Complete Red Wing Iron Ranger Recraft | Whiskey Inspired, Prohibition Themed Resole

Total recraft from start to finish of a pair of Red Wing Iron Ranger boots. What do you get when you combine a pair of worn out Red Wing Iron Rangers with a super rare bottle of Detrick straight rye whiskey?An epic, prohibition themed leather recraft that will leave you stunned. Follow Cobbler Tobias of Wyatt and Dad Cobbler Company as he reimagines what the Red Wing Iron Ranger can look like, while capturing the essence of a bottle of Detrick Rye Whiskey in the process.
Production:
Filmed, Produced and Edited by Nicholas Wyatt of Grunt Runner Films
Website: gruntrunnerfilms.com
Insta: @gruntrunnerfilms
Cobbler Work:
Recrafted by Cobbler Tobias of Wyatt and Dad Cobbler Company
Logo Burn work by Dye by Angel
Website: wyattanddad.com
Insta: @procobblers @cobblertobias @dye_by_angel
Facebook: @procobblers
Music licensed from Soundstripe
Special Thanks to:
The Trophy Room
Belle of Dayton Distillery

[@nicksboots]

Love the way you incorporated the bottle design into the boot. You guys do great work!

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks!

[@johncoleman7308]

Pretty awesome compliment coming from Nick’s! That should say something about quality! 💪👍🏼

[@ibrahindiaz6872]

Agree, a compliment from such reputable boot maker says a lot. Congrats, you guys just got a new subscriber

[@brgulker]

Production quality and workmanship are incredible!

[@JordanSmith-fg6if]

The amount of effort put into the video quality here is mind boggling for a cobbler channel. The gold standard. Thank you, sincerely.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! We are glad you noticed that our videos aren’t just a camera on a tripod.

[@ibrahindiaz6872]

That was very creative, congrats

[@zachdealtv]

Hell yeah! Toby is a savage.

[@TheNameoftheWorld]

Educational and entertaining. Good to know that there are skilled cobblers in my area. I know where I am going to take my Iron Rangers for a resole.

[@Thunderbird-2]

I love what you're doing here! I just found your channel a few days ago. The quality of work you guys put into the boots, video editing, and staging is awesome. Too many channels end up playing to the camera and lose their authenticity. I think you guys are doing it right!

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks!

[@Thunk00]

Great creativity.

[@santoparfano1910]

As always...a true masterpiece. I'm going to send you guys a pair of NOS caterpillar GYW monkey boots from the 1990s to get completely recruited. I'm just watching your videos for ideas.

[@AL-pb1lb]

Incredible work!! Never thought to have a leather sole put on the rangers. That really dressed this man’s man boot.

[@MattBell73]

Not a fan of the lace colour match, but other than that these are possibly the best looking red wings I've ever seen. You're cobbling is pure genius my friend.

[@bobbyrodriguez3742]

Fantastic work sir. This has truly peaked my interest to resole my Iron Rangers. Keep up the great work.

[@rockon21ful]

Absolutely stunning work on an ole pair of Iron Rangers 😎👍🥃🇺🇸⚒

[@Mikey_556]

Awesome video just picked some IR’s up pre owned and will likely send them your way for the corded half sole recraft treatment sooner than later. 🍻

[@zac0912]

How y'all only have 12.5k subscribers is beyond me ❤

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks!

[@ibrahindiaz6872]

Times have changed… I’m only 39 yrs old, but Im old enough to say every single men in the US should joint your channel, we definitely need more bravery( masculinity) around. Awesome work congrats

[@michealvick4042]

Great production value

[@dra960]

One hell of a classy pair of Red Wings! It's nice seeing a pair so custom. My grandpa bought me a pair of Red Wings yrs ago. I didn't understand what I had back then. Just a comfortable pair of boots. Man I wish I kept them! Smdh.

[@spencerandersonii6553]

Epic!

[@jamesburbage7564]

Remarkable that you do art with shoes. Can’t wait to get a pair and send them with free creative expression. Keep up the great work. It really is one on the best KZbin channel’s.

[@peterhallock9486]

Best video, story, recreating human interest to me. Pure entertainment, thanks a heap!! 👍

[@saxman7131]

I’m currently looking for my first pair of Iron Rangers. I like the oxblood color. I wear 14D I enjoy the channel.

