Yeah, not my first time either but after a few of these I started wondering what I might be doing wrong. I guess one thing would be, don't let those shiny gold letters fool ya haha
Thanks for your excellent and quick replies deadlyhandsome!
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Oh and I should probably add that the hat was not a teardrop when I first got it, I shaped it that way after washing/conditioning the sweat band. I wonder how much of an effect the steam and handling of the hat may have had on the outcome of the sweatband...
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I bought this 50's Stetson on ebay. The sweatband looked good when I bought it but was a little dirty so I washed it with saddle soap and put some Picard's Leather Dressing on it. After that, the sweat showed vivid gold stamping and looked great. I flipped the band over and one small area...
I've decided to research my vintage hat collection. So far, I've found some were owned by a wetback, a chinky, a jew, and a coon, but luckily, I haven't come across any racists
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Yeah, this one has an Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union tag, with the liner, I'm guessing 80's? The factory cattlemans crease was pretty stiff but after a lot of steam I made a wider shallower bullriders crease kind of thing out of it, which I really like. It's not all that vintage...
I copped this sweet 7-1/4 silverbelly 4X beaver Stetson OR on ebay a few months back for $62 + shipping, they're out there folks!
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Touche' Frunobulax! Yes, but...
It's not a question of how he grips it, it's a simple matter of weight ratios....
Your typical American beaver is 30 inches long and weighs over 900 ounces...
50 beavers is a lot of beavers to be involved in the making of one 5 oz. hat :p
Thanks again dh, I downloaded the Tapatalk ap today, up to this point I've pretty much kept my forum activity restricted to after work when I'm home on my laptop, now the ap makes hanging out in the lounge a little too easy, productivity is slipping.... haha
I don't get why anyone would pay a premium for "distressed" based on aesthetic alone. It's kind of a pet peve of mine, but I will spare u guys the rant. Having said that, I would pay a premium for something to be "broken in" if it improves the comfort or function. That makes better sense to me...
Yes! The missing pictures definitely hurt the forum user's experience, do you know if we have arrived on a preferred way to post pictures that will last? If there is a definitive answer on that, maybe you could please point me in the right direction?
Yes it does! Wow, what a collection you have! I'm guessing I'll probably never maintain as big a collection of western boots and hats as you two, but I can see how it could happen! I like the rustic horseshoe idea, I just did a Google search and found some very creative designs around that...
Wow, definitely one of my dream hats! I'm a 7-1/4 though so I would have never gone that high for this one... but for those of you who wear a little bigger size.... maybe the poor man's version...
Thanks for the tip deadlyhandsome, I just read through the thread, lots of removed pictures, outdated links, etc. but also a few clever and relevant ideas. I guess I probably should have named the subject of this thread How Do You "Display" Your Hats? since I'm really more interested in seeing...
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