G'day. Welcome to Bootlossophy. If we haven't met before, my name is Tech. Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands that I live and work on, the widget people. Now, you're wondering why I'm in an echoey little room here. This is my laundry room. That's because I'm about to do something with these iron ranger boots. So for those of you who have been following my channel for a while, you'll probably know that I own a pair of really well-conditioned iron ranger boots from Red Wing, if you don't go check out this video. But since then, I bought a second pair of iron rangers, both of them in Amber Harness, the old pair in this new pair. So with the newer pair, which is actually a pre-owned pair from eBay as well, which has a much better Amber Harness finish, I wondered what to do with the older pair that had been so well-conditioned. They actually look dark brown. Now, these are extremely dirty because I have used them as proper work boots. Even in Australia, where work boots like these are not really seen as work boots. They're seen as, you know, hipster-ish heritage boots. But I did use this as work boots, and again, you can check that video out. And as you can see, they're covered in all sorts of dust and cement dust. The sole is pretty much covered. It's scuffed and so on, but it's still that very dark color. This is the other pair. And I've decided that what I'm going to do is to clean these up, and then because I have a pair of Amber Harness where the leather is not as so, you know, soft and well-conditioned and oil-infused.  So let's start with washing them. So first things first, let's take off the laces so that I can actually get into the tongue area and really clean up these boots properly. I'm going to replace the laces with black laces. I'm not going to bother cleaning them up, but if you did want to clean your laces, what I normally do is put them into a little old jam jar full of dish washing fluid, shake them up a bit and then dry them out. Laces off.  There's not really much here. And then the next step is to get a hard bristle brush and really just start brushing away and getting some of the loose cement dust and grit and dirt off. Making sure you go right around the boot into the welt area, toe box, and then not forgetting behind the lace holes and the tongue gusset area. I'm going to come back to this boot in a minute, but let's do the other one. So once again, make sure the welt line is nice and brushed, all parts of the boot. I'm going to come back to this boot and just with an old toothbrush, make sure the welt line really is clean of dirt and dust and anything that might really harden into the leather. Same with this boot too much. Then I'm going to also clean the soles and make sure there's no dust and grit down there. That's going to come back up on the leathers. Then I'm going to start saddle soaping. So I'm using an Australian made natural leather soap made by Artisan Sun in a here in Australia. It's made of natural elements including little beeswax and so on. A hard gel and what I'll do spray a bit of water on it, a bit of water into the lids so that I can replenish the water supply as it were, get a doorber brush and really just create a bit of a foam, get some suds up, a bit more water. Once I've got sufficient sudsiness, sudsiness is a word, I'll start cleaning the boots. Now what I do is I suds up sections of the boot at a time so I know where I've been. So I'll start with the toe box and the vamp area and what I like to do is actually then dry off the soap, not allowing it to dry out onto the leather itself. I wouldn't worry about the edges. I'm going to come through with a wet toothbrush and clean those out. So I know that panel's done with more saddle soap and I'll do the tongue. Give it a good scrub to get all that dirt out and then wipe it off. What I'm trying not to do is actually soak the leather which can weaken it if you over-soak more saddle soap and then I'll do the quarters in the back counts area, the heel counter area. You'll notice that what I'm also doing is cleaning the heels and the edges. Come back to that boot in a minute. Let's start this one. A little bit more water I think. Unlike the seats to be reasonably damp. Again, toe box and vamp area making sure the welt and the edging is also scrubbed nicely. The tongue, I'm not sure if you can see on camera, but the suds actually turn a little brown as I'm scrubbing, which is really the dirt lifting off, which is a good thing. More suds. You can see it is a little bit dirty. And now the quarters and the heel stay area. The heel counter cover area. Not forgetting the heels and the edges. Once again, let's clean that off.  And you notice soap and things still on the edges, but that's fine. We're going to come around and clean that up. So let me just wash the brush and I'm going to allow my brush to get reasonably damp and just give it a good brushing over to remove any last bits of dirt, any last bits of suds without getting it totally wet and then dry it with my rag. This is a microfiber cloth with a wet toothbrush. Just get the suds off the edges and along the different panels behind the speed hooks.  