY involves working with some kinda noxious glues that are best handled with ppe, making or buying some sort of a last (form) for the shoes, taking off the old sole with a heat gun, gluing on a new one, and sanding to shape.

Whoever once did this for you $20 is a saint.

robinn nnami wrote:

It's possile to DIY it, but $60 for a resole is probably a much better deal. 

Whoever once did this for you $20 is a saint.

I kinda agree with that statement. To be fair the learning curve isn't easy, it's a long process at the beginning and requires the person who wanna do it to do an upfront investment that is bigger than just resoling couples of pair and then use the time to do it. I see all the cons for just hiring someone to do it.

Where I lives resoling shoes can take up to 2 months to receive which can be problematic and that's if you find someone who does it.

I personally started to do it to save money on the long run and learn a new skill that can be helpful in the climbing community

But I fully agree whoever did it back in the day for cheap was a GOAT