BRASS Tokyo

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Lovely, actually, fantastic boots - but can you say more about the leather? I don't get the 'overdye' bit.

Double O, I know what you are saying about seeing a raw cut area if it was dyed afterwords, I was wondering if they chose parts of the leather side for vamp, shaft, etc.. then dyed accrodingly. It's just that these boots are so thoughtfully made it doesn't seem like a much darker toe would just happen. Just an observation. Epic boots, wear them in good health and loking forward to their evolution. 

hollows wrote: Great to finally see a pair of these up close, they're better than I expected.  Congrats 00.

If by "up close", you mean pics on the Internet, then I too am glad to see these "up close."

Duke- When dying the leather Horween will pour a thick dye "over" the surface of the side of leather then spread it out with a spatula so it only dyes the surface leaving the core au naturale. BRASS will buy the side of leather and cut out the pattern accordingly. If you see the second sample pair of engineers in the op they are black all the way through therefor the leather will have been completely submerged in dye, dying the leather all the way through (not over-dyed). I doubt that shoemakers have anything to do with the dying process...Hollows is your man to speak too here, he knows more about this than i do.

Smoothsailor- Pg7 of the blog has all the info you require explaining the customisable options... There is at least 15 variations for the heel/sole combo that will work on either the WR or CN Last lace ups or engineer.

Ben- I think Ray will hold the honorary title of king of black engineer boots for some years yet.
Sadly no HH but still a fine repertoire including 10 variations of Horween Latigo, 2 CXL, Bull Hide ect ect.

Edited by Double 0 Soul - 28 Jun 2014 at 1:33am

jonathan have you been to fukurokuju? where in kobe is this place?how much does he charge?