After selling my 3 pairs of Wesco Engineers (2 pairs too small and the other pair I rarely wear), my Role Clubs (too small and selling on Ebay now), an old pair of Natural CXL White's Nomads from the first batch of Nomads ever made, I picked up this pair of Devil's Causeway Horsehide Lofgren Engineers. I definitely need to use a ski boot shoehorn to get them on but the fit and quality are great. The texture on these is just insane.

Missed the road champs back in the day but scored a used pair on Ebay.

Took the opportunity to take a family photo as well.

70's San Antonio Era Lucchese's

Fresh from a resole job by Brian.

That's actually a Atlanta Crackers Ebbets jersey. Here's a pic of the boots on my feet.

In Vegas for a conference, visited the Lucchese outlet and had to pick these up. Lucchese Tulip Exotic

I would wait to soak until you are ready to start wearing them. I had denim sitting in storage for 15 years. I would wait to soak for 2 reasons, any creases from storage are going to be mitigated by the initial soak and any dust or dirt that might happen during storage will be soaked away.

My latest boot find. A pair of 70's San Antonio Era Lucchese's

Recieved my 269s this, but only got to wear them for a few hours. Some comparison photos between 269 and 444 and Mr Lou Black HH.

In Vegas for a conference, visited the Lucchese outlet and had to pick these up. Lucchese Tulip Exotic

@FlavourFade The original Road Champs were made by Julian Imrie who also made the RRL Engineer boots before they shifted manufacturers. I would love to get a new pair of road champs, mine are at least a 1/2 size too big.

New Boot Day
Lucchese Navy Elgin

I would wait to soak until you are ready to start wearing them. I had denim sitting in storage for 15 years. I would wait to soak for 2 reasons, any creases from storage are going to be mitigated by the initial soak and any dust or dirt that might happen during storage will be soaked away.

Vintage San Antonio era Lucchese

My latest boot find. A pair of 70's San Antonio Era Lucchese's

70's San Antonio Era Lucchese's

Most cobblers should be able to do this. I do own an instep stretcher and a width stretcher so I do them at home now.

@Daniel-San said in Role Club By Brian the Bootmaker:

Unbelievable but after more than 2 month my boots arrived , but they don’t fit
unfortunately they are too tight at the instep area.

If they fit everywhere besides the tightness in the instep. You could easily get that stretched. I picked up a second hand pair off ebay. They were sold as 11.5 and the box was marked 11.5 but they fit more like an 10.5 both in length and width. I did have Brian resole them and when I got them back I stretched them a bit width wise and they are much more comfortable now.