Rock & Resole

Love this place, they do a great job (a little sloppy with the glue) but you generally see your shoes in a week.

This review is for the mail-​in resole service.
Workmanship: Excellent, no complaints! Shoes came back looking great, with brand new soles. I even had a nice new edge for a couple weeks before I wore it down again. I also asked them to replace the Velcro on the straps, which they did a great job with as well! I’ve been using the new soles and Velcro for about 5 months, the soles are still in good shape and the Velcro remains sticky — incidentally, the Velcro Rock & Resole used was much better than the original La Sportiva Women’s Miura VS Velcro, which lost it’s stickiness almost completely after a month of regular use.
Customer Service: Overall, great! Before sending in my shoes, I emailed to ask how much it would cost to have the Velcro on my shoes replaced. Rock & Resole emailed me back quickly, gave me a quote, then charged me exactly that for their work. For the soles, I sent it in and just told them to do what needed to done. They did the standard half resole, which is exactly what I expected and the final charge was exactly as I expected as well. I can’t remember exactly how long it took them to get my shoes back to me, but I do remember that I got them back much sooner than I was anticipating. The only minor complaint I have with the customer service is that they don’t tell you when they’ve received your shoes, or when they’re shipping them back to you.
Pricing: Before deciding who to use, I compared a few of the more well known online /​mail-​in climbing shoe resole companies. All 4 seem to be fairly consistent in their pricing.
It looks like Rock & Resole did a website redesign since I used them, which I think looks great! I really like that they added a bunch of useful information to their site that didn’t used to be there, including some more detailed pricing information.
Overall, I had an excellent experience resoling my shoes with Rock & Resole. I intend to use them next time I need a resole, and would definitely recommend them!

Dropped a pair of Katana’s in here for repair. I had waited far too long to have them resoled and had since blown through both toe boxes and done some damage to the leather. Luckily Rock and Resole exists! After the obligatory lecture from the folks here about not trashing my shoes, they told me they could most likely repair them for a smidge more than they normally charge. Which was still reasonable amount!
A week later picked them up and was impressed with the workmanship. The rubber soles were repaired well, the toes were also fixed good as new. The quality of the seam between the old rubber and new was high quality as well. After climbing on them for two full sessions now, I can say I think they will hold up well and the rubber they used was top notch, smears well and climbs great.

I have used the Rubber Room for years to resole my shoes. But their turn-​around time is 5 weeks and I couldn’t wait that long. Other resolers had limited rubber options. Rock and Resole had the options I wanted.
I contacted them via email. They responded immediately and were extremely cooperative. I sent my shoes and then emailed them when tracking showed the shoes had arrived at the shop. They pulled my shoes out of the pile and had them resoled and back in the mail in 2 days. I wore them today, about a week from when I sent them. The soles are great and climb better than the originals (Katanas).
I will recommend Rock and Resole to everyone.

Good turn around time. But after 2.5 months of Indoor Climbing, just twice a week, the rubber is opening up on one of my La Sportiva Mythos shoes. It appears as a tear right above the seem at the tip of the toes. Plenty of rubber left, but now I have an opening that shouldn’t be there, and now that I can see in, there seems to be a «gap» or air space between the leather and the rubber, perhaps that led to this opening. Pretty bummed after spending $ 40 to be out of commission again in less than 80 days. Of course, no real way to follow up with these guys.

This is *the* place to get knee pads for those crazy knee bars at Jailhouse, Rifle, etc. I got my first pair last Feb and they’ve helped me send two projects at Jailhouse. :)

I’m lucky enough to live right down the street — walking distance, but I’m lazy so I ride my bike. Unfortunately, unlike the millionaire Big M here, I don’t climb every day (you should read that review!), but finally did wear my edges down without wearing through parts I shouldn’t.
Had a pair of Katanas and TC Pros resoled, C4 and Onyx were my choices for new rubber. I haven’t climbed in them yet, especially since we are in the middle of a biblical rainstorm and the city is half underwater.
I was pretty happy with how the workmanship looked and was especially happy that the loose flaps of rubber on my TCs were glued back down as part of the repair. Turnaround was 2-​days and they were ready when they said they would be.
For those of you mailing things in — they always have piles of boxes on the counter there when I go in. They aren’t slacking off, drinking coffee/​beer and flirting with the cute climber girls dropping off their shoes (ok, maybe they are, I hope they are). Anyways, they are really busy there, but focused on getting shoes done. They minimally greet me as I walk in the door — they clearly want to be getting work done, not writing order tickets and chatting with me — I’m ok with that, I didn’t have anything that interesting to say, except a curiosity about whether they’d apprentice me for a month. ;)
My advice, give them a try!
Side note — the sign in the door (or was it the website?) says that they are no longer resoling hiking books — it’s clear that they have enough climbing shoe business!

I’m a firefighter and my duty boots split a seam. On a whim, I dropped by to see if they would help a guy out. After a nice chat about VW diesels, the owner himself repaired the seam on a treadle machine. Took him no time at all — he charged me $ 1. I don’t know anything about climbing, but this place rocks!

ok, eventually i did get my shoes back. 3 stars for doing a good job resoling, but FOR TAKING FOREVER. don’t send your shoes in less than a month before you have a trip planned, because you might not get them back in time!

