How tall should the shaft on the boots be?

[BH-0938]

I am looking at getting a pair of CA Boots, but it has a 16" shaft. That seems a bit high. Can anyone give some guidance on this?

[4505Marcel]

16" is reguarded as high your right, but not if your 6'5"

 

It all comes down to looks and scale, I usually say you need a gap of around 20mm between the top of the boot and bottom of the knee armour for the look to be right. Boots will always sag a bit as they wear in, but thats just the nature of the beast

[Dart]

To echo what Marcel said, you want the boots to be just below your knee armour. That's all dependent on your height. That's one of the inherent flaws of the CA boots.

[BH-0938]

I guess I could order them and then have them taken down by a Cobbler once I try them on with my armor.

[BH-0938]

Would these work?

 

Timberland 8"

 

or these?

 

Timberland 6"

[Dart]

Either of those would work. Have you tried hitting your local walmart or payless? You can get similar boots for much less.

[BH-0938]

Either of those would work. Have you tried hitting your local walmart or payless? You can get similar boots for much less.

Not yet, but I have a long weekend to look.

[Chex]

Just go to Target bro. That's where I got my boots to send to Witness, and it's where he gets his when he makes boots. $25 tops.

[BH-0938]

I ended up going to Bob Store's and getting a pair of $50.00 for 25% off. I will post pictures when I find my camera.

 

Thanks for the advice. I am sure I will need more.

[mxpxrobbie]

I'm 6'3". Making my boots now... the tutorial says make the shaft 14 inches... that was also for a size 10. Should I make mine higher? I am still waiting on my armor so I can't measure distance between knee armor and top of boots.

[Boba Leo]

I'm 6'3". Making my boots now... the tutorial says make the shaft 14 inches... that was also for a size 10. Should I make mine higher? I am still waiting on my armor so I can't measure distance between knee armor and top of boots.

 

As Marcel said, It all comes down to looks and scale!!!!!!!

 

Leo

[Flero]

Im 6'3" as well and also working on my boots.

I added an extra two inches to the shaft part in height. When i have my knee pieces to wear with it i will trim it down and sew the top

to what looks right.

[Chef]

Flero's idea is a good one. You can always take stuff off, but you can't put it back in!

 

I generally work on the height being about 3/4 of the height of your calf.

 

Sit with your thigh parallel to the floor, measure the distance from the floor to the back of your leg.

If that's 18" (as it is in my case), then your boot wants to be about 13-14" high when finished. 3/4 of 18" being 13.5"

 

The boot material has a 1" fold over at the top, so this needs to be added on.

 

So the height of the template for the material will be approx 14-15".

 

Obviously, you'll need to adjust these measurements to suit yourself.

Hope this helps.

[TB-7076]

Your personal Jackboot height I'd say:

 

 

Keep in mind that with time the leather or vinyl will tend to wrinkel a lot and thus result in lower shaft height.

I myself had my boot legs made to lower knee height so now 3 years later they're on a comparable height as on screen.

 

these are pictures of my bots when they were fairly new:

 

last year: