BUCKAROO BONANZA! - The Hats that Major Mike Moore Makes

[majormoore]

Its a Winchester staple body western

Major Moore

 

[tonyb]

Well, it took a real nice-lookin' finish.

 

[barrowjh]

Swap'n Hat Bands

This hat from November 'been buggin me, a $12 antique stiff-as-concrete hat, made to look nice with a tooled leather hat band purchased at Buckaroo -


One of my fave westerns was looking sorta plain, this 'Cutter Bill' Resistol Beaver 50 -


So I decided to go from this -


To this -


I'm liking the switcheroo, may have to find something else to adorn that $12 navy beater.

 

[bowlerman]

Looks nice in both. The band is sweet!


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[RJR]

+1 re the leather band.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

+1

 

[jhl1963]

I just took delivery of this guy (with a few bands) from Mike - fit and finish are extraordinary and mike is a great guy - he went out of his way to make me happy. My first hat, but not my last from Mike for sure. I posted it in another section but thought it should go here too. Mike sent me the conformateur via FedEx and fit is amazing.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Nice. Glad you liked it.

 

[RBH]

I saw this on the Buckaroo Facebook page, so I can now say something about it!

from the Facebook page:

''Here is a new hat, its called the Moore Lite , it has a 2 5/8: brim with a bound edge and a leather sweatband along with the 14 line hat band ribbon, and it only weighs 2 oz. finished
Also the hat has NO stiffener in it, not in the brim or crown

It is so lite its unreal, I have three colors of the 100X beaver dress weight hat."

" I have this (14gray, 14 black and 18 brown. I had Winchester Hat Company make these for me."

Mine is going on the block next weekend!!

 

[RJR]

Wow,the new lite looks interesting.

 

[Rogera]

2 oz finished? No stiffener? I can't wait to see these! The sample looks great

 

[majormoore]

These are lighter than the ones I had many years back, will be doing a brown one in the coming days, there still is a learning curve on how much sanding the crown can handle due to the thin hat body.

Major Moore

 

[RJR]

With no stiffener will they hold their shape?

 

[T Jones]

These are lighter than the ones I had many years back, will be doing a brown one in the coming days, there still is a learning curve on how much sanding the crown can handle due to the thin hat body.

Major Moore

Don't know if I missed it, I saw that the brim width is 2 5/8. What's the Open Crown height, and would you send these out open crowned upon request? Would the block be fairly straight sided? Looks interesting.

 

[tonyb]

These are lighter than the ones I had many years back, will be doing a brown one in the coming days, there still is a learning curve on how much sanding the crown can handle due to the thin hat body.

Major Moore

I'm guessing it might "mold" a tad easier? As contrasted with the standard dress weight, anyway?

 

[RBH]

I believe open crown is 2 3/4.

 

[RJR]

Is that a typo,Rusty?The crown looks a lot higher than 2 3/4.

 

[RBH]

:eusa_doh:

yep 5 3/4.

 

[majormoore]

I can do the open crown from 5" to 5 3/4" , I have #52 blocks and even have some strataliner blocks that are 5 1/2" tall, nor brims over 2 5/8" wide , would rather send open crown and you do you own crown shape.

Major Moore

Don't know if I missed it, I saw that the brim width is 2 5/8. What's the Open Crown height, and would you send these out open crowned upon request? Would the block be fairly straight sided? Looks interesting.

 

[Thunderball]

I took my buddy to the shop yesterday and ended up with a nice Western. I will post some pictures when I have time.

The Moore Lite is an awesome hat. It is soft as a baby's but and conforms to oddball heads like mine. It looks like I may end up spending Moore money before the end of the summer. Now I need to sell off some of my older hats. I have ran out of places to put them.