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What a beautiful shoes!

Stain / dark spot on the vamp of the right boot? One may or may not expect better clicking at the 2000$ price point.

I love your content, really detailed and useful info. Thanks

they got yall paying a work boot's price for a tiny wood stick 😂😂😂

Very good comparison. I believe Horween sets the standard for what genuine shell cordovan leather is, while the other two are high-quality horse butt leathers, but it’s hard to consider them as true shell cordovan.

All taneries produce thick and thin hides

There was a leather bomber jacket company near Seattle that used Shinki Hikaku shell cordovan. They swore by it.

I also like Shinki Hikaku for their color selection

How did Brian build the boot to your size? Did you travel to him or send him a sizing sketch?

What is the boot you show in the beginning with the "commando" sole? Its beautiful.

So hard to decide to go slightly smaller or slightly bigger. The smaller one made from björn borg is kind of hanging out on the sides but the slightly bigger one is a bit too long and could stretch a bit as well... i dont know... the bigger one is 43 and smaller is 42 and the 43 looks better in size to my body. SO HARD!

7:50 appreciating the beatific experience of the finest footwear!!! Thank you for this

Just bought shoe trees for all of my shoes 🙏🏻 gotta keep them looking good

Hey man 👋🏻 not to get off topic, but what’re your thoughts on Thursday boots? Are they worth buying?

Can you please elaborate on a comment you replied to me once, but I never followed up to enquirer about? It was about Weatherproof leather, I own a pair of Hamilton Weatherproof Oxford Dress Boot, you said it’s not optimal kind of leather. What is weatherproof leather? And what makes it inferior? I’m just curious and want to be aware for personal knowledge and future purchasing advice, Thank you.

Its giving gnome........maybe as a low top? Not a good look as is

U better believe my as wen you here me say I ain’t buying no 1,000 dollar shoe unless I’m wealthy man

$600 Indy’s are rip offs, comfortable or not, but if that’s how ppl wanna spend their money please do so.

Have 3 pairs of Indy’s and they are my most comfortable boots…! For that comfort they’re worth the money for me….! Have GS’s, Wolverine’s, Red Wing’s and others but my Alden’s are my number one boots….! ❤️💯👍

Do they make one for tennis called T- tree just asking 😮

thanks for saying absolutely nothing about the socks

I’ve got a pair of these, and am pretty happy except one thing; because of the stitches on the tongue, removing and installing the laces was super tricky, and I indeed damaged the tips of the laces. Do you happen to know how not to damage the lace tips?

Diid the boots from Carmina really show up new, looking like that?

Could you please make a video about cracking on shell cordovan? Nobody on UA-cam/Facebook wants to elaborate what happens to a pair that has a crack and what will happen to the crack overtime w/ conditioning vs no conditioning.

Gorgeous

My best pre-owned shoes are probably the 6 pairs of vintage dress shoes in various leathers that I've thrifted by Dack's, Alden, Hartt, and Florsheim. But my favourite one is the Fiorentini + Baker calfskin engineer boots that I grabbed for under $100 Canadian and looked brand new with a clean and polish

But what were they?

Just LOVE THESE BOOTS!!!!

nice casual boots would have been much better in gibson.

Great video/info. Minor critique - your background music either needs to be a bit louder or off - it's right at that volume where I keep thinking "is there music playing somewhere?"

I really appreciate you taking the time to make a video about this. Just as a piece of constructive criticism, saying ‘This right here…" and then not pointing at anything is really confusing. You did a couple of similar things through the video and it got quite confusing!

Great Job. I was at the Stitchdown Bootcamp 2024 and Brian the Bootmaker was there. Since I have a slightly arthritic knee and can't wear heavy boots. I brought a scale with me to weight the boots. Surprisingly, the role club size 8 1/2 wasn't that heavy, it weighed 1lb 13oz with a leather sole. That is about what a Grant Stone diesel boot weighs. In my size (9 1/2 Bannock), it would come in under 2 pounds for each boot...very wearable.

For what it's worth (which is nothing) I personally like Blake stitching so that the shoe is more stylish looking. Mainly for formal events and if you're going out and want to look your best. Bruno Magli comes to mind. Fine Italian construction, comfortable, sleek and stylish. I also like the Goodyear stitch for durability. Its the workhorse. The Norwegian, to me, falls into the similar category as the Goodyear but with a very obvious unique look. It may grow on me.

These are dope I would like to see them make a persimmon/kakishibu dye version of these

Is this only useful for cordovan leather? Would it help remove creases from Horween chromexcel?

Followup. One sole you did not mention was the 430 mini lug, which is a slimmer more refined profile then a full lug.

Those are beautiful! I love vintage Florsheims as well.

I get that the video is about men’s wear, but what do you do to stop razor burns? I’ve used single blades, expensive razors, electric razors, etc.. still get bumps. I believe coarse hair may differ from thin fine hair but any tips, this is weird but nice head, also ordering online makes it hard to get the right sizes sometimes

How should the boots fit at the top (where they are on the leg)? Should there be space between the boot opening and the leg or should it wrap?

Update?

I didn't notice that the underdog boots had a back stay shaped like a coke bottle...that is pretty cool. I am seriously thinking of getting a engineer boot. Brian really helped to get me interested in boots and customizing them. He does such beautiful work...this guy is a artist.

One of the last few who will make a true bespoke tall boot that isn't $20k

Hey man, thank you so much for the feature! Very humbled by the time and effort you put into this 🙏🙏🙏

They look great! Remarkably similar to my John Lobb Forge boots.

Stay tuned for a behind the scenes tour of Boardroom Socks 100% made in America factory tour! Here’s the full factory tour! ua-cam.com/video/WutgEexDydc/v-deo.html

The best two things in you collection collecting dust ‘up top’ Crown Northampton. Sad day. I’d wear those over all the rest every day.

Beautiful shoes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Hi , do you think TLB are better than Carmina ,thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Why would they need to? They just push computer program buttons

So so so damn sick! Inspirational to say the least