Sof SoleShoe Goo, Black

Works great. Able to repair the rubber trim on my new hiking boots. Easier than I thought.

Best adhesive I have ever seen. I use in my skate shoes to do skateboarding. I cover the point of the shoe which I use to do ollies/tricks just not to rip the chamois or the shoe. It works perfect generating a thin layer protecting my shoes to be ripped when I do ollies.

I have used this product for over 15 years. One tip. After the application allow the product about two days to harden. If you walk on it too soon it squishes down and does not last at all. If you wait and it hardens it lasts a long time. I have always used the clear, and purchased it locally. This is my first time using the black. I put this stuff on new shoes and it greatly extends the life of the sole. Make sure you use some kind of solvent to clean the sole thoroughly before you apply it. If you do, it is really, really hard to remove it, thus it does not separate and come off. When it gets too thin I replace it and that is when I notice how hard it sticks to the sole.UPDATE. If the heel is worn, you can put the goo on thicker, you just might have to wait for several days for it to get hard. Do not wear the shoe if the goo is soft at all. It will get rock hard. If you walk on it when it is sill soft the goo will flatten out. I have also used it for the first time as a glue. I have a pair of hiking off trail shoes that the sole started to separate. I cleaned the surfaces then put the goo between the two layers and used C clamps to hold the sides together. I gooed the heels and in a few days will be ready to wear the shoes for another year or so.

This is probably best applied to underside of a shoe. I used it on the upper toe area between boot toe and sole, to prevent the sole from detaching further, and I'm not crazy about the shiny look of the Shoe Goo when it has dried. It would be nice if the stuff had an applicator tip that would squirt a narrower 'shot' of goo into a more specific area; it just seems sloppy, with excess having to be removed with a popsicle stick or what-ever; use too much, it'll be Fugly. Use too little, it's not really a 'repair'. Well, it just keeps your shoe or boot truckin' along until you get disgusted enough to get something new. I'd like to think few people have time to stare at my feet anyway.

Works well on my black vibram soles of my Vibram Fivefingers KSOs.The KSO style five fingers are really quite wonderful in many ways, they are made with Kangaroo leather for the right amount of elasticity. I do love the feeling of walking barefoot, but with just the right amount of protection that they offer.Part of that protection is the thin, firm and grippy vib soles, which wear though. I looked at my sole one day and I had just worn through my vibram to the leather. ...So I looked around and found this Shoe Goo.I smeared a pretty thick coat on, let it set for 3 days, and hey what a great mend! The black works well on the black vib. The soles grip, flexibility and protection characteristics are back to great.At first I was a bit worried, some thicker goo high spots seemed to wear off very quickly, but the parts down a the sole level have lasted two or three months now. Much better than I was expecting.This has been a great product that has extended the life of my beloved (but weird looking) shoes. Just what I was looking for.

Works on small shoe holes but splits on chairs and damages the chair further.

So being a former skater kid... Shoe Goo was there for me and my parents when I would trash a new pair of skate shoes within 2 months and I would get creative on reconstructing my kicks and making them last longer than any other shoe being rubbed against heavy duty sandpaper (grip tape) on a daily!Now flash forward 20 years and I now have a 6 year old son, who wears out his kicks within the same period time by just normal play on the playground. My mom had bought him a nice pair of Kevin Durant's Nikes that torn within a week at the toe since the material was mesh. I thought about a ways to fix them and I remember about my skater days and Shoe Goo... Sure enough with some painters tape I was able to make some rubber toe caps on his shoes and they lasted for months until he grew out of them. Shoe Goo can help adhese the soles of your shoes if they are falling off to building a protective barrier against unusual wear and tear due to rubbing. I recommend it and if you are going to spread it, make sure to have a plastic disposable butter knife or popsicle stick to even it out!

My husband and I fast walk four miles three times a week on a chip sealed gravel road. That road has been been very hard on our shoes, but when our dog's feet were getting cut and raw we got her dog shoes. Then the same thing started happening to her shoes. That is when we thought we would try the original black Shoe Goo. Oh my goodness, wish we would of tried it a long time ago. We would have saved a lot of money on shoes. We apply it to all of our shoes and it lasts quite awhile. But for us, it does gradually need more especially on the outer part of the heel. Easy to work with and apply. It does just as it says, rebuilds, protects, repairs and it is waterproof.