Review of the Grant Stone Diesel Boot in Saddle Tan Veg
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2024
- What's This Video About?
This is my review of the Grant Stone Diesel Boot in Saddle Tan Veg. It's a combination service boot/dress boot/work boot that starts off quite orange but settles into warm honey. The Badalassi Carlo tannery leather from Italy will be no stranger to patina as it is worn.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Style and aesthetics
01:52 Grant Stone
04:28 Construction and QC
09:56 Comfort, Fit and Sizing
12:19 What to wear it with
13:31 Leathercare
15:15 Value
17:09 Conclusion
18:26 Look-book
Who Am I?
I am a Management Consultant in real life but in my Bootlosophy channel, I make videos about boots and all things boot related. This channel posts reviews of boots, unboxing of new boots, and follow up reviews, and in doing so, may explore the philosophy of the brands from time to time!
I have owned boots for decades, but to be honest I have owned them as functional pieces of footwear. It wasn't until early 2020 when COVID struck that I started online shopping boots to an obsessive degree. I love the aesthetic of boots and I love finding out more about how they are made. I now own an insane number of boots, and one day I may sell some of them (just not right now).
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Grant Stone really nails that classic plain toe boot look. Just wish they made more in this leather! While all of the leather they use is nice, most of them just don’t tickle my fancy. Also love the leather sole, highly underrated
Thanks for putting together these great videos! Your reviews are the most comprehensive I've encountered and so helpful. I especially appreciate that you show your boots after some wear and aging instead of just out of the box.
I have the Ottawa boot in natural Badalassi Minerva, great boots, great leather! I have 4 pairs of Grant Stone now and no regrets.
Thank you for these reviews! I rely on youtube, reddit and blog-style reviews for things I purchase and I find your boot reviews to be the most thorough, most insightful and best articulated reviews around. Thank you for what you do!
I've been patiently wearing my pair of Saddle Tan Diesel for six months and they are starting to darken. Also, loving the leather sole. Grown up boots!
Try Grant Stone Diesel Cognac Ostrich. These are fantastic boots. Incredibly well made, gorgeous and UNIQUE. I have them and I couldn't be more impressed.
I think Thursday boots are getting a bit of a bad wrap in this video, because I think, just like with Grant Stone, being a direct to consumer brand allows them to provide very nice quality boots at a much cheaper price than they would be able to sell them at if they sold them in a brick and mortar store. In Thursday's case, it's at entry level pricing. Doesn't really mean the quality is entry level. Yes, Grant Stone is higher quality, but not so much higher as to make the comparison irrelevant.
Great review. Clear and concise as always.
Man, I love your videos. I’m well on my way to becoming a boot snob because of you. Thank you!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic review. Love this channel.
Great video. I just started wearing them this week. Love them!
Excellent video. Thank you.
Just ordered this boot.
Excellent review! I happen to have a pair of these very boots and I am quite happy with them. Materials, construction quality, and QC are all excellent. I would recommend them without hesitation. Again, I enjoyed your video and subbed. Thanks!
Thank you for your informative reviews! The way you present is very calming. In a way you are responsible for sinking me in the black hole of buying boots! 😂
Great review, thank you for sharing🙂👍. The color is beautiful and the welt is really attractive.
My compliments to you , I enjoy your videos your explanations and your personality.
Thank you
One of my favorites
Excellent Boots as well as Video Teik! Thorough and Informative 👏👍
Thanks Skyler!
Beautifully stated as always sir. I've been looking for a pair of leather soled boots and just picked these up from Grant Stone. Can't wait to start working on that patina.
Excellent review, as always. Insightful, calming and very pleasant to watch.
I own 4 pairs of Grant Stones and love them all but the Diesel in this stunning leather, and on leather soles, is by far my favourite. I have the Diesel on both rubber and leather soles and it's amazing how much more comfortable leather soles are.They mold to you feet more and just feel a lot better (if usage/terrain allows).
