Making Fruit boots for hard mixed climbing?

Now is a good time to put some thought into Fruit boots if it is something that interests you for next winter's mixed season.

I'll have a review on the newest Boreal Ice Mutant model later on as fall approaches and the temps drop. 

But nothing like thinking ahead.   The fun I was having in my home made pair is why I searched out a commercial pair.  One caution?  You'll want your boot crampon combo to come in at around 2# total per foot to really take advantage of a lwt technical combo.  BD raptors come in at 10oz per foot.  That leaves you with 22oz per boot before you bolt the crampon on.  More than one climber is just using the front half of the crampon so that can drop some weight as well.

http://bigfootmountainguides.com/2010/03/03/how-to-make-mixed-climbing-boots/

http://climbs2high.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-project-fruit-boots.html

http://rockandice.com/articles/how-to-climb/article/359-make-fruit-boots-do-it-yourself-crampons