My black Chippewa 27899s just arrived today, really nice for $90 shipped to the UK...
Hey Matt, they were off the 'bay, took a helluva long time to find 'em tho'... seems like the only decent engineer boots available in the UK are very pricey, guess you're finding the same, eh? I mean, a pair of nice Red Wing 2268 boots are around £230, too rich for me, and as to what those RRL boots would be including import charges, I hate to think! :eeek:
A friend of mine at work bought some Chippewa 27911s from here, and was very pleased with the service they provided, but you're still talking about £150-160, more if you get nabbed for import duty and the ever-spurious 'handling charge'...
My advice would be to get to work on the 'bay...
Hadn't seen them Edward, thanks.
Black ones too... http://www.rocketoriginals.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=Engineerboot-Black
The overall profile looks good and they're not out they way price wise.
I personally prefer a more boot like heel on my engineers. Shame too that they ran the welt stitching all the way round the heel.