Periodic care for the leather soles with something like Saphir Sole Guard extends their lifespan significantly.
You are putting out some great videos
I want these! I was led here by your Truman reviews, and found these beauties!
One of the best boot reviews if not the best.
I myself dislike the long laces and will not wrap around the boot that look is ridiculous, I just cut about 4 inches on each side to solve that extra hanging lace when it's tide.
@@whereRbearsTeeth yes I tide it normal and cut off what's not needed, so now when I tie it it's a perfect length
Just recently ordered a diesel boot in jungle kangaroo and an Ottawa boot in natural Kangaroo. This is my first purchase with GS. Looking forward to both!
Beautiful boots.
Great video, good job!
great review
That badalassi leather is so beautiful. I wish they offered it in the Edward boot model.
I'm a big fan of the Edward. I have it in loden suede.
@@timgeist1450 Is the loden suede a true Olive? I’ve seen one video where it almost looks gray. On the Grant stone pictures it looks like a mild olive/brown. I like a lot of the style cues on the Edward as well over the Diesel
@@aradoran That's the million dollar question, lol! I would agree with most guys that say it's basically an olive green, with changes in different lighting that can shade them brownish and grayish. Bottom line though, I find them to be a perfect muted olive green.
This is offered in Natural Minerva (right now 20% off soon to be discontinued) in the Edward, it will age to look like this if you want it to. 👍😎👞
Just got my diesel boots in Kudu. Love them. Definitely go a half size smaller than your sneakers.
Nice shirt with the pearl buttons.
EXCELLENT REVIEW TEIK!!!!
Thanks Dale, much appreciated
Have you checked out the Edward Kangaroo? Everyone needs some Roo. Next pair will be the Diesel Dune Chrome. Love the vids. Your one of the top 5 boot channels on YT.
Great review. I appreciate your management expertise in the evaluation. I spent I suppose a couple thousand dollars (US) during the pandemic in shoes and boots. A couple Thursdays (my feet don't really fit the last, but if I couldn't wear the President, I'm doing ok with a TTS Diplomat), a couple Wolverine BLVDs (plain toe service boot and a Chelsea that do fit my feet), a Rancourt moc boot, an RM Williams gardener comfort Chelsea that I should have gone up 1/5 beyond TTS) and a half-off Alden plain toe on the Barrie last. I also bought a 1/2 off Red Wing shoe (8109), and a couple of Clarks (camp moc and a cheaper casual shoe to add to my suede desert boots and a wedge sole redo of a leather desert shoe). They're all good, and in rotation, may be all the boots I need for the rest of my life. But it's fun to sigh at these higher end products!
Yup the pandemic sure got us all going!
I tend to be a naturalist and understated in my taste. So this boot grabs my attention. Like the below comment, I wish they would offer a couple other colors. I've never worn this saddle tan color before so I'm leery of how I'd wear it. My preferences have always been chocolate brown, oxblood and black. This would surely be a stretch...
I’d like this make up with a commando sole
I have 3 pairs of GS boots. My first pair was a pair of Crimson cxl Ottawa’s, my second pair was a pair of Dune cxl Diesel’s, and my 3rd pair is the black cxl Diesel’s with the leather sole. I love all my boots but I’m still on the fence about leather soles. They seem to be more comfortable but I don’t like how slippery they are.
They ARE slippery
Great review! Just started my boot collection, it’s looking though I’m going to buy a few more Grant Stones before I try other brands, and it’s for the reasons you stated. Great quality, great looks, great price! My first pair was the Diesel boot in Dune. If you were me, would you get the diesel in black or the Veg Tan? I want a leather sole but I feel like the veg tan would look too close to the dune in color.
The saddle tan Veg will patina very differently from the Dune but if you’re starting a collection, unless you favour tans, I’d try the black first. You can always circle back later!
Just took delivery of a pair of Diesels in Dune CXL having been inspired by your other reviews and I'm blown away by the quality. To be honest they put my UK-made Loakes to shame! Really looking forward to seeing how they age.
