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Schwarz Custom Boots Opens School Helps Students Learn How to Make Custom Cowboy Boots in Dillon, Montana

Bob Bugeaud had never worn a pair of custom handmade cowboy boots, let alone made a pair.

Yet there the Canadian leather craftsman was with eight boot orders already in hand.

"There’s more to it than I thought," said Bugeaud, one of four students attending the two-week-long Schwarz Custom Boots class. "It’s a lot of attention to detail."

Detail is what makes Schwarz Custom Boots http://www.schwarzcustomboots.com/stand out from the footwear you’d find at any local Western retailer. At $1,550 for the basic cowboy boot, the small, family-owned business prides itself in the 60 or so pairs of handmade cowboy boots turned out custom each year. When the Schwarz family first started out in the boot-making business about a decade

Written by CHELSI MOY Photographed by MICHAEL GALLACHER of the Missoulian |

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/boot-maker-shares-western-footwear-craft/article_161ff07a-7aac-11e1-912e-001a4bcf887a.html

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