A bootmaker shaping leather by hand

Custom boots · from $2,000

One customer, one bootmaker, one pair.

Your measurements, your leather, your design. Built by hand in Nogales in two to three months.

Request a consultationHow it works
Price
$2,000–$7,500+
Built
2–3 months
Starts with
A personal consultation
Made
By hand, Nogales, Arizona

Custom

You’ve been thinking about these boots for a while. The leather, the toe, the heel, the way they’ll look ten years from now.

How it works

Four conversations, one pair of boots

Every step is with a person, not a form.

A bootmaker stitching a boot shaft

Step 1

Consultation

A call or a visit to talk through what you want: the occasion, the look, how you’ll wear them.

Wooden lasts marked with a customer's name

Step 2

Measurements

Taken in the store or from our measuring form, so your last is fitted to your feet.

Shelves of exotic and calfskin hides

Step 3

Leather & design

Choose skins, toe, heel, stitch pattern and inlays with a bootmaker, from the archive or from scratch.

A bootmaker's hands finishing a boot

Step 4

Built by hand

Cut, stitched, inlaid, lasted and pegged in Nogales.

Where it happens

The barn in Nogales.

A bootmaker carving a wooden last
The Paul Bond store and workshop
The store and workshop, Nogales, Arizona.
Black stitched cowboy boots
Rows of finished cowboy boots

Start here

Request a consultation.

A bootmaker will call you within two business days. Prefer to talk now? Call (520) 281-0512.

Paul Bond riding a bucking bronc at a rodeo, vintage photograph

“You can tell a lot about a person from the boots they are wearing.”