Again, I'll just dampen the brush and you see the dab brush acts as kind of a rinsing off action without actually getting the boot all drenched. I will use the tap, though, right at the end to just rinse off the sole. Wet toothbrush. Just to clean out the welt area. It's important to do that, particularly as I'm going to dye it as well so that there isn't any remnants of suds and lather on the edges to maybe not absorb the dye. And finally, just a little drip and I'm just going to wash off the sole. There you go. Reasonably nicely washed up now. It is damp, no doubt about it, so I'm going to let it dry for 24 hours before I do the next step, which is the actual dyeing. So it's been over a week now and these have thoroughly dried from the washing. I've just ran out of time being very busy at work, so I haven't been able to get back round to these. For over a week now.  So the dye I'm using is a Terago Penetrating dye, which I got from my cobbler. It came with this ridiculous brush rather than the round applicator that you often see, like, you know, this is going to take me six hours. So I got a simple paintbrush. It may be except for the edging I might use this one. So the first thing I'm going to do is pour a little bit of this Penetrating dye, I suppose I should shake it. That's what you do with liquids. And then I'll pour a little of this Penetrating dye into this container. Now, this is a new background that I'm filming in because I didn't want to do this indoors or more to the point. My wife didn't want me to do this indoors. So let's just get this out of the way safely. So what I'm going to do is just basically start to apply the dye on to the boot and I'll start with the hard to reach places first. So I'll start dyeing the inside gusseted area of the tongue. Oh, by the way, after I'd washed and these had dried, I wiped them down with a mixture of 50% rubbing alcohol and 50% water diluted. Just to get rid of the last bits of oils and waxes and any kind of oily covering that might still have been on the leather. So I'm just liberally brushing it on, really, making sure I get as much coverage over the brown, what was once amber harness leather with this Penetrating dye. Now, I'm hoping I don't have to do two coats of this dye because I don't want it to be that well covered in black. Because I wouldn't mind if it does if a little bit of the brown does start to show through a little afterwards. The contrast white stitching on the sides, I think I'm never going to be able to preserve that. So I'm going to just cover it over with the dye anyway. And I think that's fine. But there will be some stained white stitching on the welt, which will be hopefully masked by this masking tape. I'm finding the dye extremely liquid, which I guess it has to be in order to penetrate the leather. I asked the cobbler, there are two types of dyes, apparently. This one will be absorbed into the leather, which is what I wanted. And the other one tends to sit on the surface. Don't worry about the staining of the the hardware, because I'll wipe them off in time. They shouldn't, the dye shouldn't stick to the chrome anyway. Yes, what I'm finding is that this dye really does soak into the leather. And I'm not sure if you can see it on camera, particularly in this bright sunlight that we're having a sort of late summer as we go into autumn. I don't know if you can see in this light that in fact, it's it's slightly blotchy as it gets absorbed. I'm hoping that it absorbs evenly. So I'm beginning to see that as it soaks in, it's see it is soaking in quite evenly. So my original concerns perhaps won't be met. It's going to make sure I get it correctly around this around the hardware. And I just noticed some brown bits on the tongue that I completely missed because I didn't want to paint the palm of my hands. And because the tongue is crinkly, it's actually quite hard anyway. Yes, so if I'm careful, I think I can avoid the necessity of a second coat. Just making sure I cover all the brown that remains and that I can see. Right, I'm just going to touch the edges of the collar. Just there. And I don't mind if this isn't fully covered in here, of course. Now, it's taking on the appearance of the washed amber harness. In other words, not particularly shiny, but that's fine. I'm going to condition these after they've been dyed. Put a little bit extra dye into this container. And let's start again with the inside of the tongue. You notice I'm wearing rubber gloves. Not my habit to do so. Again, these are instructions from my wife. I think I probably have to agree it's a reasonable caution. It's making sure I get in all the nooks and crannies in the edges of it, of each piece of leather. Did I get that? Yes, I did. If you're not careful, it can drip. And I'm hoping that doesn't