I had a pair of these last year that were very nice, but I lost 'em. So I ordered a replacement pair, and they're nowhere near as good.

This is a classic case of the manufacturer switching to inferior materials. What used to be a decent leather is now a cheap, latex-thin crap coated in a peeling black paint that hardly qualifies as leather dye. Weak stitching, mine fell apart in under a week.

Only decent part is the padding and the palms.