New resole of La Sportiva Muira at R&R… Climbing 3 days/​week, gym only. They lasted 2 month! At $ 40 per resole, in 6 months, I could’ve bought a brand new pair that would’ve lasted more than 2 months. Unless R&R are willing to do a better job, I’m not going back.

I don’t have time to write reviews, as I am a very rich business man. I look forward to climbing after a long day making serious cash. I bike to my local mountain (I’m in Florida, so that’s road ramp foundations, trees and gym walls, and office building facades). I really like the shoes I have. La Sportiva Blah blah blahs.
It took me 10 climbs or so until they wore in. After like 5 million climbs, they wore out at the rand and sole.
I am very rich, as I stated earlier, and could have just bought like 45 pairs, as I have dumb amounts of disposable cash, but those fit REALLY sexy perfect! So I sent them away to R&R. I never received an email that they even received them (made me bite my man manicures, covered in $ 275.00 of protein collagen strengthener or something)(You dudes should have sent out an email like «Buddy, we got them». 2 seconds it would have took). I was very worried by the 13^th day, and was more worried they have no way to get email. WTH?
On the 14^th day after I sent them, I received them after coming home from a long day of making money, there she was, The USPS box outside my door!
When I’m not making tons of ridiculous amount of dollars trading currencies, I’m cycling and climbing in South Florida. I’ve since put 10 or so climbs on these puppies and I’m very impressed. What impressed me was the craft and workmanship, and the fact that they did in fact feel EXACTELY like they did before. Hence, this review.
PS, at first I was going to see how they resoled my shoes, then copy that the next time. I was actually going to resole them myself next time. Like a commoner. Like an everyday man, not the privilaged exclusive man that I am. Looking at their workmanship, I don’t think I could do that well at the same price if I bought the company! I will be sending my future shoes here. From a VERY important self made millionaire, that says alot about my review.

Rock & Resole is great! My husband and I have been sending our La Sportiva Mythos for resoling for a few years now. After half-​resoling the shoes generally last about as long as the initial rubber, though I usually start to run into other problems after one resoling so I don’t do it more than once (the leather wears out, etc., or the shoes just get too gross). Considering the price differential between resoling (even if they do require new rands) and buying new shoes, this is definitely a no-​brainer.

Two month update, as promised:
As I mentioned in my previous post, my Rock and Resole-​repaired shoes didn’t last me two months after just climbing. I sent my shoes to Evolv (Yosemite Bum) instead and got a new resole job. I swore that if in 2 months, I was down to the rands again I’d remove my negative post about R&R.
Guess what: I’m not taking down this post. The Evolv-​resole has survived not only the 2 month gym climbing litmus test, but have also been used extensively outdoors. No rands in sight.
I’m done with R&R. Hope you guys can get back on track.

Very poor customer service if everything doesn’t good perfectly. Not worth the 40 – 56 bucks, just get a new pair

RnR did a great job with my Sportiva Solutions! They got it done quick (even in peak season like a few weeks ago) and perfectly. In addition, their prices are less than others I’ve tried.
I’ll definitely use them again!

I sent in 2 pairs of mythos and received them back in less than 9 days (although the box looked like someone had played soccer with it). One pair of shoes had been resoled once and so when they took off the rubber, it was clear that the leather was done for. So, they didn’t fix those and added a note explaining the problem (although it was just a post-​it and I didn’t see it at first).
The second pair they repaired to a state that feels good as new. Edges are sharp, the shape is in tact, the rands nicely repaired and the joints nicely blended with the old rubber. Very high quality work compared to the other resole jobs from other vendors that I’d had in the past were someone had deformed the shoe from its original shape.

so you get into rock climbing buy yourself some $ 130 or so rock shoes and climb your little heart out. one day you see some wear on those ohh so expensive slippers! you keep an eye on it and of course it gets worse and worse. i mean your standing on dime edges, scuffing and cussing your way up some ridiculous climb when you could be at home in bed. theres a damn hole starting to get bigger and bigger. you cant climb w your big toe sticking out of the damn thing and you dont want to buy another pair-​they were 130 frickin dollars! plus you need them what the hell else are you going to climb in?
rock and resole is your little shoe savior. they are one of the few authorized resolers in the country. this means they will replace the rubber on your tired old stankass shoe w the same rubber it came w brand new. they can even switch the rubber cuz you have la sportivas and you like 5.10 better. theres also a two day turnaround. drop em off and get em back in two days! hell you can even ship them they’ll resole them and send them back in under a week. they put a new toe cap and new rubber on my shoes for 45 bucks.
the shop is a cool little place tucked into a warehouse in boulder the service is great. it has an old world feel to it kinda like gepetto working on pinocchio. rubber shavings on the floor, aprons, and two cute ass little daschunds running around.
if you dont rock climb then your not up shit creek rock and resole can resole your hiking shoes and boots too. if your dogs is barkin give em a try!