9December 2021
three pairs of timberlands cut in half in one
video wrong these are all knock-offs and we're still gonna cut them all in half to see if their
quality rivals timberland and if you can pass off these as a pair of Timbs on the mean streets of
New York for a quarter of the price so this is the first video I've recorded since the release of the
nd ones my first collab boot with Nick and that was crazy I took a week off after because we sold
out in three days the website was crashed for the first hour of the release but it just took a lot
of work building the guillotine and cutting stuff so we took a week off but we're back to full
production we got some really cool stuff coming we got the world war ii boot series coming we're
gonna cut a bar apart the different boots from different countries from world war ii and we just
started the shovelhead Harley rebuild we're gonna we're gonna make a chopper on the channel going
back to the the old school routes of my YouTube channel where we used to rebuild motorcycles the
good old days so if you're not subscribed consider subscribing because that one little click makes
all the difference it's the easiest and most effective way to support the channel so consider
doing it and thanks to Omaze for sponsoring this video so when I cut apart timberlands a little
over a year ago it was one of the very first boots actually cut apart on the channel I want to
revisit them because I feel like I might some of my opinions might have changed but in that comment
section I learned about the intimate relationship between New York city and timberlands apparently
it's a thing but I read this comment and plenty of other ones like it that said if you get caught
wearing the cheap timberlands on the streets of New York you're gonna get hassled you're gonna get
heckled and you're gonna get made fun of and maybe a little roasting going on I don't know if that's
true or not but it's it's funny it's part of the zeitgeist of timberland's um history and their
culture so I thought it was funny and then I saw this comment and the top reply to that
comment said lugs are pretty well built so I thought i would go to TJ Maxx Ross Nordstrom
Rack where you always see the fake or knock off timberlands buy up the best looking ones or the
some that look like they're decent quality cut them in half and see what how they're built
and see if you can pull them off as a pair of timberlands now let's go over the boot information
for each of these contenders starting with the lugs so the brand is lugs the style is the convoy
fleece the color is the golden wheat and bark tan they weigh one pound three ounces they re the
retail price is 75 dollars I got them for a little bit cheaper because it's ross and they're made in
china the next contender is the Beverly hills polo club not to be confused with ralph Lauren even
though the logo looks very similar um these are the six inch boot the color is the wheat nubuck
they're definitely not nubuck so I guess that just means a color now they weigh one pound four
ounces they retail for 59.99 and they're also made in china and the last contender of this
video is the king show this is their six inch basic work boot it comes in wheat nubuck and they
weigh two pounds they retail for fifty dollars the cheapest of all three and they're also made
in china and just for reference here's the information on the premium timberlands the six
inch premium waterproof boot now let's go over the information that we can gather about these
boots starting with the upper so the lugs and the Beverly hill polo club are both a fake nubuck
leather it's pretty clear you can see some cross section it just has that feel of a fake leather
it's almost too fuzzy you know it doesn't have that warmth and that feel of a leather and if
there was one wish that i could have come true today it wouldn't be to solve world hunger the
climate or world peace it would be to completely obliterate all the fake leather in the world
because it's so terrible in every way it doesn't age well it doesn't wear well it doesn't look
great um it's bad for the environment it falls apart fast this is just terrible in every way so
I just hate fake leather and most guys that wear timberlands are part of that sneakerhead culturish
thing where they don't want creases in their boots the problem is with fake leather literally the
first step you take will crease your boots like I'm gonna go like this one decent step worth maybe
a little bit more I see that crease right there that's after one movement of the boot it's just
terrible stay away from fake leather it's no good and both the lugs and the Beverly hills polo clubs
both are fake leather all the way through so that is not a great sign the king show on the other
hand it is a real nubuck leather and it actually feels really similar and it might even be from
the same tannery and it's at least around the same quality as timberlands this king show might
be the dark horse in this race because there's a lot of good things from the outside moving on to
the lining so once again the lugs and the Beverly hills polo clubs are both just a cheap polyester
fabric that's made to look like the water resistant lining and the insulated lining inside
timberlands the king shows on the other hand has a very similar fabric it has that same crunchiness