[@j.r.carroll8413]

Nice entertaining video.

[@SugarMapleForge]

Top notch boot maker, top notch filmmaker! A pair of these would look amazing in my collection!

[@JCorLC]

Love that beat at the end, and the work.

[@DMD96]

Dude…nice. I just purchased my first pair.

[@telemarktumalo6978]

Excellent video and gorgeous rebuild/recraft. The essence of quality and a true heirloom quality boot!

[@oldskull70]

Man ! You’ve nailed that mission !! It was a great pleasure to watch the video and the results ! Cheers from Austria !

[@rgrignon]

beautiful! want.

[@ghostrider8307]

Beautiful work. The sole oozes so much character. Keep it up 👍🏼

[@Kaleema007]

Man… GREAT JOB ON THIS RECONSTRUCTION🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@sadaratkhan5668]

Great job man. Video/ production quality excellent, video production in semi dark room gave excellent taste.

[@DS-jh1bp]

What a great video! Love every detail of the presentation, process and time piece tribute. So well done across the board. Outstanding craftsmanship on all accounts, thanks!

[@justinthompson782]

Love the content and craftsmanship! Just discovered your channel with this video. Can't wait to see more from your company!

[@articjackal]

Nice work. I also like that Nicks Boots watch these videos too. It shows they pay attention to the market and what people are interested in.

[@par3caddy]

Wow! Those JR soles came out gr8. Nice work 👏

[@reggienance]

Great Job! i Iiked all of the improvements.

[@frankgeorge9387]

This video is a *VIBE*

[@SNELLERIZED]

You guys are THE BEST!!!

[@trageopar]

Great video! Fun to watch. Superb job on the boots as well! Beautiful.

[@mattsmoot7530]

Entertaining and inspiring my favorite so far!

[@jacebryan2967]

Amazing work! I will definitely be sending you my boots and a bottle of whiskey!

[@LKS-1976]

Impeccable work!

[@pbear7814]

Very entertaining (and educational to boot)!

[@rinaldyfaustino643]

Now it makes you to not use the boot and display it upside down. Awesome awesome work! Both Craftmanship and Cinematography damn even the location and clothing is on point! New fave boot channel.

[@andrew5220]

Workmanship superb, video production first class 👍

[@donlee7028]

Wonderful presentation by a true artisan who is also a craftsman.

[@jeffreygoss8109]

I’m sure after a bottle of whiskey I would have ended up with the jerk needle lodged in a finger. Sole was a nice touch 👍

[@adammorrison4880]

Tobias, I'd love to see what you might do with my Ferragamo loafers.

[@american_psycho1147]

I've made up my mind that I will be sending all my boots and shoes to these guys when they're in need of a resole. The fact that you're NC based makes it even better as I have roots there. At this point though I just need to wait for the soles to wear out first

[@vicentegregorio6476]

Outstanding work!!!

[@williammarshall468]

Beautiful work! I would not want to wear them lol.

[@Roebuck325]

Love the turn out

[@TheAnvil1971]

Brilliant work on this boots, it was a joy to watch! I love my stock Iron Rangers and look forward to level it up someday. Greetings from Germany!

[@nismo_zrz3321]

Stunning work, amazing production and on one of my favorite boots! Subbed and can’t wait to see more🙌🏼

[@jonboy8181]

That’s a period correct aluminum soda can! 😉 nice job on the shoes!

[@StolenAlias]

Absolute art

[@bryananderson9956]

Amazing work !!!

[@mikea4150]

Wow ,very nice !

[@bradsweeney1489]

Love the look of the leather sole on the Ranger. Something I'd like done

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! We are here whenever you are ready.

[@keenobservations3050]

Your channel truly deserves more subs. I added you just now, never saw your channel before today. Great format

[@JMP-ETTAN]

Beautiful 🙏

[@Cygnus56]

Bravo!

[@kit2770]

With gorgeous soles like that, how could you bring yourself to walk outdoors in your boots ever again? I'd wanna roll a carpet out in front of me everywhere I went just to preserve that great work.

[@billynunns]

Heck yeah!

