A Boot Collector Feature
A former bull rider who moved from designing chaps to building boots, now known in Fort Worth for a trademark lightning bolt.
Carman Allen's path into bootmaking ran through the rodeo arena: a former bull rider, he moved into designing chaps before turning his focus to boots full time, working out of Fort Worth, Texas. A Texas Monthly feature on the state's top custom bootmakers called out his detailed tooling and a trademark lightning bolt design, with pairs at the time starting around $650 and an eight-to-ten month turnaround.
Detailed hand tooling and a signature lightning-bolt motif, with a client base drawn largely from the cutting-horse crowd.
A former bull rider's eye for detail, carried into leather.
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