Custom Renaissance Boots » Aragorn boots http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com Made to order footwear for Renaissance Faires, SCA, fantasy and science fiction fans Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Finished Strider boots http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/02/finished-strider-boots/ http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/2010/02/finished-strider-boots/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:58:43 +0000 admin http://www.customrenaissanceboots.com/?p=156 It took me a whole day to get up the courage to mess them up. The experiments on the left overs looked ok but not great. I mixed up the gunk and started caking it on, then had to wait over night to see what I had. When I knock off the clumps and rubbed [...]]]> It took me a whole day to get up the courage to mess them up. The experiments on the left overs looked ok but not great. I mixed up the gunk and started caking it on, then had to wait over night to see what I had. When I knock off the clumps and rubbed a cloth and brush over it to give it a more worn look, it wasn’t doing it. Not the right “dirty”. California dirt isn’t really good dirt – it too beige. Next step was potting soil and compost. That gave me good black dirt, the kind that one would find in a forest. It stuck to everything, laces, thread and leather. Knocked off the clumps and left a smeary mess in the same kind of places that the borrowed barn boots had. Not bad. They’ll still need some serious walking around to get the slouchy broken in look. That’s for the new owner.

Aged Strider Boots

Aged Strider Boots

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Toe detail on Strider boot

Inside of Strider Boot

Inside of Strider Boot

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