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Just funnin' ya Mark.
On my motorcycle.....running the back roads........just some beat-up jeans and bullhides.......I'm painfully basic and a fashion disgrace.

Scooter

Glock 22, .40 cal S & W. Hi-Capacity.

Looks like two good people I would like to have a beer with someday. Spider has been a great asset at Paul Bonds. He is wearing a nice pair of boots.

Scooter - you should have tucked your pants in too. What are you wearing?

CBBN

and by the way..........I'm a little over six feet tall........Spider scrapes the clouds, but doesn't crowd the horizon.

Visiting with Spider (manager) at Paul Bond Boots

Brian,

I have a picture that I will send you and Mark. But, I was shooting with 5 megapixels and that doesn't do well on this site. I'd been out on the desert on my motorcycle and was hopping the border now and then.

Scooter

Scooter

I am going to start drinking whatever Paul Bond is drinking.

I saw him at the Round-Up last year, and your description of him is 100% on the mark. I wish him (an all boot makers) years of good health. We need them.

I have never been very outspoken about any of the competition's boots here or on the internet and I won't be now. Personally though I have my opinions about some of the boots out there. For these boots though, I don't see what the ruckus is. If I were making a boot to celebrate a lot of years I would make up some fancy inlay and it would really not be made for wearing either. Of course I doubt I could get the $ 15000.00 for it either! If I could I would be working on them right now...Wow~! Just wait a few years though and you can pick up a pair of these on Ebay for a bargain. Personally though I don't like the toe or heel and I would want mine with something more like a cowboy boot!...TR

hhmmmmmm....12 grand for those boots? A guy gets to be a walking advertisement for Lucchese after paying a really stiff price to do it! Great scam...
Mention was made of a hand tooled leather boot box. I hope the box is more impressive than the boots...

I can't wait to buy a pair for $12,500 so some guy next to me in 1883's will say, 'I wear Lucchese's too'.

Lucchese did a much better job with their 100th year aniversary boots. They were hornback lizard and a Lucchese logo. Simple, not gawdy and priced so many more people could purchase one. I think they made a 1000 of those.

Of coarse, Lucchese was different 25 years ago.

Somebody in El Paso has lost sight of the mission . . . . Lucchese makes some nice off the shelf boots, and I am certain these boots will be well made, but you couldn't pay me $12,500 to wear a pair of those boots. And sure, you could point out that those boots weren't made for me, but you know what, that is exactly the problem with these boots, they weren't made for me --or anybody else who wears cowboy boots, and frankly, they look silly.

While it is a good idea to do an anniversary, limited edition boot, these boots are not likely to boost company name recognition, or further sales if that matters . . . .

Lucchese should design a boot that their customers might actually want to wear.

Paul Bond and his crew recently came up with four limited edition anniversary designs to commemorate Mr. Bond's many years in the boot business. The designs are beautiful, pleasing to look at, and more affordable; and Mr. Bond had the good taste not to plaster his name in script across them.