Customs made on Nike brand shoes.
Dannys Custom Shoes based out of Illinois recently finished these Custom Nike Sweet Classics using a Freddy Krueger theme with the Nightmare On Elm Street character’s signature burnt skin, red striped sweater, and bloody silver razors. Danny also put the horror movie star’s ugly mug on side to halt any confusion of this custom Nike Sweet Classics theme.
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This custom by Sharp020 from December definitely put the stamp on 2009 as the year of the “decon-recon” custom shoe. Florida based shoe customizer Sharp020 has created a few pairs like this now, based on the original concept he released with unofficial Nike SB fan site: NikeSkateBoarding.org. Unlike kelly green he used before he used a mint green to go with the black and silver. These look to be some of the best of the NSB.org theme: a Nike Dunk with 3m reflective Schotchlite on the toe and lace panels, black patent leather swooshes, sun burst mid panels, black suede, and mint green accents: splattered midsole and quilted liner. Topped off with the clean Sharp020 heel tabs and tongue tags.
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Lifestyle product blog DailyDrop.com just released photos of their custom shoe collaboration with Minnesota based customizer JGoods. The product is a high top Nike Flight light with orange and lime green accents to play on the Daily Drop slogan “fresh squeezed daily”. You can even have the chance to win this exact pair by being part of the DailyDrop mailing list.
More info on how to win: HERE
Happy customers equals happy business. Sneaker customizer Falsequest is relatively new to the posting custom shoe work online scene but obviously not new to actually making customs. He has a mystique about him. We are pretty sure the person behind Falsequest is a male but his general location is unknown. This mystique is somewhat of a throwback to early 2000’s in the online custom shoe world where customizers really did not share details such as where they are from or personal photos. It was hard to put a face or personality behind one’s custom work, but of course that changed with the emergence of the whole social media explosion in MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and personal blogs. Falsequest has let his work do all the talking so far. Now even one of Falsequest’s customers was so happy he gave an extremely detailed explanation of the entire project. You can read it yourself HERE, but its clear Falsequest is doing at least few things correct.
The design of the custom Nike Blazer Hi is similar to one of Falsequest’s previous designs of a custom Nike Blazer low. Made with the same “decon-recon” process as all of Falsquests customs we have seen so far. This time using light gray leather with the custom quilted stitching for the majority of the upper. The customer has an affection for the “Life and Debt” track by Seattle, Washington based MC duo Blue Scholars so the back heel tabs say “Life” and “Debt” in a detailed cutout lettering over black snakeskin that accents the maroon outline black snakeskin Swooshes. Oh, do I really even have to mention the laser engraved tongue tags and custom tagged black knapsack? Falsequest is slowly becoming a “mantra” for high quality custom shoes.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin based shoe customizer Chris Hui better known as C2 Customs completed his first ever custom Nike Air Force 1 high for CounterKicks.com. The result is what happens when two entities near the top of their respective fields come together: C2 being custom sneakers and CounterKicks being sneaker information blog. PaintOrThread has been following the relatively young CounterKicks.com since they started last fall and we’ve be nothing but impressed by some of the interviews and detailed articles they have about all the different materials shoes are made of. They’ve even started a partnership with SLAM Magazine.
C2 decided to take a “stealth” like approach to play on the “counter-intelligence” theme of CounterKicks.com. The end result is a high contrast half white half black shoe with great attention to detail. Black carbon fiber was used to create new Swooshes and compliment C2’s use of woodland camoflague in a dark, stealth black and gray sequence. To stay true to classic C2 designs he added a super bright yellow around the tongue, Nike Air heel tab, and the CounterKicks text and signature “Suitman” logo on the tongues. Loving the black and yellow, toss in some royal blue and these are golden.
Iowa based shoe customizer Chrisco-CC recently finished Volume 2 of his Marvel Mashup custom shoe series: The Incredible Hulk Nike Dunk low. Chrisco-CC used the “decon-recon” process to take an all white Nike Dunk upper and replace the all white sole a grey earthquake crackle midsole from another pair of Nike Dunks. The Incredible Hulks signature ripped pants, skin and hair are represented by the purple denim panels, bright green midpanels, and the dark green Swooshes. Topped off with an embroidered Marvel Comics tongue tag and HULK on the back heels. These are what the original denim Nike Dunks nicknamed the “Hulk” should have looked like.
