Show us your boots

[Perpetual_beta]

@Perpetual_beta said in Show us your boots:

9060 @ 150 miles or 4 weeks. Have not been wearing them daily due to ice and salt.

Not sure about them yet. Quality is 1-2 notches below GS. But these seem to be better made than recent generations of IRs. Nice leather midsole. Break in fast.

Now at 8 weeks. I Walk a lot ️

[seawolf]

[Mizmazzle]

@seawolf love that the leather is so abraded and almost has a brown teacore effect going.

[CosmoSix5]

Boot photo dump!

[wjw]

My daily drivers when I'm not wearing a work boot

[wjw]

And my other boots that aren't sitting in my work truck.

[matt_rost]

After always thinking that Moc Toes were simply not for me, I've now ventured into the 877 after having good experiences with the 1907...

[northsouthdenimguy]

[CosmoSix5]

[Brian]

Slowly breaking them in, don’t need a horseshoe now to take them off which is a blessing

[CosmoSix5]

I love my Open Road Customs. Like a glove!

[CosmoSix5]

Nick's Robert Black CXL
Nice coat of work evidence on them.

[Denimhead 0]

Selfie misfire
Max Schaaf 4Q x White’s Riding Boot

[Cskarev]

My RW Moc Toes

[Walery Smirnoff]

Fuck, how I want these! They don't sell them here.

[indigostiff]

Vasque Montagnas, 27 years old, bought new back in the day from Red Wing…

[RobeOfTheMagi]

The hardware on my boots is heavily oxidised. Do you have any tipps on how to clean that?

[Walery Smirnoff]

It's patina. On the contrary, it's cool!

[Ross]

@RobeOfTheMagi

Personal advice: don't

Partly because @Walery-Smirnoff is correct, it's part of the patina of your boots

Partly because of the difficulty of doing so without adversely effecting and/or staining the surrounding leather of the boot. Oxidisation is by its very nature an irreversible chemical process.

You're either looking at a polish like Brasso or similar, which will be difficult to apply to small hardware with the vigorousness needed to remove this type of oxidisation without also getting on/in the leather in the local area

You could look at chemical solutions but this is likely to be even worse for the above and may even permanently damage the nearby leather

Or you could look at some of the home grown solutions like baking soda/lemon juice or vinegar/salt but again, i don't think your walking away without at least some staining - but other users may have more experience on these than i do

[NickD]

Ross is spot on here. I'd brush them to remove any loose oxidisation and leave it at that. It's what I do on my RWs.