Glad you like them! Would have been disastrous if you bought them because of my review and hated them, LOL!
@@Bootlosophy haha thankfully not much chance of that!
I want a pair but will have to pay double the price after custom duties in my country which is a bummer.
Beautiful boot. This is on the top of my list for my first nice boot.
How do these compare to the Edward?
I prefer the Diesel from an aesthetic point of view. Fit wise, exactly the same
What kind of denim shirt is that ?
Love the leather on these boots. Think they’d look ok with jeans and a flannel shirt? Nice jeans?
Absolutely! They’re really versatile.
To me yes quality is important. The leather used, stitching and components. However the most important thing to me is comfort. Even though Red Wings are decent quality, the likes of Iron Rangers aren’t as comfortable for me even after break in let’s say compared to my Indy’s.
@@whereRbearsTeeth have you ever tried the Indy’s? Red Wings are even in the same league when it comes to comfort.
What is the sizing compared to Thursdays captain? The captain in rt3 last is only boot I own. Size 7 seems to work ok for my small feet, Im looking at walnut bison field boot for next boot.
I take the same size
I'm debating whether I should get these diesel veg tan boots from Grant stone or look for a used alden plain toe burnished tan on ebay. This video is making me want to get the diesels but the leather sole is holding me back.
You can always put on a sole protector
@@Bootlosophy Teik, I ended up picking up a pair of these and I've had them for a week. The break in process has been painful/awful. Predominantly the insole. I wear thick socks and it still feels like I'm walking on concrete while wearing thin dress socks. I'm tempted to get rid of them and just go back to ny alden indys which everyone can attest that they are very comfortable and require no break in period.
However, I wanted to ask you how your break in process went. As I mentioned, it's mainly the footbed that is killing my feet. It only been a week, but it's a week longer than I've ever needed to break in my indys.
@@modernvintagelifestyles I didn’t have much of a break in. I found the leather soles bedded in within a couple of weeks BUT they didn’t flex at the ball of my feet for a while longer because there’s so much leather
I'm an 8.5 between C and D width and I have a pair of Brass Boots from Grant Stone in 7.5D and my foot is SWIMMING in them. I have to wear thick wool socks and put insoles in them to ensure a snug fit. Debating on whether to get a 7D or 6.5D in the diesels this spring.
The Leo last is definitely less volume than the Floyd
I’m a 10C and I wear 8.5 D in grant stone Leo last. I do have low arches too so my foot is pretty low volume.
@@xxflamezxx1able this makes me feel about the 7D I ordered that arrived this morning while I was at work. Can’t wait to try them on!
What about 7e??? You don't want your toes smashing
@@user-hc5pi5zh5jupdate????
When did Grant Stone stop doing leather soles on the Diesel? (mines came with the rubber sole, which I’m totally fine with)
They have different soles on different uppers. Go check the website
I'm really eyeballing the kudu burgundy or kudu grey
Are they heavy boots btw?
@@luisbarrera5740 yeah, they're not light, but I wouldn't say they're heavy like Truman or Whites. Weightwise, they compare with say Iron Rangers
@@Bootlosophy One last thing I wanted to mention. There's a company that makes very interesting boots called Untamed Street. However, I cannot find a single thing about the quality of their boots. Their Aston Edge is a particularly attractive zip up boot. Reason I'm bringing it up is as a recommendation to check them out given how relatively unknown they are. Thank you for everything ✌
Did you have any heel slip when you first got your diesels? Did it go away?
Nio heel slip. Check your size
why is it that the pricing is different here in the UK? i checked on their site, and the diesel veg tan is 380 USD. I would choose these over Thursday boots, everyday (no pun intended)
They’ve had a price rise from when this video was uploaded
Did you waterproof these? Do you have to worry about rain?
I usually don’t waterproof my full grain. They spot when it rains but they dry out fine
im not a fan of speed hooks, i wish there were more boots available without them.