Good eye Cygnus. When I put the shoe on and tightened the laces, the buckle did indeed come up too high on my foot. It didn't look very good with hose being exposed below the edge of the buckle. I untied one of the loops from behind the buckle's crossbar and now it is sitting right where I was intending for it to be.
The guideline for buckle placement I'm using is the image from an old Highland attire catalog that I posted earlier. Note that it appears to sit a bit higher on the ghillie brogue than it does on a "Mary Jane" style bar and buckle brogue:
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Any comments are welcome and this is still a work in progress. For the sake of a picture, I just stuffed the spare leather into the buckle but have not yet glued it. FYI my lass has already chastised me for not having a good enough shine on the shoes yet
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