mean it leaves streaks. It didn't appear to me at the boot where I, as you saw, I splashed maybe a little over liberally. Yes, as I was saying, once the leather dries, and I guess I should read the instructions to see how long that takes. Who reads instructions? Once the leather dries, I'm going to condition it because it then doesn't matter being a black pair of boots that it's over conditioned. And I'm not sure what I'll condition it. Maybe maybe just Venetian shoe cream. Because I think I'd like a sort of slightly less matte appearance than what it's looking at now. And a little wax in the Venetian shoe cream would be quite nice, I think. Oh, and another occupational health and safety measure, according to my wife, is I am actually wearing an apron. I believe she was concerned about staining my T-shirt, which I did the other day when I was repairing the shoes. Repairing the concrete cracks in our porch and my white T-shirt was well and truly ruined by cement stains as they splashed around. So again, just been careful to get amongst the stitches in the corners there. Yes, so as I was saying, I don't really want to put a second coat on because I'm hoping that with wear, some of this dark brown and maybe even the original amber harness leather will start to show through kind of like a T-core effect. T-core. That wonderful thing with black chrome XL that everybody hopes for, which apparently is quite fashionable these days to have your black aniline dye sort of rub through onto the original brown of the leather. Okay, I think that's just about done. I'll do this bit now. Iron ranges might be mid-priced boots, but doing something like this where you're actually diving into the stitching and the leather and so on, you get to tell really how well made they are. Right. There you go. Okay, I think I'm happy with that. We'll let it dry properly, let the dye dry properly. It is streaking and I'm not sure if you can see it, but I'm hoping that as it dries, there'll be less streaks and then once I varnish it, once I condition it with some wax and maybe a little polish, that should be fine. Okay, so we'll let it dry. I'm back and this is becoming the longest video I've ever made. I don't mean the length of the video, but the amount of time it's taken me to do this from start to finish from actually cleaning out the boots right through to dyeing them and then getting to this stage. It's taken weeks, partly because I've been busy and so I've had gaps in between, but oh my gosh, let's finish this off. So here are my new from eBay boots, new to me boots, the 8111s iron ranges. I think earlier in the video I might have said 8011, which of course is wrong because that's the copper rough and tough. This is the amber harness and I really like this sort of iconic boot and as those of you who've watched my earlier videos will know that I got an earlier pair that was seriously over conditioned. So when I saw these come up on eBay for actually 100 Australian dollars less and I got the other one, I had to get it, which left me with a decision of what to do with the older pair. And as you saw, I cleaned it up and dyed it and here we are. There it is in black. Ignore that little patch. It's actually a reflection of the light directly above me. So I've dyed it in black and I've given it a one silver with Venetian shoe cream and then a little cream polish just to give it a little bit of a sheen. It's not shiny by any means. I guess I could put some wax polish on it, but I'm quite happy with the way this is. So as you can see, I now have two pairs of iron ranges. They're both 8111s, but here is the original amber harness color and here is my dyed in black pair. So, you know, I hope you stayed with me to the end. I hope you enjoyed it because it's taken me a hell of a long time to do this. Look, keep in touch. You do that by subscribing and if you like this video, click on like and take care of yourselves. Come on back to this channel to look for more boot reviews and until next time, look after yourselves.


Hey guys, before the video starts I have a little announcement. Finally got the stickers in person. This is what they look like. Go buy them. They should be in the description already. You already know I'm about to put this all over that table.  And if I see anyone being xenophobic in my comments just so you know my monoliths are watching, you ain't slick. I'll block you. Alright, enjoy. Bye. Hello, Bidget. My name is FaceMass because I expect every one of you to have one in this day and age. This video is a little bit different because we haven't done vlogs in a little bit on this channel.  Every other college was like, no, no, we're closing too. Harvard said we're all going away even though there's nothing in Boston yet and NYU finally decided, okay, yeah, we'll agree too. So right now it is Tuesday, March 10th. My spring break was supposed to start this Friday and last a week, but I'm going to be taking online classes until March 29th, I think. And they will tell us on March 23rd if this is going to be extended or like NYU is going to be completely shut down and just be online for the rest of the semester. So I'm going to take you through this journey of going through a outbreak throughout the world. Also, I'm wearing a bucket head indoors because my hair is currently going through it.  