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today we're going to cut apart this pair of whites
Perry motto boots to see if they're still worth it after a thousand ish miles of wear and we're
gonna leave its fate up to the wheel of death and don't forget we just released the moctober
themed wallets two-toning and moctober shirts still available so check those out they just help
support the channel allow us to do some of these more ridiculous stuff like the wheel of death and
guillotines and stuff so I'll put a link in the description now let's go over the boot information
so the brand is whites the style is the Perry mock the color is the distressed brown
but they now have black and red dog they weigh one pound 14 ounces they retail for 269
and they're made in the united states now let's go over the information we can gather about this boot
before we cut it in half and we're just gonna go over to the condition of this boot instead of
going through every single detail because we've already done that in the full brand new pair cut
in half we did last year so be sure to check that out after this video if you want more information
but let's start with the leather so the so the leather looks like it's in pretty decent condition
especially for how much this boot has been used and what this boot has been used for because this
is clearly a work boot that someone was doing some sort of construction or some sort of manual labor
work in and these boots have been resold at least once because if you look at the condition of the
outsole compared to how much the upper's broken in and how um how much worse condition it is in the
outsole so that in and of itself kind of speaks for the quality of the upper that at least made it
to one resole and and it has a lot of life left in it you could probably get at least one more resole
out of this boot and there are some surface cracks and splitting in the leather but none of them go
all the way through and this you see this a lot in work boots because those little teeny particles
of dirt and concrete work their way into the leather and clog it all up and eventually start
working almost like an abrasive to break down that leather so that's why in work boots you see this
type of splitting and there are ways to prevent it all you got to do is clean and condition your
boots but most guys that are wanting a work boot aren't really looking to take care of their
boots as much as someone that's wearing them for more style and there is a pretty big cut in
this leather right here and because this is a three millimeter 3.2 millimeter thick leather
it didn't cut all the way through and that's why a lot of people prefer a thicker leather for
work because if this was the Danners or Thursdays with a two millimeter thick leather that probably
would have gone all the way through and your boots are shot or it could have potentially cut you
you know so right off the bat leather super impressive next to the construction so this
is a goodyear welted boot with a leather welt and I don't even think they had to resole the welt
on when they resold these because if you look at the toe it's starting to get pretty beat up right
there and it doesn't look like that was refreshed and a big part of the reason of why they didn't
have to do a whole lot of work and resolving these is the same thing we saw with Thursdays all the
cobbler has to do is peel this old outsole off and glue a new one on and none of the stitching
has to come undone so that makes them really easy to resell on cheap to resold but the only problem
is sometimes these wedge soles are prone to splitting and there was some issues in the initial
run of these boots of this the outsole coming off just at the toe so that's why in the Carolinas
you see that stitch goes all the way through outsole is stitched on at the front of the boot
to prevent that so it's kind of a trade-off either way if you're looking for a really easy and cheap
boot to resole or more longevity and security with your outsole and speaking of the outsole this is a
Vibram Christy outsole it's a rubber based outsole rather than the Meramec polyurethane outsole
that's that was on the initial one that I cut in half and they've since changed their stock boots
to come with the Vibram and I'm not sure exactly why they did that maybe it maybe it bonds better
to this this rubber midsole I'm not fully sure but the one question i have is where's the
shank now is there still a shank in it because the previous version had the shank built into
the actual outsole itself so I'm curious to see once we get this cut in half and then as for the
overall condition of these boots there's still a lot of life left in these boots they should last
at least through this outsole and probably another one so you get at least three soles on these boots
at least if you're wearing them like this guy's wearing them the only thing that could be repaired
and needs to be repaired is right here at the at the mock toe this moctoe stitching has come
undone or it's worn through it's probably because of all that build up because it's right at that
flex point where that grit's going to slowly wear through that thread but the nice thing is being
a mock toe you just got to get some heavy thread and a needle and you can sew this up yourself
in almost like a saddle stitching way so now I'm really interested to see what the condition of
the inside of this boot is how is that cardboard counter lasted where's the shank the only only
way to do that is by spinning the wheel of death and each video we do one of these thousand mile
boots we add a new portion to the pie that you guys choose by the comment section so let me know
what cutting apparatus you want me to add the most like comment will add to the next
video so let's spin the wheel of death got it hey well we found the shank um but we didn't get
all the way through so I took the other pair for a cleaner cut did it on the
bandsaw so let's see what's inside so that is not the cardboard counter that
I was expecting to see so I reached out to whites to figure out if they had changed the
counter material to leather like this one and they let me know that this was probably
one of the really early Perry mock toes that they made when they still were trying the
leather counter so unfortunately we we're not going to be able to see how the cardboard
counter lasted or the fiberboard counter lasted so I'm hoping that they eventually move towards
these leather counters for the reasons we talked about in the Thursday video last time because
they just hold up a lot better but a lot of interesting things on the inside look how shined
the inside of this boot is you know this lining used to be the rough out suede texture leather
and it's completely flattened out almost like a wax flesh now and all this there's a literal shine
at the heel and there's also a little bit of mold in this boot you can see right there so that's
why you want to make sure your boots are all the way dry and a lot of times people get two pairs of
boots to rotate between so you don't get constant moisture in there building up and developing
mold and the other thing I really like is I love how these leather lasting boards really shape
to the shape of your foot you can see a very clear footprint of where the the guy's foot that was
wearing these sat and you don't get that with fiberboard because fiberboard doesn't it's not as
thick and it doesn't compress as much and you do get some of that compression because of the cork
underneath just like this boot you can see that cork is smashed almost a millimeter thick but it
but it hasn't really shifted or clumped up in any way I think that's totally fine because there's
not a lot of cork in this boot to begin with and now we can really see where that shank
destroyed the the chain on the chainsaw right there underneath the cork so and it's a pretty
long shank actually it's it's runs from there to there so it's a nice heavy duty shank and if
it's if you're getting this for a work boot it's necessary to have a shank so to me it's a pretty
good value and the way I came to that conclusion is comparing it to the the closest moctoe which is
a thorough good for 250 it's also made the united states so for 20 dollars more in the parries
you get the leather welt you get the leather lasting board and you get a thicker more heavy
duty leather upper but that doesn't always mean a better value for each person because some people
might value the the almost zero breaking period of the thorough goods the comfort of the thorough
goods and the slightly lower price of the thorough goods so comparing the two and cutting a worn out
version in half really tells me that these these boots are still worth it after a thousand miles
because this has a well they had at least another resole in them so let me know what you guys think
and if you own a pair of these what your personal experience is with them and don't forget to
vote for the next portion of the pie for the the wheel of death and moctober rolls on so
thanks you guys thank you guys for watching see ya
