Purchased from Willie's Handmade BootsTotal cost: 498 USD
Lead time: 4 months
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There were some communication issues on both sides unfortunately. I had some specific details that I wanted that weren’t followed through on and overall it wasn’t the best experience. It was easy enough to get in touch with him and he was super friendly and on board to do the pair, but he didn’t ask for many details, and the details I asked for seemed to get overlooked. I had wanted a 6 or 7 inch version, black stitching on the upper and welt, and raw cord soles. But they showed up full height, with brown upper stitching, white welt stitching, and jade supergrip soles. I let him know that I could do the resoling since I had some raw cord soles (this is why those marks around the base of the upper are there. Inexperienced cobbling on my part) and it would be significantly cheaper for him to send me the right size heels rather than ship the whole thing to the Philippines and back. He also offered to refund me $50, but I never received that.
Shipping was also a very surprising $95usd, which hadn’t been mentioned before, and was a bit of a bummer.
He got other things right like the edge finish and hardware, and while I didn’t totally love the undertones of the black tongue he did remember that I had said if there wasn’t enough material in the side I sent that he could use a black leather for the tongue.
There are some minor things in terms of some puckering at the toe, but it’s a relatively inexpensive custom boot with a flat welt and a fair thick stiff veg tan leather. I’m not going to whine too much.
The pattern is beautiful and for the most part they’re very nice boots, and I think with more clear communication it would totally be worth working with Willie.