I normally wear a size 13, but ordered one size down as is suggested and though the initial fit was slightly snug, it was not uncomfortable, and there was plenty of room in the toe box to wiggle my toes. Not quite enough room for an insole, I discovered, but thicker socks do just fine for added comfort. After a few days of breaking them in over 20 miles, I can almost forget I'm wearing them, except for the reminder of some bruising on one of my big toes where the upper toe box crease hasn't formed yet. Almost there.

I have only two minor issues with these boots: The first is that they arrived out of the box with a large smear of shoe glue stuck to the leather which I had to spend about 10 minutes trying to scrape off without damaging it. And two, the length of the boot tongues don't match; the right boot tongue is almost a whole inch longer than the left. For many people this manufacturing defect would be enough to warrant a return, but since I almost always wear my jeans over my boots, I think I can live with the goofy asymmetry. I understand that these are hand-made in the USA, and that human variances are to be expected, but for $300 you would at least expect the leather to be cut from the same templates and thus the tongue lengths to be nearly equal.