Peelable decisions versus baked ones

Winter hands in Harrisburg are a bad time to bake a verdict. Skin is still negotiating with steam heat. If the caliper is wandering by even 1/64 between the first and second pass, Len wants tape. Tape lets Priya peel in February without throwing a core in the bin. Molded is for palms that have been the same width since the last time they bought shoes.

There is a vanity in molded. It looks clean. It photographs as “done.” Tape looks like a process, which it is. We would rather your handle look like a process than look like a mistake you have to live with until the rubber cracks.

Undersize palms almost always want tape in places, even on a molded body, because the heel pad is not a cylinder. Cylinders are for dowels. Hands are not dowels, despite what a catalog drawing suggests.

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