and that same feel and look as a timberland lining I don't know for sure if it's as good but it's
a lot closer and it seems like it's a lot more durable than this cheap fabric on the inside and
the interesting thing about these Beverly hills polo clubs they didn't even finish the inside you
can see where the foam and the fabric meet just as a raw edge which I thought was kind of shoddily
made but from first impressions once again the king shows might be the the sleeper in this this
series this might be a pretty decent boot next to the construction and how which is basically how
the sole is attached to the boot there's three types of construction out there Goodyear welt
stitched down and and cemented the Goodyear welt and stitched down use stitching to hold the upper
which is this part of the boot onto the outsole which is the lower part of the boot cemented
construction is exactly what it sounds like they use contact cement to hold that upper onto
the outsole and it's the only thing holding it on there's no stitching so for all three of these and
including both the types of timberlands they're all cemented construction but not all contact
cement is created equally as we've seen from the amazon seven dollar boot I was able to tear those
apart just by hand pretty easily so at the end of this video after we get them cut in half I'm going
to take a half and try to rip them apart so we can see generally how tough that cement is and
how well they're built so that brings us to the outsole the thing that's glued onto the upper so
the lugs it has that two-tone look of the premiums but it's not quite right and it feels really soft
and gummy it doesn't have that urethane bounciness that the the premium timberlands have the Beverly
hills polo clubs is really close actually to the the premium tins it has that sanded look on the
side it has that texture and it has the two tones that match pretty close but it feels a lot softer
and it feels a lot more flimsy it doesn't have the heft of the the regular timberland sole next to
the king shell so this is it's the least similar to the premium Timbs but I think it's the best
quality and it has the same pattern as the basic timberlands it doesn't have the same like uh
v100 style outsole as the premiums so we're off to a pretty decent start it's not looking
great for the lugs or the Beverly hills polo clubs but it's looking pretty good for the king
shells I'm pretty impressed with these so far and that brings us to the next step to see what's
really inside these and really be able to see what you're spending your hard earned money
on and if it's worth buying one of these at a fraction of the price to try to pull them off as
timberlands but first let's talk about the sponsor Omaze so what is Omaze it's an online fundraising
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and thanks to Omaze let's get to the cutting buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz all right we got all three cut in half
these might be the easiest boots I've ever cut in half honestly but let's see
what's inside of him starting with the lugs okay we're going out of order because I
had such high hopes for the king shows but they're just so stupid they uh they're not
bad they're just stupid look that is a piece of plywood in the hill and I think it's they might
have just taken the mold or a similar mold to the the basic timberlands and instead of putting
this foam block they thought maybe a piece of wood was better I don't really know and the thing
is it is injection molded into the shoe so while they're making this outsole the the piece of wood
is put in while the mold's still curing which is so strange because that will never compress to
your heel you know a lot of people put these softer materials or leather in the hill because
it slowly compresses to the shape of your heel that will never do that which is so it's so stupid
why like I don't okay maybe it's not stupid maybe there's a good reason behind it but it just seems
like it's one of the worst materials you could put in a hill plywood but doesn't make any sense but
the rest of it's okay it's it's got a fiberboard insole or lasting board and it's got the shank
and it also has compressed cardboard over top both of them are really thin and it's not that
great let's see what happens when i bend the shank okay so it's a spring still shank I had such high
hopes for this but it's just not great maybe the biggest issue is that if you look really closely
at this sole it wasn't cured correctly or wasn't mixed correctly because it's really lumpy and
there's a lot of places in this sole that has weak spots that are already starting to split it's only
a matter of time until one of those little flaws and chunks that has a split in it slowly splits
all the way through the outsole and your outsole shot before you even get close to wearing to
the point where you're going to see that wood so maybe it is a blessing in disguise but then even
more disappointing if we move to the lugs these are giant voids in the hill and a lot of times
you're going to want to see some voids in the hill especially with a harder rubber because it
gives you a little bit of compression and it makes a little bit more comfortable reduces the weight
but this is strictly the amount of voids in here are strictly for price cutting you know with less
