Archive for August 2010
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Lucchese Boot Company Tour – Day 5
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Lucchese Toes and Heels
Trey and I walked through the different types of styles of toes and heel choices that you can get on your Lucchese Boots. There are 18 styles of toes – from the Classic toe, to the 1 toe, to the new W toe – and Trey explained the differences in both the [...]
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Lucchese Boot Company Tour – Day 4
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History of the Lucchese Boot Company
Trey Gilmore and I took a look at some of the history of the Lucchese Boot Company. Trey walked me through the archives of the fit books and we looked at a lot of the notable people who have worn Lucchese boots throughout the years.
Wonder if John Wayne was wearing [...]
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Lucchese Boot Company Tour – Day 3
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Inside the Lucchese Factory
Today I took an in-depth tour of the Lucchese factory where they hand-make every pair of Lucchese Boots. We started out in stitching and I saw how Lucchese can make any pattern on your boots. Then we followed the whole process through lasting, to hammering in the lemonwood pegs, to staining the [...]
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Lucchese Boot Company Tour – Day 2
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Lucchese Boots Skins
Today I got a chance to talk with a gentleman named Frank who manages the Skins department for Lucchese. We got to see how they cut each Lucchese style with these giant cookie cutters. We saw everything from American Alligator, to Full-Quill Ostrich. He showed me the difference between American Alligator, Crocodile and [...]
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Lucchese Boot Company Tour – Day 1
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The Lucchese Showroom
Well I’ve made it to El Paso and found my way to Lucchese Boot HQ. Leaving the airport and it’s 108 degrees (But as they say around here, “it’s a dry 108”.)
Our first stop of the day was the Lucchese Showroom. This place has almost 1000 pairs of Lucchese Classics, Diva, Lucchese Cowboys [...]
Hey there. It’s Jeff from Grapevinehill.com here and I’ll be guest blogging for a little while. I’m very excited as I’m getting ready to head down to the Lucchese Boot Company world headquarters in El Paso.
We’re going to head down there to get a ton of firsthand video footage of some of the newest styles [...]
