aye, listen well me hearty, for a tale of cobblers and their craft, with a wave aside to the notion they but mend shoes. now, in a pre-explanatory note, let's ponder their suggestion of materials, but here's where ye must be cunning: ask the cobbler to reset to the beginning of their apprenticeship and share the unconfessed secrets of the trade, those they'd rather keep buried deep in the hull, arr, to trick the old salts into spilling what ought not be revealed.