Starting this fall, Republic Boot Co. is offering a package deal where customers can go on a guided alligator hunt, and then have the hide from their gator turned into a pair of handmade cowboy boots.

The vast majority of boots range from $420 to $1300, about the same as top mass produced brands command, and a fraction of what custom made boots made with the same quality leathers and process cost.

A Texas tradition: Cowboy bootmaker 04:55. A bit of advice for anyone who hopes to be stepping out in custom-made cowboy boots like David Wheeler’s: Time is running out.

CRAFTSMANSHIP: These handmade Houston cowboy boots are old-school, tailored to each person and can go for $6,000 "If you get a big, gnarly gator out of Louisiana or Florida, they're hard to make ...

Design a unique pair of alligator-leather boots in your own personal colorway Three nights in the Lucchese Suite at the Hotel Drover, an Autograph Collection Hotel in Fort Worth Bonus gifts to ...

Houston’s Tejas Custom Boots has a showroom, ... Houston shop specializes in custom cowboy boots by: Calily Bien. Posted: Feb 2, ... The skins can vary from alligator to shark to ostrich.

Alligator, dark brown (which, the Lush assured him, ... Handmade cowboy boots are an exercise in precision. Mess them up an eighth of an inch, and they won’t fit.