2018 Edition - Iron Heart WAYWT

hairydangler

@daltmeyer:

Wesco Custom Boss

Looking good! Those boots look especially tasty. Any pics and details appreciated.

Thanks neph!

They were someone elses custom order that ended up on the surplus page.

Specs:
STYLE VEG7709700 (Size: 11E) [B-1459]
+Color: Vegetable Tanned
+9" Height
+700 Sole

DESCRIPTION:
custom style with Nordic Brass roller buckles, Vintage Boss upper stitching pattern

They were so obnoxious looking and all veg tanned I couldnt stand it. I immediately put two coats of Wesco bee oil followed by 2 coats of the bee seal plus.

They looked much better right away, turning a nice honey color. As the months have passed they are turning into a wonderful caramel color that I love.

Heres the only pic I have of them before I treated them. Followed by a couple taken a few weeks after treatment:

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Giles

OG IH-526J
IHT
GA-S-SNP
GOOD ART HLYWD Ball Chain 3
GA-S-POJ
IHT
IH-814
The Bootery/Wesco - 10" Roughout Burlap Boss

Steve

IHSH-176
IH-666S-14

AdamJ

IHTL-1301
IH-777-UHR
Wesco Foot Patrol

neph93

@daltmeyer they are beauties. Not too different from the build I was considering last summer. I ended up going for burlap instead. Totally support the leather treatment btw, it's what I would have done too.

hairydangler

When I bought these boots I was going through a little faze where I thought I wanted veg tanned natural colored leather on all my future leather products and let them age and evo and become the color they want.

Then I got these and quickly changed my thought process once seen in person! Just too much for me. Really unfortunate looking. Haha. But they are marvelous the way they turned out. I really love them and they get compliments. @neph93

Sorry for the sidetrack everyone. Beautiful, stylish people in this thread!

Seul

No boots cause I'm running around like a blue arsed fly doing groceries, not working.

215 // 816 // 576

Matty123

What’s a blue assed fly? Serious question.

neph93

Something than runs about like a beer loving Belgian. (Semi-serious answer… [emoji23]).

Alex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bottle_fly

Matty123

@Alex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bottle_fly

@neph93:

Something than runs about like a beer loving Belgian. (Semi-serious answer… [emoji23]).

Thank you guys. All this time I thought the color of floes were just random. Pretty stupid if
Me in retrospect

Seul

It's a saying… Just means you're busy... Blue arsed fly => can't sit down => running around...

That's how I interpreted it... Lifted it from a The 4 Skins lyric...

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/run+around+like+a+blue-arsed+fly

Alex

I think the saying is based on the blue bottle fly that is know to buzz around erratically not really seeming to get much done

Seul

Aaah I see… That makes (much more) sense...

EJS

Bottle & Glass - Arse

Hence Blue Bottle becomes Blue Arsed… cockney slang which sadly I'm well versed in..

Seul

I only know "plastic gangster" and "to have a butcher's"…

Giles

http://happy2movelondon.co.uk/complete-dictionary-of-cockney-rhyming-slang/

You Berkeley Hunt

Matty123

@Giles:

http://happy2movelondon.co.uk/complete-dictionary-of-cockney-rhyming-slang/

You Berkeley Hunt

Oh Fuck yes. I’m obsessed. My wife’s gonna hate me.

Giles

You mean your Trouble and Strife

Stuart.T

@Matty123:

@Giles:

http://happy2movelondon.co.uk/complete-dictionary-of-cockney-rhyming-slang/

You Berkeley Hunt

Oh Fuck yes. I’m obsessed. My wife’s gonna hate me.

@Matty123 the one thing faster than a blue arsed fly is a blue arsed fly that's chasing shit off a shovel

Cockney rhyming slang was used bet costermongers (street traders) all over London, including Sarf London as a way of speaking to each other without being understood. Just as much to set prices for punter's as avoid the police feeling their collars

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