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  1. majormoore

    Whats With All These X's???

    Hat X's I tell my customers , I get three gardes of bodies, one is a 100%, one is a 50/50 mix and the last one is a staple body (10% with a 90% mix). No X's stamped in the hat unless the customer wants it in the 100% only. Mike
  2. majormoore

    Ribbon for a hat

    Ribbon for hat band/bow and ribbon for bound edge I'll sale you a what you need to make the bow/ribbon for your hat band and what you need for a bound edge. The hat band ribbon is 12 linge and the bound edge is 6 linge. Contact me at buckaroohatters@gmail.com Mike
  3. majormoore

    Now that the auction's over, I get to finally ask:

    This hat is made by Clearwater Hat Co. Mike Moore
  4. majormoore

    Do they all need a satin lining?

    Contact me and I'll mail you a new liner, do you what Blk or White, I am on business in Birmingham, this week, but will be home Friday night. You can e-mail me at buckaroohatters@ gmail.com Roger, thanks for posting, BTW just blocked two nice looking Fedora's , I call them the...
  5. majormoore

    Preventing Sweat Stains?

    Go to a hobby/craft store, buy a small piece of thin cork, cut what you need and place inside the sweatband, may be a little tight , but it will work. Just get the thinnest sheet of cork you can. Mike
  7. majormoore

    Oddest thing you've found under a hat's sweatband, vintage or new.

    I have seen pages from the bible inside sweatbands, the old man who the hat belonged to told me when I asked him about that, said " Son its best to always have the lords words close to you, and there is not a better place to have them as close to your brain as you can get, and this here...
  8. majormoore

    Some hats Rodney made many years ago

    Art, I begged him to share this with me, he said he could not even start to tell me how to do this. It does look good in his hats, just lays in there so nice and flat. Mike
  9. majormoore

    Cattlemans crease

    I wear a cattlemans crease hat, 4 5/8 open crown when hat was blocked and a 4" brim, and some with a 4 1/4" brim. Mike
  10. majormoore

    Some hats Rodney made many years ago

    Also that sweatband is the so soft, Mike
  11. majormoore

    Some hats Rodney made many years ago

    Here are some Fedora's "Rodney" ( North Valley Hat Co.) made several years ago, also take a look at the way he sews the sweat together, I have never seen one done this good. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i228/majormoore/BrownFedora.jpg...
  13. majormoore

    vintage hats

    Rodney, you must be right, seems that is the only size blocks showing up for sale these last few months, are all small 6 3/4 or 6 7/8". On a side note, anyone wanting a nice new , custom made hat, you should contact Rodney, he is a real craftsman when it comes to making a hat. He will work...
  14. majormoore

    Hat too small

    If you have a hatters rule, you can pretty much tell what the size of the hat is when you measure the outside of a hat. I use mine all the time , just to recheck the hat I blocked, not saying it's 100% and this is the way you should do it, but it does help understand what size the hat really...
  15. majormoore

    Beaver prices

    I can tell you while at Winchester, I picked up a handfull of beaver hair, what I could hold in one hand and was told that was $100.00 worth of beaver. Mike
  16. majormoore

    Beaver prices

    Yes, right before Christmas, I was at Winchester Hat Co. and was told that the price is moving up. Was not told when or if the blanks would go up. Mike
  17. majormoore

    watch out for hatsupply.com

    I would like too, but saw a few weeks ago that the owner of the site here, came down hard on a few hatters for maybe doing that. Don't want to get in trouble around here. Mike
  19. majormoore

    watch out for hatsupply.com

    Ashley, I agree 100% on the phone thing, I always state my name when calling and when I answer the phone, that way you know who you are talking to and who you may have called. I learned this back in grade school back in the early 60's, just like counting money back to someone, it's just good...
  20. majormoore

    watch out for hatsupply.com

    I made the mistake, and I made good that the hat would be ready before Christmas. And I was proud of myself also of keeping my word. Mike
  21. majormoore

    watch out for hatsupply.com

    The month before Christmas I took a order for a hat from a customer(lady) on the phone, she told me she wanted this style hat I build and so on, I said it would be ready a few days before Christmas. All along this time frame until the 23rd of Dec, I kept getting a call from (lady) who I thought...
  22. majormoore

    How to make a pencil roll by hand

    I have several hats I have tried making a pencil curl on and they just were not as good as I wanted them to be, I believe trying to master this task is one of the hardest, the irons have to be very hot and on light colored hats you better use a cloth between the hat and curling iron, or you will...
  23. majormoore

    How to make a pencil roll by hand

    You will get a some what curl that way, I use my hatter irons a shackle curl or pencil curl to make my pencil curls on brims. You have to have the irons HOT, when you place them on the semi wet brim it needs to sound like bacon frying. You have to work a few inches at a time. Trust me it's...

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