Wesco - Production and sneak peeks

[Giles]

Boss
9"
Boss toe
#700 Vibram
Black outsole stitching
Standard just about everything else

[Jordan23]

Stunning! What leather G.?

Enjoy ya addiction!

[superfuzz]

Really like the 1930s Boss. Just needs a soft toe, IH brass buckles and a longer instep strap and it would be just about perfect IMO.

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[Giles]

Anything we do in production will get IH brass or nickel plated buckle & stamped leather insoles

[Giles]

@Jordan23:

Stunning! What leather G.?

Basic black.  Our thinking on this one is that we would keep it as basic as possible…..

[Jordan23]

Cool! Brown Midsoles would be dope too!

Enjoy ya addiction!

[Max Power]

The black Boss is awesome.

[Giles]

Yes, in production it will have natural midsoles…

[Jordan23]

That's ma man! Great buildup.

Enjoy ya addiction!

[JCMx800]

@Giles:

Yes, in production it will have natural midsoles…

Great!!! Will check em out @ Vater & Sohn

[501xx4ever]

Is there a rough guide price for the 30's Boss and the "Normal" Boss?

[Giles]

Working on that this week…...

[stingray1381]

@Giles:

Morrison
10"
Rough out burlap and redwood
Black lining
#705 Vibram
Standard heel height
Credit card holder

I dig these, but in a different leather.

[Giles]

That's good, because you'd have a hard time prising them from @SaschaVS 's mitts…...

[Giles]

OK.  One of the reasons I love this job is that nothing goes quite to plan, so the art of getting where you want to end up is often a series of tweaks.

I love the Burlap leather that Wesco does, the feel of the smooth out is almost sensual, so I had this "brilliant" idea. Lets take the same hides, subject it to the same tanning process but make it in Olive Drab.

So Chris at Wesco jumped on the idea.  And we made one sample hide.

Bugger, we got the recipe wrong.  Personally, I hope these are my size, because I will wear the crap out of them in the certain knowledge that the green will mute with the appropriate abuse.

For the production run, we'll get the green a lot more drab…

(annnnnd please, no Robin feckin Hood jokes)

[4c]

Dammit…
(was actually just looking up Robin Hood when you added that last part)

[Qinhan]

@Giles:

(annnnnd please, no Robin feckin Hood jokes)

What about jokes about River Dance or Leprachauns?

[Giles]

Depends upon whether you want us to "lose" any future orders…..

[Graeme]

When I saw the Robin Hood comment, I thought that Giles had convinced Wesco to get medieval…

Still, I can't resist posting this.

[superfuzz]

I'm psyched that you're working on some different leathers with Wesco, G. One of my only grips about them was the small number of leather options.

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