Those blinds are going to stay closed for the rest of eternity. My dad said, you're not going to use that car. You're not going shopping. I'm not even going to go get gas anymore.  But I know a good amount of you guys have been asking me about my major and how the classes are at NYU and midterms were coming up this week and I was going to do a study with me video but it seems as though that's been pushed back too. So I'm just going to show you what happens throughout this journey. Currently, I have to be finishing one of my writing exercises for Xbox, which is advanced college essay. So we're going to see how long this takes because it is 1116 p.m. And I haven't done anything. So how online classes work for us at least is we're going to be all going on something called Zoom. It's basically like a discord and a Skype and Google Hangouts. I'm just realizing how amazing a sponsorship between Zoom and every YouTuber in college would have been. Zoom, you missed that on a great opportunity. And I still have to show up on time. So my classes start at 10, 30 a.m. tomorrow. Kind of seems like I should be getting a refund because I signed up for person to person classes. They haven't told us anything about getting refunds but I'm also not paying for housing for a good amount. Meal plans too. I expect a little bit of money back because y'all made me pay full tuition for a reason and I'm not getting what's worth of full tuition at the moment. Also because some people are going home to California. If they have an 8 a.m. class, they technically have to wake up at 5 a.m. in California. Which is also not fair. So here's the homework I have to do by tomorrow. I have to read this article. Let's see how long this is. Oh God. By the way, if you've used up all of your free articles because New York Times is a bitch, just open an incognito window. Paste the link again. And there you go. I also have to read this one and then this one. And they're all like 10 pages. So one moment. So I ended up reading one of the great articles. I'm going to get eight hours of sleep. I'm going to wake up at 8 30. Read the next two articles. Be on time for my physics lecture at 10 30 a.m. After that lecture, I'm going to spend the next two hours writing my essay and then have it prepared for class. Good night. See you tomorrow. Rise and shine. Don't talk about it. I have an online class about physics. That's going to last until 12 12. It's a lecture. So I need to go take notes for a little bit. I realized by this example is that we had example one was a kinematics problem. We're currently on a five minute break. So I got Girl Scout cookies and two oranges. I still have an hour left of this class. Do you want to say hi? Hi. I am the result of a corona virus. Look at that gang. Look at that gang. So it's currently 155 p.m. Right now and I haven't done. Oh, sorry. Just appreciating my skin. I've not read the two other articles and I still have to do the essay. That's due at 430 because my English class starts then but I also have a still a moving class between 230 and 420. We don't do much in that class. So I'm just going to do it during that. I've only eaten shortbread cookies and oranges. So I should probably get some food except my dad has quarantined me in this room because I'm not allowed to leave. Actually, I just wrote my email and it says I'm not going to be having English class but I still have to turn it in on time. So I technically end at 420. Don't mind me. I'm reading while I'm also in the zoom meeting. This is my class now. $200 a class. Let me remind you that is how much it costs to go to NYU when Khan Academy is free. My teacher is making us unmute ourselves and to turn the camera on. So you already know. These are my two best friends in my class. So my classes are done for today and now I have to do homework for tomorrow. All my midterms are canceled still and apparently who just declared coronavirus a pandemic NYU said is getting increasingly likely that it's going to be an online semester because a lot of colleges are already doing it.  Wait and see. This is day two of being quarantined. Hello vlog. So I've been finishing some homework because I have class tomorrow at 1030 and I was talking with some of my friends and we're all convinced that we're not going to be going back for NYU. This is going to be the rest of our semester just online classes because Temple University has already gone online. U Penn has gone online. A lot of other colleges like I don't I don't have to list them. You can look them up and it really sucks because 20% of NYU is international and it's kind of hard to get a flight back when there's no flights going out.  