Woodworking Tip #3: Old Sole Eraser

This seems especially apropos on the day news broke of the oldest shoe ever found, in Armenia.  So earlier this week when my work boot began running off at the mouth I knew this old shoe now had new purpose.  The soft soles of work boots make great "erasers" to clean sanding belts and discs, though you will find that the most any other "rubber" bottomed shoe sole will do the trick too. The shoe pictured is not 5500 years old, but it was just replaced by a lesser old shoe.