Barge All Purpose Cement Rubber Leather Shoes Waterproof Glue 1 Qt O.946 L

Barge is great for leather work. I have tested others and wasted time and money with them. Pay the extra and get this stuff. Be careful with the fumes though. Got a little woozy.

I use barge cement for Leather work. It is awesome and figuratively speaking it welds the Leather together. If you want something to never come apart again, this is it. My only complaint was the company that supplied it shipped it with the lid not tightly screwed down. Thank goodness, they put it inside a plastic bag, and thank goodness it only leaked a bit. It was a bit of a chore to clean up the can,

Best glue I've ever found! Truly works - on soft flexible as well as solid immovable items. You can glue your own shoes back together!

Barge shoe contact cement is a very professional product. I have been using different contact cements over the years and Barge has proven to be something that I continually use over and over. This quart sized can of Barge is the best price per ounce that I can get on Amazon. If the soles of a pair of shoes begins to separate, this is the way to get it repaired properly. Be sure to follow the directions completely. Make sure each surface is perfectly clean before applying the glue. Sometimes I'll use acetone or lacquer thinner on the old glue surface, applying it with a 1-in chip brush to reactivate the old glue and get it soft enough to apply new glue to. This process will allow it to obtain a solid bond between the surfaces that you are regluing. You can bond the two surfaces together but only after it's completely dry. I would probably wait a half an hour to an hour before contacting the two surfaces together with high pressure. You can use a hammer to contact it down properly or you can use a clamp to clamp them together over the length of the repair. If done properly the repair will last as long as the shoes.

I was a wardrobe dresser many years ago for broadway shows, and this was the industry standard to repair costume shoes for the shows. Recently my wife had a pair of shoes where BOTH soles completely came off while she was out on the town, not sure I wanna know what she was doing when that happened or how it happened. Anyway, found this on Amazon and said to myself “I remember this stuff” so I bought some, and the night it came, I glued the soles back on the shoes then clamped them overnight. In the morning, I had my wife try them on, and she declared good as new!!