[@warden516]

They are on point with any 👞 shoe

[@mikeczyz]

i, too, am drinking whiskey! great vid!

[@MichaelDeming]

Very entertaining video and excellent work on the boots. My Iron Rangers are due for soles now.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! We are ready when you are.

[@scottdavenport1833]

I never thought that I would apply this word to Iron Rangers, but those boots are elegant.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Those definitely are not two words you would think to be in the same sentence. 😂

[@scottdavenport1833]

I think that it's the Triumph toe plates. 😀

[@davidv.l.hriatzela6295]

U are awesome

[@OliverReilly1]

Looks great! Not sure if it’s possible but I was hoping you’d burnish the bottom of them with the whisky and an oak stick! That would really have been incorporating the whisky into the shoe 😀

[@eleven.eastgate.twelve967]

Wow! **jaw-drop** 👍👍

[@PhantomofTheOctagon]

Tell me you’re a hipster without telling me you’re a hipster 😂 Only kidding dude. Really nice work!!

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

🤣

[@jannismahler2518]

Awesome video, very informative! I love the atmosphere. Still wondering how someone can lose the steel shank

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! The inner soles were so loose, the shank came out through the inside of the boots

[@matthewcichocki8249]

Great video, amazing work… lighting not so good tho lol

[@MrMikebarrie]

A single close up of the boots in some natural light would have been amazing. Hard to really see them when the whole video is shot in sepia.

[@JacksonRafferty74]

Live Free… drink whiskey!

[@Panty_Dropper_]

Damn those are sharp as hell. Wonder how much that job cost would love something similar

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

It’s been a while since we did this job, so pricing is foggy, but I think it was around $525 for everything.

[@thanatoast4389]

Dayton is no Flint, but what is. Nice man.

[@jeyhunhashimov3478]

Make more videos please!

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

We are working on it. 😁. We have a few in editing already. Editing takes a lot longer than shooting the video.

[@robertgil5388]

You have an awesome and great video. The whole theme was pretty ingenious. Also what were some of the names of the songs you had featured. Or what type of music. I think the music you had with the Visio was really good it went nice. Best wishes Robert

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! The music is from sound tracks that we purchased rights to. It doesn’t give us the names of the songs or artists though.

[@laurencehiggins239]

Take my MONEY NOW!!!! Can I send you my Iron Rangers to do this too?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

🤣 you definitely can! Include contact information in the package. Ship to: Wyatt and Dad Cobbler Company 3911 Country Club Rd Winston Salem, NC 27104

[@laurencehiggins239]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany Awesome, I'll be sending them your way next week. I'll add my contact info in the package, tell me how much and it's all yours...

[@JacksonRafferty74]

Let’s go Brandon!!!!

[@paulfogarty7724]

You American cobblers have it down to a fine art. I bought a pair of those Iron Rangers here in Dublin Ireland. My concern is what to do when the time comes for a resole. I don't trust the cobblers here as I've seen some really sloppy work ( old welt stitching sticking out all around the welt like eye - lashes ect 🙄 )

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Check out this guy. He is in Ireland and has a good reputation among cobblers instagram.com/reel/CguKUS8lWPA/?igsh=MXVxaW1jOXd5d3A0bQ== We also know a good cobbler in the UK, if that is not trouble to use for mail in. You can watch his work on KZbin CobblerG is the name of his channel. Trenton shoe repair is another channel from the UK to check out

[@ChrisThompson-nn2pv]

👍👍

[@JonathanGrandt]

🤔 so I have two pair of Red Wing Heritage boots. In both pair the leather footbed is all cracked. I have had many different heritage style boots and have ONLY ever experienced this with RWHeritage. I felt like I did a pretty regular job of letting ‘em dry and even used shoe trees, at one point I pulled the trees out on a pair and it had mold growing on the end of it. But what I’m seeing here is all that can be replaced… 🤔

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Correct, we can replace the footbeds (inner soles) when new soles are done. Another thing you can do on future boots, is to use conditioner on the inside 4-6 times a year. That will retard the cracking.

[@patriotfox7192]

😳😳 dude I want my Iron Rangers to look like those.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! We can make it happen for you!

