Best thing I found to darken the heel and the toe to look natural is some wax - paraffin or beeswax or some combo of that - and either a hair dryer or heat gun. Take the wax and rub it on the shoes, trying to keep the right balance between minimal and noticeable, and then heat it up. You can rub it in as it melts. Then, you can just keep repeating that as much as you want. Looks very natural.

I literally bought my first pair of Doc. Martens because of you Magnus. 1460 Aztec Crazy Horse. THANK YOU for this little video!

Just a tip I was born in the Village that DMs were all made in the 1960s70s80s and the ENGLISH made DMs are still made . Just polish your new boots with black polish . We had ox blood DMs at school but the school said only black footwear so we just polished them black. Two weeks later they look like this .

They honestly look so freaking cool!

You're a legend 👊 I have the same pair of docs I got at Marshalls for 10$ a few years ago sitting in a box new . I think I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

Solid! Love it!

The man is an innovative genius!

Awesome.…. I just got two pair of boots. One is black leather cowboy boot and the other a black pair of lace up boot. I'm going to try your technique. I like them to look a little distress. Thank you for posting this, Mel

This was really cool. Please show us more.

I loves my DM's years ago at school starting with 6 then 8 and 10 hole, always black due to school uniforms lol. I wore em till they were knackered but still kept em

Hreat Video I just did Mine they came out FANTASTIC

I drove over mine with a Porsche a few times, it had nearly the same effect :)

I LOVE THIS THIS IS SOOOO U

Lol the Kia guy here from donutsanddrip. I’m up at 4 in the morning looking at how to distress boots and you came right up ⬆️ hell yeah 😂😂🤘

These Boots are made for Walker, and that‘s just what they‘ll do... 😙

I like the outcome the boots look good

i wore my doc's for 2+ years daily. the "natural" distressed process.

@willdobson7316

3 жыл бұрын

Same with my logger boots now they look bad ass and I got my money’s worth at the same time

This is very entertaining.☝️

Your hair and your beard is so sick, I want to look as cool as you do some day

Magnus, I totally love your hair...your style...You are so handsome!!! Sending love and light from Virginia!!!! Ok, so back to the subject. Do you think this will work on suede? I have a pair of Patricia Nash suede boots that are awesome but they will be much more bad ass if I can get them distressed. Any response or tips would be greatly appreciated!

a good trick to add patina is to splash some coffee

Why would you want to fuck up your boots right when you got them. It’s like take shopping carts to a new truck. Just so it looks worn

After you soak them in rubbing alcohol do you have to wait until they dry before you start beating them up or sanding them?

Magnus, could you share the brand of that boots? They look pretty comfortable!!

@rubioalejo

3 жыл бұрын

@Lawit ygm 👍🏻

I have to distress my boots before i wear them because after 2 years my Doc martens and Blundstone are worn to the midsole. i dont get a fully distress boot otherwise

I noticed him beating a statue of St. Francis with his boots to distress them. He is obviously not Catholic.

fake it till you make it

Used to live in a port town. Would age new Daytons by letting then, sit in sea water for 20 or 30 minutes. Then drag them behind a car up and back a gravel lane.

I had DM with the steel toe back in the nineties.

@seaweedeable

3 жыл бұрын

Same. STILL have them!

1:20 bad priest, baaadddddd preist.

Doc Mahdeen

Or you could wear them around until it happens naturally

Can you make a video distressing shiny black boots

Or you know.... Just wear them

what happened to the oil experiment, no follow up. never heard of doc martens boots, but we are two to three years behind you folks on th e left coast here in maine. truley we only got electricity about 5 years ago. i have a cat the uses my boots for a scratching post, does a hell of a job.

@astrozombie989

3 жыл бұрын

You must be joking or live under a rock, we all had Docs in the 80's and early 90's, I grew up in New Hampshire.

@wilsjane

2 жыл бұрын

Before yo had electricity, did your boots get distressed by using them to push wood down into the open fire when the flames were too high to use your bare hands, along with crushing the embers down at the end of the day, or when you were going out. In my younger days, we always wore DM's and rolled our frayed jeans up when we were burning the rubbish, or stomping grass fires out without giving it a second thought.

Fake it till you make it

Cars and Guitars. Magnus..show your guitar gear....

I do it with gloves. Bright new biker gloves not my thing.

just use sand paper and a bit of polish Jobs OXO

One 911 needed an oil change badly

How about you wear them on a construction site while your work it does the same thing

How many boots has that poor statue had bopped on its head cos it's the only place distressed.

Let them age naturally instead of pounding them against the statue. Did u distressed ur Porsche too?

Omg😂

That’s cheating !! Hahahahha I want to do this to my combat boots but I also like that I would have worn them to look like that

distress a vintage 911 mate,ok

Sand paper works better then all this lol

Funny part is that modern Docs are garbage and he's basically just making them even less wearable.

KMSL, So I’m going to dunk my nearly died high boots into a bucket of water smack the hell out of them on some rocks and then spray them again with water and then what

Soot and poo does wonders

yo , mr walker instead of showing us how to hammer boots and make face diapers how about teaching us how to lower a 911 torsion bar suspension to your specs.