Recent content by SR James

You may very well be right sine you had one while I’ve only seen online pics. And we know how variable they can be.

rclark, I used mostly "Scout" stiffener made by M&F but because the hat was so floppy when I got it, I also made some of my own using Zissner's Bulls Eye shellac diluted with denatured alcohol toward the end of my messing with it. It seemed to work a little better than the M&F. I was just...

The hat, not me. A few weeks ago, a seller on ebay made me an offer I couldn’t refuse on a Stetson Open Road in Royal Deluxe felt. Here in Oklahoma, Open Roads are easy to find in 6X (I already have a black and a tawny) but I had yet to encounter a Royal Deluxe sample in the flesh, er, felt...

Hello all. I have been a member for a while now but this is my first post. I live in central Oklahoma where western hats are the norm and I have a number of them. But over the past few years I’ve found myself drawn more to smaller lids like fedoras rather than the big buckaroo hats I favored...