Under The Palms

I thought that the white lace eyelets looked kinda "general release"-ish, and didn't blend in very well with the look of the shoe, so I decided to remove the eyelets today. I will be putting some black ones in soon, but it should look the same. What do you all think?

Before:


After:






Did you know they were made as samples?

Very nice. Looks like a scrapped sample without the eyelets. Haha. Definitly a cleaner look though. How'd you do it?

Wow, much better!

I took a small pair of needle nose pliers, and a pair of dikes (wire cutters), and from the back side of the eyelet, I bent the flanges inward, from all sides of the circle, and then took the small needle nose pliers and pushed it out. Then the back side washer just pulls right off, because there's no flange holding that part on. Super easy, once you get the feel for how to get the dikes under the edge of the eyelet flange. You just got to get enough of the tip of the dikes to catch the edge, so it can crush it in. It's a super soft metal, so it bends really easily.

Hmmm I like it without the eyelets...I may do the same and just not replace them

I thought about that too, but I wonder if it will stretch the leather too much? You gotta wear them pretty loose, to avoid the holes becoming oval shaped!

Hmmm, I've never had much issue with my sk8-hi's lace-holes getting stretched out. It's usually only the topmost lace-hole that shows anything like that after a while. These seem a bit bigger though, so it may become more of an issue. I'd say go for the metal eyelets, though! I assume you've already got 'em, so might as well go ahead and do it.

I have to go to Michaels and see if they have the correct sized eyelets in stock. I've seen em before there, but selection was limited.

Maan I wish I could find turquoise eyelets to catch the turq pop in the blanket pattern

You could always just get some turquoise fingernail polish or something and paint some eyelets. That'd be pretty awesome, actually!

You know what...I just might do that haha thanks for the idea

Check it out! Just finished these! What do you think?

Here's the eyelets from eBay. The gold ones came with the tool. The black eyelets were from a different seller.

I already posted the question on the pick up thread. But. . .

Was it difficult to replace the eyelets the white on the black Zero Los bother me. I'd rather have black.

Not to me, they weren't. I posted my answer on that thread as well, but anyone can do this. Really.

Niiice job Guam! I might have to do that...I hope I can find some turquoise or red eyelets though.