Studded Vans

 
This idea was inspired by another tutorial out on the interwebs:

I love the look of these however there's two things I'm not crazy about. One, I don't think I would ever wear pastel blue shoes, and two, these were created with glue on spikes.... a peeve of mine.


I have a pair of well worn Vans Authentics that I will be using for my DIY. You will also need cone spikes (I had English 77's laying around), a butter knife, and you may want to use a hole punch that is made for tooling leather, or in this case pre-punching holes for the flanges on the spikes.

 Start out near the laces, beginning with your center stud and moving outward on either side. This is how you will set the spacing and pattern for your studs.

 Using  butter knife, press the flanges into the center of the cone spike. Doing so will prevent the flanges from catching on your socks or rubbing your feet.

 This is what your first row should look like! As you can see I took the laces out, it made using the butter knife much easier!

 Now stagger the pattern slightly and continue studding down to the toe. Remember, you don't have to be perfect, that's why DIY is soo much fun! The closer to the toe I got, I did have to do some pre-punching.


Here's the finished product! I can't wait to wear them! They were a fun lazy Sunday project!