For year shoe shiners could be found on the street corners or just outside a gentlemen's room - polish and cloth ready to add a nice shine to a dirty wing tip. But the trade has slowed over the years.

He's been shining shoes six days a week for 33 years, almost from the moment he first stepped foot in San Francisco with his wife and four kids. His dad was a shoe-shine man, too. So was his uncle.

What better test for some great shoe shine products and a shoeshine expert than our fashion ... from wood hangers in a range of sizes and applications to two-foot-long, English-made real ox shoe ...