That being said, I just wanted to talk a little bit about the more racist things that have been going on because this virus. I mainly try not to become political or talk about issues on this channel because it's mainly for shits and giggles and I mainly do it to entertain but sometimes things just bug me to an extent that I should talk about it. So I saw this post on Instagram. I'm not going to bother showing it because it's going to be blurry. Here it is and I don't know who posted that but I'm going to assume they're in a school or in college.  That's all I'm going to say.  Don't stop taking your family to Chinese takeouts every Friday just because they're Chinese. Like I don't get where the fear comes from. Like if they were from Wuhan, they would have had it already. It's been like what months? Also no one in China can leave at the moment.  He just whispers that and like turned bright red. I wasn't paying attention but that's what my friends said. And like clearly he got uncomfortable because of the mask. And if you had a basic education, you would know that the mask is supposed to prevent you from getting sick.  But like I haven't really seen anything else happen personally but I've heard many stories and I'm not going to bother talking about it because that's your own research.  But yeah, this xenophobia is really not fun because you know, damn well, it doesn't happen to an Italian. But anyways, I'm going to finish my reading. I just remember this too. There's not a lot of public schools and that I know of at least that are you know, being made online. Granted, I know it's hard, but like still it's not just public schools. Like public universities are more resistant to turning online than private. Then I will see you guys tomorrow when I have class. I didn't do that right. Good morning. I have class in like five minutes and I have to show my face and I have to look like this.   This is my audio class and look at my professor's setup.  Because of the changes that have been happening recently and I'm not excited like this might be like the end of like my freshman experience. So like kind of sad that I have to leave the city. One benefit from having online classes is that I get to stay at home and just eat good food and study. But also you need to take a look at this. Look at my background. Zoom kind of lit though. Oh, my daily FaceTime is coming. Good morning. Morning. Where is she? She's not going to come. She's unloyal. Alright, let's debrief her class. There she is. Oh my God, I can invite anyone in NYU. I can see who's in a class right now. That's so weird. This is day three of being quarantined. Hello. Oh my God. Welcome to my Zoom class. Today, we are going to be teaching how to make a famous TikTok. Oh, okay. So you brought me as the guest. Yes. First step, you have to be white. If you are female, you must have a crop top and dance oddly sexually. If you are male, you must take your shirt off. You can speak on the lesbian portion of TikTok. Okay. Yeah. No, I'm going to speak on the gay male.  I think I'm the straight females of TikTok. Oh, Caroline has a question. She raised her hand. No, I'm lowering your hand. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. It's corona time. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Everyone, I want to draw. That was so weird. So update. I got an email this morning from NYU that says we can't no longer have guests over like overnight or just for the day.  But also I think five other colleges just turned online for the rest of the semester. And NYU is a big school and we're like what in the middle of the city. So they're probably going to end up being online for the rest of the semester, but they were very reluctant to put us online. In the first place, like a lot of colleges already did it beforehand. And if they don't tell us soon enough, like how could break loose?  And if they fly home before our college announces that we're ending the whole semester and they have to fly back and get their stuff. So like, what are you doing? Just put us online already. You know it's going to happen. I'm lucky enough to be able to drive back because it's only an hour away. But some people can't even go back to their home because Trump stopped some of the flights to Europe. All of today's classes are done. I just have to do some homework for tomorrow. Which I'll be taking a quiz on something called... What was it called? Rade Scope? Never heard of that before, but I haven't heard of Zoom before this. I still have weekly quizzes in physics, but I don't have anything from it in terms yet because they've all been pushed back. I'm just still thinking like, this is $200 a class. Like, I'm paying for Khan Academy. And NYU still says the dorms are open, which means we're paying for it, even though majority of people have gone home already. I also saw that my friends who were either at Tisch for acting or photography, also people who are in music, all the rooms are closed so you can't even practice. What's the point of even going then?   