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  1. majormoore

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    The curling machines are unreal, I have three of them, and a bucket full of curling heads of differant size curls, will have them sand blasted and polished there is one that is the biggest curl I have ever seen in that bucket. Ribbon, and ribbon and ribbon, there are 100's of rolls of 4 line 6...
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    BUCKAROO BONANZA! - The Hats that Major Mike Moore Makes

    You can come by any time you need too, your just a few milesaway, when you come bring the diet cokes!!!!! Major Moore
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    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    The western hats 20X and better are nice, the dress hats need to be of rabbit fur or beaver fur, there were some really nice dress hats that were sold, and a ton of low in wool hats also. I felt of some really nice dress velor finish hats and some outstanding western 20X hats while there Mike Moore
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    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    I will have some ribbon for sale it will be about 3 to 4 weeks before I have it sorted out. All kinds of equipment was sold there, I got two finger blocking machine, two air operated vent design stamp machines, a table top brim cutter machine from 1" to a 6" by making the adjustments as needed...
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    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    Been, working on just the 2 ply, 3 ply and 6 ply ribbon today, that was taken off my truck, still have a trailer full. There is so many unreal colors in the 3 and 6 ply ribbon, that are tagged with labels from National Hatters Supply, trying to just start sorting out, still have 40 boxes in the...
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    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    there was about 12 wooden flanges, they had no need for any all hats that had to be flanged were done on the alum flanges on the 25 flange machines that were in the plant. Mike
  8. majormoore

    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    There is a a ton of vintage ribbon and some really nice older modern ribbon Mike
  9. majormoore

    Joe Peters

    When Joe called me Friday night last week he had been in the VA for two weeks, he informed me that in a few days when his health gets a little better, he will under go a heart transplant. He told me he would call me when he knows when that will take place, once I hear from him, l will post it...
  10. majormoore

    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    They were selling those in the back while I was in the front bidding on all the ribbon, they had two auctions going at the same time all day, made it tough a little to be in two places at the same time, so Rusty would be at one and me and the other, he had the green light to bid $$$$ on items I...
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    I was like a new father worried I would not get the one I really wanted, but I did and got another one hid in a huge junk pile and it was wrapped up in plastic and just sitting there behind all that stuff that no one climbed into to look, plus I had a flashlite to see better with at all those...
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    Beaver Brand Hats Final Auction

    Plus the trailer has boxes of ribbon and also two 55 gallon plastic cans full of ribbon. Today when I unloaded the truck, started looking in a few boxes some what, and there is all kinds of colors of ribbon and widths, It was hot as you know what up there this past weekend. But it was all worth...
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    There were several high end nice western hats left in the factory that got sold for pennys on the retail price they were sold last year for. I was blown away of some of the people I saw and companies that had used Beaver Brand to make hats for them there over the years. Rusty was a trooper the...
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    Yes I was there in Feb of this year and bought several hat equipment items as did Winchester Hats to us in the plant that they have. There was a 100s of hat equipment still left for the sale this past Sat. I could not be more happy than I am right now. Major Moore
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    Just rolled back into home, it was a wonderful trip for me, I got two finger blockers, if and when you find one for sale with the brass rings, they start around $10,000.00 . I did not pay that for mine, but if I were to sale one, that is what it would take. Picked up a moter driven table top...
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    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Art is your machine a Wilcox and Gibbs, I have two of those, same machine that Winchester has 100's of that they use to make the straw hat body. They sound like bees back there when they are sewing so fast on those machines. Major Moore
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    Cowboy hats losing their cool?

    I have for several years been seeing this in the singers of Country music, also when they are winning arwards at major events they dress like they are playing volley ball on the beach. I pretty much do not listen to counrty music, when I do its the older stuff , what I do like is western, at...
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    BUCKAROO BONANZA! - The Hats that Major Mike Moore Makes

    As Jeff stated, I was over run with orders when his came in, he told me to put him on the back burner and fill those others as needed. When I had his hat done the stroms had hit OK. and as I was watching all the damage and heart aches so many were going thru, I felt very lucky to have what I...
  21. majormoore

    Open Crown Stetsons: A Call (Plea) to Retailers!!

    Looking at the photo, is this a new hat ( sample they sent to the person in Nashville)? or is this a older hat ? Major Moore
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    Open Crown Stetsons: A Call (Plea) to Retailers!!

    To also be fair to Hatco, it was hard for them to oversea the many differences that we were asking for in the hat run. There was a lot of people on the FL that wanted the hat, they offered to send me the ribbon used for the hatbands if I wanted to sew them onto the hats, that way the ribbon...
  23. majormoore

    Open Crown Stetsons: A Call (Plea) to Retailers!!

    The main and biggest problem was Hatco could not over see that the hats all of them ordered would be as we asked, they stated to us and even in the samples they sent a few of us to look at that there was issues that we has hat people did not and would not take. I say your best bet is allow a...

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