Before the wooden
shoe maker starts with boring the holes, both wooden shoes
need to be fastened in the "boring bench". This fastening
needs some handiness because the wooden shoes should not
fall out of the bench. The wooden shoe maker uses some
wedges and filling pieces as shown in the right figure.
Photo 23 shows that the first filling piece is placed
in-between both wooden shoes. Therefore this particular
piece has a very characteristic shape.
The space that's still left outside of the pair of wooden
shoes is filled with rectangular filling pieces or little
blocks. Then everything is fastened very tightly with a
final wedge (photo 24). The wooden shoe maker has both his
hands free now for boring.