And I also watched Contagion yesterday. I don't know why I would. I went to sleep at 3am because of it. We'll see what happens in a day. I'm gonna go edit some videos, so I'll see you tomorrow. Nevermind, I'm back. I'm sitting here trying to take a good nap. I get an email from the president of NYU. Spring break's about to start, but at this point, none of us should contemplate recommending in-person classes before April 19th. What's the point of going back for a month? Just end it.  They want us to just be okay with online even though that's not what we paid for. It's not what we signed up for. And yes, I know I'm already very lucky to even be in college and don't even get me started on privilege. I'm not gonna debate that today. Oh, well, I hope all the business students are researching into how we can get money back because you can tell us, okay? I just draw. Oh my God, it looks terrible. For anyone wondering, it's a face mask. I just worked out in my own room because my dad doesn't want me to go to the gym anymore. And while I was showering, I just randomly got the thought that, like, I don't see a lot of creators talking about the racism going on in, like, the world because of coronavirus. I don't know, it's just a thought. And now I'm curious as to how many comments I'll get from people accusing me of having the virus simply because of my monolid. If I see one, I'm gonna pin it just so you know. And I also realized I left my mic back at my dorm and one of the things I was gonna paint for my friend, I left all of my clothes too and I don't have the will to drive up there and come back just for two things.  I don't think we're gonna be coming back April 19th but I've done all my homework tomorrow. I have a physics quiz and tomorrow's gonna be the last day I film this because I'm not vlogging a month. Man, I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye. Good morning. How did I manage to wake up two minutes before my class? I don't know, but I'm gonna get on my physics lecture. So like having some kind of like skeleton to like write on would be awesome. Keep that up, yeah. What's that? Weave this up so I can write this. Well, it seems as though my class just ended randomly. Five minutes into class, it just broke. Every single recitation ended according to my friends. So I'm just gonna eat breakfast because I can't stand that class. First of all, our lecture is divided into like five recitations. My teacher had difficulty with his class. So we were sent to another one. And in that class, as you heard, this person was demanding the teacher to give us the notes or rather her the notes because no one else cared. They were like, could you just leave it on the screen before we start? I can't learn if it's not in front of me. And I'm like, that is not how you learned in class at all because the teacher would write it and you copy it. She said, could you just send a PDF each time before the class starts? I'm like, then what's the point of learning? It also slowed us down by quite a while because she copied two pages worth of stuff. My sister is coming tomorrow and I don't know how long she's gonna stay but she's driving up and she says she needs to take some toilet paper home because everything is sold out where she is. Our dorm told us for anyone leaving for spring break or for the whole period of remote instruction, please remember to empty the fridge, take out your trash and lock your suite. And I swear to God, if I see food in the fridge when I come back a month later, even though I specifically told them, please take stuff out because it's my fridge. I'm gonna throw hands. You already know I'm making a roommate's video in the summer, I'm just waiting because I don't wanna do it now.  I really want my money back. Business students, look into this please. Make this your final project, getting our refund back. But yeah, that's how my week went. I was in New York three days ago. I don't think these bitches realize they're unmuted right now. You're all unmuted. Well, the class started again. I don't know when but I joined in. Everyone was unmuted. It was chaos. This is what it's gonna be like for what? The rest of the semester. Gonna have to get used to it. That's all I have you guys. I'm not really gonna make more vlogs about being home because of Corona. I just thought maybe it'd be nice to show a little perspective because I bet a lot of other people are in the same situation.  And I know that sounds like a first world problem but guess what? It's still a problem. Also my hair is looking pink in this camera which it's not. Anyways, that's all I have for you guys today. If you enjoyed, give it a like. Leave a comment down below. Subscribe for more videos every week. Turn on my notifications because I might be posting more as I have nothing to do now besides stay at home. And as always, I love you guys and everything is less than three.