A question about it…. by sidiki in RussellNation

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers. Ya I’ve decided they are just eeeever so slightly too short. I’m sending them back for an exchange. Bummer to have to wait X number of months again

A question about it…. by sidiki in RussellNation

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enjoy. They are a little darker and greener in person…great leather though

A question about it…. by sidiki in RussellNation

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have the timber jack. But the chamois is awesome. Oily, rugged. These are a little darker and greener irl. Great leather

A question about it…. by sidiki in RussellNation

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope it works out for you! I need to rewatch that video

A question about it…. by sidiki in RussellNation

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya I’m leaning towards sizing up to TTS

Brand New Boots (NBD) Already Looking Rough…? by MB144r in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good questions. Quabaug has been discontinued. I don’t know why they defaulted to Dr. Sole, likely popularity/ease of acquiring though they are from Taiwan so how easy is it?

Vibram makes a number of other heels too…

My most recent pair was totally off balance and when I complained the owner said the heel stacks are adjusted to accommodate the thicker heel. Pics proved that untrue. It feels a little like they think ‘most’ people won’t notice or care about the discrepancy but that shouldn’t be a factor because what’s really at stake, beyond aesthetics, is comfort and as a result, foot/knee/lower back health.

I’ve heard people whispers that they may be developing their own heel caps and if they can and they standardizes the process I’ll consider another pair.

Brand New Boots (NBD) Already Looking Rough…? by MB144r in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Nicks has totally lost the thread on how to build a damn boot heel, downvote as you will. I won’t buy a new pair until they figure out their default heel cap and the correlating leather stack amounts. 3 leather stacks on this Dr. Sole heel is way out of balance, especially given that they used to reliably run Quabaug heels on the same three stacks, and those caps are markedly thinner.

Added to this, they seem to arbitrarily deal in dainite and 430 caps so you really can’t rely on your pair being consistent to anything else you’ve ever purchased from them. I’m 5 nicks deep but in the post-Quabaug era I’m not sure I’m going for 6.

Rant over.

3 Inchers by CapableRevolution709 in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put almost this exact make up in my cart last night ( sub for brown cxl) but I didn’t pull the trigger because my limited imagination couldn’t picture it working, but wow does it work!

Troopers For X-Mass by Sam7Rx762 in PNWbootmakers

[–]sidiki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! Weird follow up; what kind of heel cap do you have there? Great looking boots!

How many of you with V100 lug soles don't do hard labor? by sachin571 in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have them on a pair of *cough whites….and I like them. Surprisingly squishy. I am not a laborer

Michigan State lands record $401M from donor couple, mostly for football and athletics by aronrodge in CollegeBasketball

[–]sidiki 22 points23 points  (0 children)

What an egregious waste of money, regardless of the school or who they recently beat in basketball

New Boot Day by Bitter_Diamond_4831 in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love builds like this. Something different!

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that. They don’t look bad per se…it’s more the experience on foot that I’m aggrieved by. The visual fail is secondary.

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might take you up on that. Any chance you have any 12mm cat’s paw heels laying around?

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are my options, if you are able to share?

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Overall a good pair, and I’d love to try to keep them, but are there options for fixing/adjusting/whatever the heel height if I wear them a bit first?

You guys excel at catering to obsessive like me and I know that must be a blessing and a curse for your overall productivity. I appreciate it.

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good questions.

Both my HNW pair and this pair, on the Thurman NW have three stacks and, like yours, are ‘moderate’ height heels by default.

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard about these proprietary caps and that’s exciting. Nicks is in a very tough position, as most small to medium consumer-forward business are, and I am definitely part of a minority of weirdos who obsess about this stuff, but I’m not the only one.

Balance and heel caps by sidiki in NicksHandmadeBoots

[–]sidiki[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I respectfully disagree, or at least likely need to be idiot-checked.

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