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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
Sure! come on down..... I seem to have several neighbors firing up their smokers here today too! -
What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?
Stratoliner Saturday here in East Texas. Looks good with all the sunshine and spring time green around -
Bringing back the dead
A once nice little Miller hats Stetson Imperial Ultimate fedora from Ebay. Evidently endured years of neglect , but cleaned up pretty nicely. Thinking I may do a bit or reblocking so the crowns a bit more upright ( crown has a pretty prominent front to back rake) and work the brim a bit flatter... -
Bringing back the dead
Another $20 ebay find. Ugly Stetson Soverign that at least had no moth damage or tears. Sweatband in decent shape, so it got some Pecards. Liner was really crusty, but did get it cleaned up some. still have some works and a few tweaks, but Its now rejoined the monthly rotations -
Bringing back the dead
Seem like every month or so I find a $15-20 hat thats had a rough life. This ones just a little Royal Stetson, that was crushed, dented, and had paint spots and ink stains. Think I used up a quart of isoprophol and about 100 q tips to work the stains and spots mostly out lol. took out the... -
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Family Hats
A year or so back I was clearing Dads house out up in Knoxville, Tn. and found his western hat crushed in a box with a VCR and a pile of boots on top. I got it cleaned, de-dented, stretched so I could wear it, reblocked, and trimmed over 2" off the brim (it was a monsterousl large 4-3/4" brim)... -
What hat are you waiting for today?
Im currently waiting for a new to me Akubra Metropolitan to to show up in the mail. ( 3 days from Sydney AU to Chicago and out of customs.... been bouncing around the Dallas area processing centers for 4 1/2 days now lol)Its a project hat that was cheap and I thought worth the risk. Does anyone... -
New Member to the Hat Forum
Howdy from Deep East Texas! Finally came out of the shadows here! Started dusting off my felt hats when I retired 4 1/2 yrs back, and rejoined the brimmed hat crowd. Since then I started doing some rehab on some old family hats. One of my Dads old western hats was found in the bottom of a box...
