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Step 3Prepare the hollow heels
This is the relatively complicated bit.
Remove the existing heels, and replace them will hollow compartments, that use studs to help the lits lock on.
The heel can be made from three pieces of wood that form the sides and rear of the heel. A small piece of wood or metal can then be used to mostly close the front of the compartment, leaving enough room for the telephone antenna or headset charger as appropriate.
A screw in one corner of the heel through a sheet of aluminium works satisfactorily. You can then use contact cement to glue a thin rubber sheet over the metal after you have screwed it into the heel.
Embedding studs into the wood and metal so that when it is being stood on, it cant open or rotate.
Then a clasp on the side of the heel and welded to the metal lid (this is where using steel would make it easier than aluminium, so you don't have to have to worry about oxidation) is all you need to allow it to stay shut when you walk around.
A permanent pen works well to reduce the visibility of the clasp.
Now, I cheated a fair bit here, by using the services of a family friend who is a cobbler, who had a ball of a time working on it. I can heartily recommend this method. But if you have to do it yourself, and are handy with tools, you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Either way, make sure that you make the compartment sufficiently big enough to fit the phone of your choice. I'd recommend allowing a few extra millimetres in the vertical direction, because the lid has a habit of bending inwards over time, especially if you use fairly thin aluminium like I did.
Some padding is probably a good idea to avoid unnecessary scratching. You might need to cut some notches in the padding if you use a phone like the V620 that has buttons on the outside, otherwise it might press buttons while you walk. (This happened to me early on, with the result that my shoe left a message on my mobile phone, and would have made any spy service proud with the way it picked up the conversations around me. Of course, pretty much this trick has been used by the KGB since the 1950s.
Remove the existing heels, and replace them will hollow compartments, that use studs to help the lits lock on.
The heel can be made from three pieces of wood that form the sides and rear of the heel. A small piece of wood or metal can then be used to mostly close the front of the compartment, leaving enough room for the telephone antenna or headset charger as appropriate.
A screw in one corner of the heel through a sheet of aluminium works satisfactorily. You can then use contact cement to glue a thin rubber sheet over the metal after you have screwed it into the heel.
Embedding studs into the wood and metal so that when it is being stood on, it cant open or rotate.
Then a clasp on the side of the heel and welded to the metal lid (this is where using steel would make it easier than aluminium, so you don't have to have to worry about oxidation) is all you need to allow it to stay shut when you walk around.
A permanent pen works well to reduce the visibility of the clasp.
Now, I cheated a fair bit here, by using the services of a family friend who is a cobbler, who had a ball of a time working on it. I can heartily recommend this method. But if you have to do it yourself, and are handy with tools, you shouldn't have too much trouble.
Either way, make sure that you make the compartment sufficiently big enough to fit the phone of your choice. I'd recommend allowing a few extra millimetres in the vertical direction, because the lid has a habit of bending inwards over time, especially if you use fairly thin aluminium like I did.
Some padding is probably a good idea to avoid unnecessary scratching. You might need to cut some notches in the padding if you use a phone like the V620 that has buttons on the outside, otherwise it might press buttons while you walk. (This happened to me early on, with the result that my shoe left a message on my mobile phone, and would have made any spy service proud with the way it picked up the conversations around me. Of course, pretty much this trick has been used by the KGB since the 1950s.
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