Making a Western hat by hand?

[Hurricane Jack]

Tommy Lee Jones owns the screenplay rights to two more Elmer Kelton novels but I doubt they ever get made into movies. He has talked about how hard it is to get financing for a Western movie today.

The same with The Last Full Measure ever being financed by Ted Turner after the poor box office results for Gods and Generals.

Instead we get cartoon movies.

 

[Yahoody]

Bosal is sitting too high. I gotta work on my impulse control.

Ah, that one? It is a rope bosalita my friend, not a bosal Being used as a make shift halter. So being made of rope and being it is a halter, traditionally it wouldn't be considered bosalita or bosal. Either way not so much too high as just too big. Nice choice on the head stall and grazer bit though. Next time? Use a sharper stick amigo

Liked this too. Same basic rig, better done.

Bosilta being used to make a lead rope/halter while straight up in the Spade. Just so we have that all straight

 

[Yahoody]

Bosal is sitting too high. I gotta work on my impulse control.

Appreciate the joshing Bama'. Figure you're a Southern boy. Jack and you both can appreciate this I suspect. You guys ever read about the CSA Cavalry riding so long and so far that they strapped themselves into the saddle to sleep and had open sores on their legs for months at a time? I've done hundred mile days but those fellas are the definition of hard. Had to have gone through an unbelievable amount of horses.

 

[Cornshucker77]

Thanks HJack. Often thought that movie really needed a prequel and a sequel. Great character and amazing costuming I thought. S&W, Sharps, Apache moccasins, spurs, floursack pull over shirt, saddles and of course the faded hat were really nice efforts I sure appreciated.

and one of the better bad men....

I'm liking the Sharps and Henry rifles!!

 

[Cornshucker77]

Tommy Lee Jones owns the screenplay rights to two more Elmer Kelton novels but I doubt they ever get made into movies. He has talked about how hard it is to get financing for a Western movie today.

The same with The Last Full Measure ever being financed by Ted Turner after the poor box office results for Gods and Generals.

Instead we get cartoon movies.

That's too bad. We need more Westerns.

 

[Yahoody]

Thought this a good read on the "Missing".

http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2003/missing_production_details.htm

 

[Latigo]

 

[Yahoody]

Kinda funny...as I had forgotten this. Where I come from, and several generations back I suspect, the last topics of any thing but exceptionally polite conversation would be, wives, girlfriends, kids, choice in hats, boots, saddle or horse. When ya start talking outside the parlor room with no ladies and kids in tow, about booze, tabacco, guns and lascivious women any thing goes. But the previously mentioned topics when broached at all, are generally always left to intimate conversation between close friends.

Conversations that ya really want to stay friendly about wives, kids, fences, horses, cattle and hats, generally begin and end with, "yep, that is one way to do it".

Pretty good way to avoid boorish behavior just about any where a fella might go

 

[Desert dog]

Kinda funny...as I had forgotten this. Where I come from, and several generations back I suspect, the last topics of any thing but exceptionally polite conversation would be, wives, girlfriends, kids, choice in hats, boots, saddle or horse. When ya start talking booze, tabacco, guns and lascivious women any thing goes. But the previously mentioned topics are generally always left to intimate conversation between close friends.

Conversations that ya really want to stay friendly about wives, kids, fences, horses and cattle, generally begin and end with, "yep, that is one way to do it".

Pretty good way to avoid boorish behavior just about any where for a fella.

Great philosophy Yahoody! As my dad would say "more than one way to skin a cat", and leave it at that.

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[Bamaboots]

Ah, that one? It is a rope bosalita my friend, not a bosa

Yeah, Yahoody I'm aware. Just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke the bear. Remember my issues with impulse control.

Appreciate the joshing Bama'. Figure you're a Southern boy. Jack and you both can appreciate this I suspect. You guys ever read about the CSA Cavalry riding so long and so far that they strapped themselves into the saddle to sleep and had open sores on their legs for months at a time? I've done hundred mile days but those fellas are the definition of hard. Had to have gone through an unbelievable amount of horses.

I have read some of those stories. Horses were a tool to get the job done. Glad I've never had to ask that of a horse. 40-50 miles in a day is quite a day on horseback.

As a young man I lived in Scottsboro, Al which is in Jackson Co. At the time it was kind of a hot bed for quarter horses in AL. and it's where I first got into horses and bought my first one. There was a fellow there that raised registered AQH's and some of the finest I had been around at the time. He also raised mules and as a paving contractor and the owner of a dump truck business, he had a bit of disposable income. Even back then he was an old fellow that was beat up and limping but he loved his horses and loved to ride. I remember going to his place for the first time and him showing me his custom made saddle with a seat belt attached. Just the thought of strapping in scared the $#!+ out of me but he thought it was the greatest thing ever.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That's too bad. We need more Westerns.

I try & support every one that comes to the theaters. I recently went to see The Ballad of Lefty Brown, & The Hostiles.

 

[Bamaboots]

The Hostiles

Jack, I know you enjoyed Lefty Brown, but what of the Hostiles, or did I miss your post on that?

 

[Desert dog]

I try & support every one that comes to the theaters. I recently went to see The Ballad of Lefty Brown, & The Hostiles.

I saw Hostiles the day it was released but have not seen Lefty Brown.

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[Hurricane Jack]

Jack, I know you enjoyed Lefty Brown, but what of the Hostiles, or did I miss your post on that?

I liked it. I've liked Christian Bale & Ben Foster since I saw them in the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. There was a nod or acknowledgement between Bale & Foster when Foster first appears on screen that I'm probably reading too much into, but I instantly thought back to their roles in 3:10... Wes Studi is always great, & I enjoyed seeing Stephen Lang again even though he had a small part. I understand from reviews that some think it too long & boring, but I enjoyed it.

 

[Desert dog]

I liked it. I've liked Christian Bale & Ben Foster since I saw them in the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. There was a nod or acknowledgement between Bale & Foster when Foster first appears on screen that I'm probably reading too much into, but I instantly thought back to their roles in 3:10... Wes Studi is always great, & I enjoyed seeing Stephen Lang again even though he had a small part. I understand from reviews that some think it too long & boring, but I enjoyed it.

I agree Jack. My wife and I thought it was much better than we were expecting. I also liked Bale in 3:10 to Yuma.

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[Bamaboots]

I also liked Bale in 3:10 to Yuma.

Me too. Glad they didn't try to mimic the Glenn Ford version but payed homage to it.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

And I've really liked Stephen Lang since Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, Tombstone, etc.

 

[Desert dog]

Me too. Glad they didn't try to mimic the Glenn Ford version but payed homage to it.

You nailed it!

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[Yahoody]

I've seen both and enjoyed them immensely. Different production values for sure but good story lines and actors. Thought Bill Pullman did an outstanding job as Lefty.

Kathy Baker is just a distraction for me once she "lost her hand" as the crazy lady years back.
I can't seem to get over that character

I thought Hostiles was exceptional with everyone doing a damn near perfect job. Lot of folks I know or have discussed the movie with thought it way too politically correct. Kinda a given I guess in the cowboy and gun culture. It is a good story line with a lot packed into a short feature length film. I was jonesing to see it for a few month prior to opening and wasn't even a tiny bit disappointed. Far as I could tell only one historical inaccuracy...and I'll even give them that

 

[Yahoody]

.... him showing me his custom made saddle with a seat belt attached.......

" that be one way of doing it", haahaahhaahahahhhahahhahahahahhahahhah