 Hi, I'm Tech and my channel is Boot Lossophy. Today I'm going to show you an unboxing of my Grant Stone Black Chrome XL Diesel Boots. I'll show you some on-foot footage and then I'll give you a brief initial review of what I see in the boot on the first day. I'll then wear the boots for a few months and I'll come up with a longer term review. So if you like what you see please press the like button that will help me a lot and then subscribe because I've got a lot more of these videos coming. This is my new arrival from Grant Stone which I bought during the Black Friday 2021 sale. 25% off. I'm not sure when I'm going to upload this video but telling you that it's Black Friday 2021 sale kind of dates it but that's fine. I've opened the box. I'm always impressed by the overall breadth and depth of the Grant Stone experience from the website through to ordering through to the delivery and onwards to the customer service. I've opened the end of it. I just wanted to check that I got the right end but I figured out the right end is with the Grant Stone logo pointing up. But the reason why I wanted to show you the right end was if you open it up you'll see that there is the shoe box packed inside the packing box with extra cardboard to make sure it doesn't move around but with a finger hole through which you can remove the shoe box. And as usual the Grant Stone experience carries on with the actual shoe box where the cover sits flush with the side of the boot. It's been built with a little lip. And then inside there's a piece of cloth which I'm told you can use to stand on so that you don't scuff the soles in case you have to return them when you're trying on your boots. Oh I also bought in the Black Friday sale 25% off a Chrome Excel Colourade belt but this being a boot video I'll talk about that some other time particularly if you want to hear about it and leave a few comments behind. The packaging comes with a postcard which tells you about the initial fit and what you want to expect. There's a QR code into a style forum so that you can see people talking about the boots. There's a thank you card signed by I think Parker that might be one of the three people in the warehouse shipping note. The ubiquitous Grant Stone free gift they send you in this little pouch, spare laces in this case black flat waxed cotton laces and the ubiquitous Grant Stone shoe horn. Combination bottle opener to be honest I'm not quite sure what tiny little shoe that you might use that on but it's great. Inside each boot is wrapped in its personal shoe bag and in between each boot is a piece of foam so that they further don't shake and scratch each other. I mean it's amazing packaging. Second boot. So I bought in the sale the black chrome excel diesel boot. You can get the black chrome excel this is on the leather sole. You can get it the black chrome excel on a black day night light Grant Stone sole without the the leather welt, the leather natural welt. First impression as always is I'm so impressed by the quality of the leather. It's super thick it's fully leather lined on the inside let me just check yep the vamp the tongue the shaft fully leather lined brass hardware as I said a natural leather welt. I think that's a split reverse welt so it comes up flanges up the side of the boot for a little extra water resistance. Leather sole. Stitching is excellent really nothing out of place. These will get beaten up eventually. I intend to wear them for a slightly more formal use so they won't get beaten up as much but the stitching is just perfect and as always you can play with Grant Stone the spot the welt joint game because you can't it's fitted so perfectly. It's no overlap. Excellent piece of work. Really quite quite thick feeling. I have this boot in the battle acid tanned veg, saddle tanned veg and that's quite a thick leather. Chrome excel in my experience with say Thursday boots is a much more flexible leather. The olden indies much more flexible leather. I think they seem to have chosen a thicker cut. I might just show you. I don't know if you can see but it's quite a thick cut of leather and then the lining it comes with these leather laces I might swap them around because if I'm going to wear them for semi-formal. I wanted these rather than the all-black rubber sole because I thought the framing of the black leather with that natural leather welt is quite striking. A lot of people ask me whether I they see in my Instagram that I wear leather sole shoes and they ask me you know do I slip or do I like them. I've been wearing leather sole since I was 12 years old so you know including nine years living in London walking around icy pavements. I really don't have a problem. I find them very flexible in this case not so much because they're double leather mid-soles and a leather insole which makes it quite thick. Generally what I find is Grant Stone boots don't need any breaking in except for the sole. It's a good solid sturdy sole so you want to make sure that you're breaking it in where your foot flexes. So I will wear these for a few months and then I'll do a review of them after I've had them for a while. So that's it. Grant Stone's diesel boot in black chrome excel. So this is my on foot vision of the diesel boot in black chrome excel. Initial impressions. Extremely comfortable. As usual with Grant Stone they fit perfectly. I can't see any breaking issues anywhere. The leather sole is fairly stiff. It's a double leather sole outsole midsole and insole so that's the only part that might be breaking in. The chrome excel leather is creasing very nicely. I can't see any loose grain at all and on foot it just feels really good. So for the magic of television I've been wearing these for a day now and having done the unboxing and some on foot footage this is really my initial impressions. I'm gonna wear these for a few months and then do a proper review but what are my initial impressions of these boots? You know Grant Stone is always reliable. Once you found your size which I have mine an 8D which is a half size down from my Brannock. Everything works perfectly. You can be confident that if you're ordering boots on the Leo last which this is in that they will always fit the same. That's not always true of every boot manufacturer because sometimes for the lasting process a particular boot might be narrower or wider or looser or higher in the van. Grant Stone is extremely reliable. As for the materials very impressive. I've scuffed the sole a little bit for the days where mostly on carpet but I had to go out. Solid leather sole the chrome excel you know they get excellent chrome excel from Halloween or the Grant Stone clicking process is phenomenal. There is no loose grain whatsoever. There are some creases starting to appear but that's chrome excel you know they creased differently from the diesel boots in battle-assist saddle tan veg that tends to roll. The chrome excel creases differently from Hawings Dublin leather which I have in Parkhurst boots they do tend to crease and patina quite quickly. You know chrome excel is often said to be a fragile kind of leather because you can scratch it and buff over it and but it will show marks. This thing is phenomenal. It's just really good solid leather thick and the clicking the choice of parts of the hide which they're taking in order to cut the the pattern is phenomenal. It's really excellent. The quality is magnificent. As I said in the unboxing there's not a stitch out of place everything is perfectly aligned. There are no loose threads. What can I say? Initial impressions two thumbs up. So that's the unboxing on foot and initial review of these Grant Stone diesel boots in black chrome excel. If you liked the video I'd love it if you could press the like button below and why don't you subscribe so that when I come up with the longer term review in a couple of months time you can see how they're fared and there are lots of other videos that I intend to put up so subscribe and keep in touch.