[@patriotfox7192]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany would it be possible to make the width more narrow? I love the iron rangers but they only go down to a D. I am basically a C and once they break in I end up adding a false tongue and extra layer of veg tan inside to tighten them up.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

We don’t offer that service because it requires relasting the boots. We don’t carry those types of last’s. It wouldn’t be an accurate resize without those.

[@patriotfox7192]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany that’s understandable. As soon as I wear out the soles I’ll look you up for something similar to those, with a different twist. Lol

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

We can replace the original inner sole with a much thicker leather inner sole. That would take up some room to reduce volume in the boots. Similar to you adding an additional layer, but built into the boots.

[@JohnStrandt]

For as good as the video looks, it is offset by terrible audio. I hope they upgraded since the making of this one.

[@markmerritt8805]

How much did they cost to resole ?

[@luisg6404]

hey nice video! what kind of boots are you wearing?

[@johnmutton799]

Nicely done sir! How much would something like that cost? very interesting!

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Thanks! That whole package was around $650

[@johnmutton799]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany Was that including the whisky?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

Lol…the customer supplied the whiskey, so I guess the whiskey was extra.

[@CJ2345ish]

How did you stitch the welt onto the boot in the rear section if you didn't add gemming? Doesn't a welt usually attach by going through the gemming? Do you just stitch the welt directly through the leather on upper on the rear section or did the gemming go around the whole boot already? Nice video 🙂

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

The purpose of the gemming is to hold the inner sole to the upper. The boot was originally designed with a heel seat/rand. The upper is attached to the inner sole for that design. Gimming was not necessary since we didn’t change the design of the boots.

[@MattBell73]

Might be a silly question but it's a genuine one....why does nobody ever do a 360 welt on a ranger when breaking them down this far? Is it purely to maintain the narrow heel original look?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

I did a 360 conversion in this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHTHgXmnptOjg9ksi=Whk0mT8ZQ8FN2hZ0 We have done lots of them for customers on Iron Rangers

[@MattBell73]

​@@WyattDadCobblerCompany Thanks for the info and link. Truly amazing work chaps. You've got amazing talent. If only I wasn't half a world away in England you would be doing a 360 conversion on my rangers for sure 👌

[@behindthespotlight7983]

At 2:46 in we haven’t got any work done yet but we’re feeling pretty okay about it 🥃

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

He had to sober up before he could start working. That intro took several attempts and he did a shot on each attempt 🤣

[@koskey06]

The past couple years i been thinking of getting red wings...... really like the iron ranger but have really taken to the blacksmiths as i feel they are a more casual boot. Im just scared if i get ther blacksmith I'll wish i would have just got the iron ranger.....?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

You can’t go wrong either way!

[@BoDiddlydodah]

What is the low top leather shoe on the tree sitting on your desk at the end of the video?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

It’s just a moccasin that was never finished being made.

[@BoDiddlydodah]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany So you sell these? I will look on your site.

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

@@BoDiddlydodah we only sell resoles. We don’t sell shoes or boots. Thanks

[@Shadowmoon999]

We’re can I get ur information to send a pair in

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

WyattandDad.com

[@NogGonnaMakeIt]

The toe box looks so sleek here or is it just the angles?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

It’s mostly the angles, I guess. However, a thicker sole does change the look of the toe box.

[@NogGonnaMakeIt]

@WyattDadCobblerCompany good to know! Can't wait to have my boots resoled by your company

[@EDHBlvd]

How was the shank missing?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

The inner soles were loose from the gimming really bad. They probably fell out when the boots were tossed under his carport.

[@EDHBlvd]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany insane haha

[@aarongarciasolis8827]

Amazing Resole, where do you get that color thread on your stitcher??

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

We buy it from sorrellnotionsfindings.com

[@aarongarciasolis8827]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany thanks for replying, what’s the composition or name to ask for Thanks again!!🙏

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

1mm braided thread

[@aarongarciasolis8827]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany thanks again!!💪🏻💪🏻

[@williamwatkins2538]

Why the steel on the toe part?

[@WyattDadCobblerCompany]

It’s called a Triumph toe plate. They are used by people that drag their toe during their gait cycle. It prevents premature toe wear so they can get full use of the rest of the soles.

[@williamwatkins2538]

@@WyattDadCobblerCompany learn something new everyday