The guy tried to give me the highest price he could before he realized we'd already spoken on the…read morephone. He then went down on the price. I'll get my boots back this weekend. Hopefully he still does a good job.

I brought in a pair of Thursday Captains and needed new soles and heels. The service took about a…read moreweek and after I took them home and had a little bit of time to look at the repair I started to notice a few things I didn't like. First off the cobbler didn't remove the old stitching and put the new stitching on top of the old one he didn't reuse the existing holes and skipped a whole bunch. the length of each stitch was about 3 quarters of an inch long for each stitch. He didn't counter sink the stitches on the bottom so I wore though them in a day on some areas. For some reason he nailed the heel through the top instead of the botto. In order to do that he tore the inside footbed away from the bottom of the boot and nailed the nails through and then just placed the piece he tore away back down. Within a week I started to feel the nails and the remaining parts of the footbed started to wear through where the nails were constantly rubbing. And then he painted the sides of the new sole and heel to match the color of my boots and that also started to peel and chip away within a few days. I would never have this cobbler do any work on any of my boots again. If you value your footwear and spend a lot of money on them you do not want to have him work on your boots. Side note before he did the repair he commented on how nice the boots were and that he would do really good work on them cuss he could tell they were quality boots so if thats his good work I'd hate to see his usual work. I have other boots and shoes like Iron Rangers, 1000 mile, Park Avenues and more expensive Thursday's but I wanted to see his work on my least expensive pair first before bringing him others and in that aspect I'm happy I did.