Handwork is in every part of making our boots. We trace and click the uppers by hand, cut and skive the counters by hand, trim and bevel the edge of the lasting board by hand, last by hand—you get the picture. Our handwork processes result in a boot that has had hours and hours of personal attention before our customers ever set eyes on it.

From our workshop in Media, Pennsylvania, we take great pride in continuing the long tradition of bootmaking in the United States, which is why every pair of our boots is made to the highest standards of American craftsmanship, using the best quality materials we can source.

Our boots are hand lasted on a 9–10 oz wet-molded lasting board with hand-skived, vegetable-tanned counters and super soft 13–15 oz vegetable-tanned midsoles. The waist and heel is Blake stitched through the lasting board, upper allowance, and midsole. The vamp is stitched down twice: once to the midsole and again to the outsole.

All of our vegetable-tanned leather comes from Hermann Oak Leather Co., whose tanning roots in Missouri go back over 140 years.

Our upper leathers come from some of the finest tanneries in the country and around the world, including Horween Tannery, Wickett & Craig, S.B. Foot Tanning Co., C.F. Stead Sheepscar Tannery, among others. And our structural leathers are no lesser, coming from Hermann Oak Leather Co. and Black Forest Pit Tan. Our linings are sheep, buck, or pigskin.

Available in sizes 6–13 and widths D and E.

Our Service Boot last is a versatile boot last that has a medium heel lift and toe spring, and a medium-high instep volume. Volume in the waist, heel, and forefoot are good, and the last runs true to Brannock size. If you have questions about sizing, please reach out to us via email at info@oldspeed.shop or on our Instagram or Facebook pages.

Additional lasts will be available soon to give our customers more variety of handmade American boots.

Our patterns are respectful to history without being rigid to tradition. Our classic Service Boot gives a vintage look with forward quarters and a heel cap that accentuates the line of the waist of the shoe as it travels forward to the metatarsal joint. These features speak to the longevity of a good boot and a good design—the concept has aged beautifully and so will the boot.