Padawan got his Visvim Virgil's done via Timpsons, but involved them sending the pair off to their head office. £60 inc the Cristy soles I think he quoted.

I decided to source my Vibram soles separately and have found a Shoe Care (http://www.shoecare.co.uk/) branch locally to do the resoling for £15 (would've charged £60 otherwise and used their own Vibram soles, the style of which were pretty undesirable).

While Shoe Care are probably like Timpsons, their outlets around the UK are listed as Premium Shoe Makers for Vibram by VIbram themselves, so they must have some sort of standard.

Having said that, if I was going for a new leather midsole and/or new welt, I'd send mine off to Shoe Healer (https://www.shoehealer.co.uk/), which I believe Dee has used before for his resoling jobs. That's a bigger job and worth the £65 (excluding cost of soles).

If the leather welt isn't damaged it's worth just getting them resoled and putting off a re-welt as long as possible. I say this as there's a limited amount of times you can re-welt a shoe, I've read it's as few as 3-4 times even if you send them off to the manufacturer where they'd have the original last.

Also the majority of boot makers that use Vibram soles (Visvim and Red Wing included), the soles themselves are glued on and not stitched through the sole to the welt, especially if they're a Cristy (4014) sole as they have no grooves for the stitching. I've only seen stitched Vibram soles (132, 1136 etc.) on a few Vibergs, Wolverines, or where owners who have specially requested it from the cobbler and thus paid more for it.

Then again, you could argue as to how long the leather upper will last, and if you're re-welting every couple of years, you might want to bin the boots after a decade in service…

Bruk can't remember where you are but there's a redwing shop just off carnaby street now, they send them off and clean them up for you as well

I got a pair of RW resoled with vibram through Timpsons a few years ago. Did a perfectly good job, although wasn't exactly cheap. In fact it cost more than the boots originally did!

My moc toes destroyed my feet for the first 3 months or so that I wore them, ridiculously comfy now but there's no way I'd want to go through that all over again.

Wouldn't mind seeing pics of those bruk.

Do look comfy, thought they'd have more colours running through the leather though. Look forward to when mine break.

isn't there sometimes a midsole to vibrams that are stitched through with the welt then the main sole glued to the mid?

Look Bruk

What mink oil are people using and where to buy from?