By UglyJoe • April 6, 2024"This leather is extremely resilient. It is much like Chromexcel in that it scratches and dents easily, but these brush out almost entirely. I have multiple times had dogs jump on them and claw them, rolled over them with my office chair, stabbed them accidentally with random metal pieces in my garage, or scraped them on something leaving what I was sure would be a permanent and ugly scar. Massaging the leather and brushing essentially removed all traces of these incidents—to the point that I was starting to worry that they would show the aging I was looking for over the course of the Thunderdome. However, the leather did patina and darken nicely. It also acquired that beautiful sheen that only the highest quality leather seems to be able to achieve.
The leather is extremely deep in color and the shades of color give an extremely textured look, particularly in soft natural light. Under different lighting conditions the color appears to change significantly, from a reddish brown in some light to a nearly bright red in sunny conditions.
I conditioned the boots twice over the course of the Dome with Smith’s leather balm. The leather is stuffed and doesn’t need a huge amount of conditioning, though I would have conditioned more if they had been exposed to more serious winter weather...."Read the full review
