Offical TRICKERS shoes and boots thread

[Mallaig]

After..

decided on double JR leather sole, toe plates and topy covers...

Arrive back tomorrow after insanely fast turnaround from The Shoe Healer team.
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Crafty, are the soles being done by Shoe Healer ? And, if I may ask, how much does a sole change cost ? I asked Trickers about replacing a dainite sole with commando and they quoted me GBP 150.

 

[Reiver]

After..

decided on double JR leather sole, toe plates and topy covers...

Arrive back tomorrow after insanely fast turnaround from The Shoe Healer team.
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amazing work there. Really suits the boots.

 

[FondDeJante]

After..

decided on double JR leather sole, toe plates and topy covers...

Arrive back tomorrow after insanely fast turnaround from The Shoe Healer team.
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These are my favourite of the two but both of the Crafties are considerably improved by the sole swap ?

 

[princealbert]

Crafty, are the soles being done by Shoe Healer ? And, if I may ask, how much does a sole change cost ? I asked Trickers about replacing a dainite sole with commando and they quoted me GBP 150.

shoe healer have done some excellent work for me and changed the soles on several pairs of shoes. Can’t remember the exact cost but it was less than £150. More like £100 / £110 I think. Crafty will have up to date info.I honestly think their work is as good as you would get from the factory and quicker turnaround.

 

[Crafty Cumbrian]

Arrived home..

 

[Crafty Cumbrian]

It’s £85 for sole swap and I added a topy and toe plates too.

 

[Crafty Cumbrian]

This colour was meant for
This sole! ?

 

[Crafty Cumbrian]

 

[Encore]

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Nice one, I think it looks better than before

 

[Mallaig]

It’s £85 for sole swap and I added a topy and toe plates too.
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Wow. Thank you !

 

[Pedlar]

This colour was meant for
This sole! ?
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Crafty, these re-soles look wonderful.

 

[Pedlar]

Regarding "no through" or "Thru" as they say....this is from 2 years ago.

Thanks for digging this out, @rob80bboots. I think I saw this last year when I began to be bothered about it but since then I’d lost track of what I’d read and was no longer sure if beefing up the through was possible. I’m adding my Stows to my re-soling list ... but behind pairs where actual wear necessitates some work.

Here’s a small “thru-less” anecdote: I had about nine months or so of wear on my hatch grain Stows when a picture I posted here prompted me to look at the lacing and decide that perhaps I was wearing them too loosely. So I tightened them up – not with any huge tugs, but aiming for a more hiking boot-like snugness.

But an evidently too-vigorous pull produced what felt like a sudden flexing in the Dainite sole of one boot, then a discomfort in the side of my foot just ahead of my heel.

These had been very comfortable boots but now were less so, especially when I wore them for more than a few hours. I was not very happy about this.

It took another bunch of wears before I figured out what was going on – the heel counter, which wraps around and fairly far up the side, apparently had bent inward. I was able to bend it back out and matters seem to resolve — enough so that the Stows were the only footwear I took on a several day trip just before the pandemic descended. Wearing them for three days in a row was a great footwear experience; they are truly excellent boots.

I just don’t tighten them so much now. And I hope to someday experience them with a thicker sole.

Comparison with a double leather sole Bourton:

 

[Pedlar]

And one more post.... a NIB eBay find arrived this afternoon — if they are from someone on this list, thank you.

Initial review: Fantastic

 

[Crafty Cumbrian]

Crafty, these re-soles look wonderful.

Thanks fella. They look brilliant, really pleased with them.

 

[CrashBurner]

Arrived home..

It’s £85 for sole swap and I added a topy and toe plates too.
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This colour was meant for
This sole! ?
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Great work Captain. Were these the white Christy-soled boots? This leather sole thing is just a phase right? You're still on team Ridgeway??