Montie Montana boots are reborn :).

[Montie Montana]

Some may have seen my article in the July 2024 edition of the Cowboy Chronicle on Montie Montana.   Montie's costumes were very flamboyant and distinguished.  One of his trademarks were his boots.  At EOT in 2023, I made a trip down to Paul Bond boots, the original manufacturer of all of Montie's boots.  I asked the folks to try to duplicate his original boot from 1948 that Paul Bond handcrafted himself for Montie.   

 

 

Well, my new boots arrived and are very close.  Montie's original boot shown above are sharkskin and don't hold up for the long term so we chose a similar color, but more durable cowhide.  The other colors are similar, but the hide colors were difficult to get a perfect match.  The design is almost the same.  The amazing news is that one of the very same artisans who made Montie's boots made these very same boots.  Paul Bond did an amazing job!  The stitching and attention to the detail is what Paul Bond is known for and was replicated in these boots.  

 

 

[Stump Water]

34 minutes ago, Montie Montana said:

Montie's original boot shown above are sharkskin and don't hold up for the long term so we chose a similar color, but more durable cowhide. 

 

Good looking boots.

 

Interesting the comment about shark skin.  Mine are the most durable boots I've ever owned.  Even more so than the buffalo hide.  

[Montie Montana]

1 hour ago, Stump Water said:

 

Good looking boots.

 

Interesting the comment about shark skin.  Mine are the most durable boots I've ever owned.  Even more so than the buffalo hide.  

Ya...apparently today, the availability of the sharkskin is different.  Also, they said that the quality they get isn't ideal.  So we opted for the cowhide.

 

[Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L]

Back in the late 1940's and early 1950's my folks lived in an area called Billygoat Acres, which is now present day Compton, CA. Most folks had about an acre or so and many had horses. My folks had horses and belonged to a group that rode in the Los Angeles Thanksgiving and Christmas Day Parades. They used to speak of riding in the parades with Montie Montana.

 

By 1953 they moved to a tract home in Downey CA, where I was born in 1954. I remember visiting my mother's aunt and uncle's home in Billygoat Acres. Thay had a few horses up until the early 1960's. Uncle Harold was an LAPD Detective. We used to go rabbit hunting and he let me shoot his "snub-nosed" 38.

 

Good memories from a lifetime ago.

Edited September 10 by Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L

[Scarlett]

Those are STUNNING!!!! 
Can’t wait to see them in person. 
 

Hugs!

Scarlett

[Griff]

Paul Bond does great boots.  I'm lucky to have two pair, but nothing quite so fancy.  And, Wyatt, back when living in CA was still part of USofA.  Even if it shook a lot!

[John Ray Davis]

Very nice! 

[Zach Taylor,SASS#14359]

Not to get personal, but curious what a pair like that would cost.

[Montie Montana]

1 hour ago, Zach Taylor,SASS#14359 said:

Not to get personal, but curious what a pair like that would cost.

Equal to the cost of a pair of Ruger Vaqueros these days LOL.  ~$2000.  Not sure if the left Ruger is more valuable than the right one...but :).  The good news is that the boots are custom made to my feet...haven't figure out how to make my right handed Ruger work in my left hand though :).

[Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655]

On 9/11/2024 at 7:53 AM, Montie Montana said:

Equal to the cost of a pair of Ruger Vaqueros these days LOL.  ~$2000.  Not sure if the left Ruger is more valuable than the right one...but :).  The good news is that the boots are custom made to my feet...haven't figure out how to make my right handed Ruger work in my left hand though :).

Same way one gets to perform in Carnegie Hall!!!!