 G'day and welcome to Bootlossophy. If you haven't been here before, my name is Tech. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands that I live and work on here in Perth in Western Australia, the widget people. Now, this is a box from, obviously, Thursday Boots, although today is Tuesday as I'm filming. It took about two weeks to come to me, so that's actually pretty good and maybe post-COVID things are coming back to normal, coming from the US. This is a pair of Thursday's new wishboot called the Hero, and it actually went first coming on the website was called the Titan, so I assumed there was some sort of name copyright dispute and they had to change the name of it. But it comes in the usual Thursday black box, so let's get it open. So let's get it out of the cardboard shipping box and take a look at what's inside. There's the usual shipping notice. Right. I've got it facing you, so it looks good, but this might be a bit awkward for me. We shall see. Thursday's black tissue paper, which is always excellent. Thursday don't provide boot bags, but they come protected in plastic bags. Let's get this one out and inside the boot they also include some paper stiffeners so that the boots don't get crushed on their way to you. The smell is really nice when you open the box. Lovely leather smell. Now these, as I said, are the hero boots from Thursday, reasonably new addition to the lineup. I'll just get rid of the box. This version is in their waxed cacao leather, cacao cocoa, with a honey lug sole and this is Thursday's proprietary commando sole. Let's take one boot at a time. The uppers, being this waxed cacao, is actually a rough out and you can actually see it's a sort of smooth leather on the inside. That's not lining. That's the grain side of the leather. The outside is a rough out that has a very heavy wax application on it in a dark brown and I expect that as that wax wears off and patinas, you're going to start seeing this color start to come through. First impressions of the wax cacao or wax flesh is that the wax application is really thick and actually feels smooth and if you don't look at it carefully enough, you'd think this was probably top grain, full grain, on top, but it is rough out. You can actually see a crinkly effect in the light and which will gradually wear down and patina. It's good you voted. There is a storm welt in place. I'm assuming that's leather because it does look like leather and then the leather midsole and then the rubber commando lugged sole. The stitching of this boot as I look at it is pretty good. The stitch density is as good as you would expect from a boot in this sort of price range. Nothing wrong with it that I can see whatsoever. There are no sort of frayed ends sticking out and the stitch density and the positioning of the stitching is very consistent and clean. Absolutely quite clean. Slightly contrasting in the lighter brown against the dark brown. There is a pull loop made of textile and the laces are nylon, tasselon laces. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight nickel plated eyelets, no speed hooks. I'm not bothered whether there are speed hooks or not, you know, if it takes you an extra four seconds, it takes you an extra four seconds. Very clean. Other boot just as clean. As you can see the uppers sort of quite match. There isn't sort of a crinkly one here and a clean one there. So the clicking on this is reasonably good. Again the stitching, very clean, very consistent. No problems at all. I've noticed that the tongue is un-gusseted. Which for me sometimes is a problem particularly in my right foot where the tongue can slip to one side. So I may get out a chisel and punch a couple of slits through to put the laces through. All right, so let's get these on feet and then we'll talk about what I think of them. Okay, so I'll just get them on feet. The pull tab is actually very useful. I'm wearing thick socks today and with them it actually feels very very nicely lasted as I put them in. It's a little snug, but you'd expect that with a new pair of boots with the leather being cold. The laces are quite nice and really easy to to cinch up. Laces are quite long. I'd normally do a double knot, but not for now. I'm noticing as I'm cinching up the laces that the eyelets are nicely back so you don't have an abrasive surface at the back. It feels quite good on foot. As I say it is a bit snug. I have been used to slightly wider laces recently, so returning to dressier lasted Thursday boots is a little different. This is a size 8. I took the usual half down from my Brannock size and it works quite well. It feels fine. The soles are stiff because I think there's a leather midsole and then there's the cork and poron insole and the welt makes it all quite stiff. I imagine as I wear these, I'm not sure breaking is required, but as I wear these I think things will loosen up. It feels good. Okay, let's wrap up. There you go on feet. The last, I don't know the name of this last, but it's certainly a lot more rounded in the toe box than the original captain last, which I quite like, but I do find could be quite snug to start with at the ball. As I said in the try-on these fit quite well, feel quite comfortable. The midsole, welt and the rubber sole do make these fairly stiff in the sole construction. I think there will be a little bit of break-in and I will feel a little heel slip in the initial break-in period, but hopefully that's not going to take too long and it will get accustomed to where I flex my foot and it will flex in the right places. My first impressions, my initial impressions, I think this is a really well built boot. I honestly can't see anything wrong with it. It's good, you're welted, so that's the value for you. It has that well-known Thursday foam and poron insole, midsole sort of combination, which I don't mind. It's an instant comfort underfoot and you don't feel like you have to struggle with your boot for the first couple of weeks before it really starts to feel comfortable. In the long run, yeah, maybe it might break down, but in the long run, how long is that? In terms of the materials used, I'm very impressed by this waxed flesh. I think it's going to patina really well. It certainly feels like it's going to wear well. It's comfortable around my foot, it's not hard or harsh at all. It feels really well finished, so I'm really impressed, particularly at this price range. So I'll be very pleased to keep wearing these, break these in, and then bring them back to you in a few months' time to see what I think of them. The difficulty when I keep saying I'll bring them back to you in a few months' time is that with my huge rotation of boots, I just don't know how many times I'd have worn these, but I'd be interested to keep count, so we'll have a look. So that's it. In summary, I think fantastic for what you pay for. Everything looks well put together. If there's any con, it may be that maybe it's a little light in the sense that it's not a real work boot, it's obviously not a real Pacific Northwest work boot that you can use and abuse and will get better with time. However, for casual wear and even light work wear, I think this is going to be perfectly fine. You'll find this hard to beat at this price range for this set of materials and this construction quality. So there you go. 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