rubber in the sole the cheaper it is to make those and also the softer it is initially but over time
the more that you step on this shoe the more that these voids are going to fail and these little
columns supporting the voids fail and you end up with a really sloppy saggy boot let's see what
how that shank does when it comes to a bend test not great so this shank is not spring still
this yeah it's just bad really really bad and unfortunately the I can never remember the
name of this boot it's so long the Beverly hills polo club boot is even worse because it has less
materials and it has an even softer steel shank oh I almost cut my hand that was scary that's
the first time I ever like nearly cut my hand on this channel and it wasn't from a knife but
yeah it's it's it's such still such thin steel like look how thin it is I don't I'm like
it almost feels like tin foil it's so easy to bend okay not really but it's really
easy to bend a kid could bend this metal and it has less layers it has less quality
materials just as big a voids it's it's just as bad as that seven dollar amazon shoe now let's get
to my favorite part I'm gonna try to rip the soles off of these to test how well they're cemented
together starting with we gotta go in order starting with lugs let's see what happens oh this
is gonna be easy one easy peasy that will last a couple weeks tops terrible construction there's
not even glue on the inside it's only glued on the rim of this sole not great next is the Beverly
hills polo club maybe better let's find out this one is a little bit tighter let's try from the back oh this one is cemented very well but I
think it's still good I just have to stand up oh there it goes once it started to go it really went so
better than the lugs but still would not last as long as you'd hope and that partial
a big part of the reason why this one was cemented better was because you see all
the cement all the way through the sole instead of just at the rim see the difference
there next to what was once the dark horse of this race the king shows I have a feeling
I'm not gonna be able to rip this one because I can tell it's cemented all the way
through but there's only one way to find out oh no king show you let me down again dang it I can probably even
get this piece of wood out yeah see another part of the reason why this one
came apart no glue through the inside of the sole it was just injection molded and then glued
on the rim but you can see now that that wood was actually injection molded or part of the
injection molding process this wasn't put in after because you can see the little grain that is so
weird so what's the final verdict lugs terrible in every conceivable way this is a seven dollar boot
that costs 75 dollars whatever it was and it's really not that close to timberland once you get
close to it and I don't think you could pass it off as a pair of Timbs on the mean streets of New
York city next Beverly hills polo club even worse than the lugs except for the cementing of the
soul and even that wasn't that much better stay away from it as much as possible and
these might pass as timberlands from 50 feet away if they don't see the creases in
your toe box from wearing them a few steps but for a quarter of the price I would say
they're less than a quarter of the value of a pair of timberlands stay away finally to the biggest
heartbreak of this episode or video the king shows I had so much high hopes for them um I would still
say they're the best out of the three if I had to wear one pair of the three I would choose the king
shells because it is real leather and the outsole is a nice thick rubber it's not the best rubber
and it's not well cured and it's not well mixed and you'd also have the giant block of wood in
your heel but it is the best of the three but I still would not buy these boots you're better off
trying to find a used pair of timberlands or a discounted pair um but worst case scenario for 50
bucks it's really not too bad but I would still stay away and also they won't really pass as a
pair of premium tams because you've got the single color outsole if anything people will mistakenly
think you're wearing a pair of the cheap Timbs which will also get you roasted on the streets
of New York I don't even know if that's true it's just it just it keeps happening in my comment
section so this whole premise of this video is based on no real world experience with New York
um what that stride wise about this maybe I'll get his take on this and put in the comment section
so let me know what you guys think uh have you owned a pair of lugs because I've known a lot of
guys that owned lugs and I had no idea that they were this terrible quality maybe they have some
better boots out there I don't know but uh thank you guys so much for what you do and consider
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subscribed to anyway so what's it gonna hurt and uh we got some cool videos coming up
from now until February we have so much fun stuff planned we got the bike build we got
the Mocktober coming up we've got the world war 2 boot series there's just so much fun stuff so
thank you guys for making this channel possible and shout out to everyone who bought a pair of the
ND-1s that was really fun to do and uh yeah thank you guys and thanks again to Omaze for sponsoring
this video and we'll see you next video see ya
