New Member to the Hat Forum

[Blare]

Hello everyone,
I am Jeff, looong-time lurker, finally a joiner. I have been wearing and owning hats for the past 35 years (long-time customer of @besdor - who I see no longer posts). After all this time I finally felt that I should look into restoring and refurbishing my old ones and those of friends and family. Long story short, once you start looking into that you look into acquiring more hats to refurbish (and wear). Mostly interested in dress fur and straw fedoras, I suppose one day I going to try making some in fur felt. I work in IT, but since I own the company I am no longer as hands-on as I was when I was starting out. Looks like my hands found their way to my hats. Wish me luck. Good to be here with you all.

Jeff

Welcome Jeff We look forward to seeing you post your hats.

 

[bean_counter]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

 

[jeffgarf]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

Welcome and beware. Spending to much time here is no good for the wallet (but it is a ton of fun).

Jeff

 

[Fedora Frank]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

Welcome aboard, I have just returned after years long hiatus!
This is a great Forum with very good people!

 

[Blare]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

Welcome

 

[hatsRme]

Welcome aboard, I have just returned after years long hiatus!
This is a great Forum with very good people!

FRANK!!
Good to hear from you, sir. I imagine you have lots of great lids to show us!

 

[hatsRme]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

Welcome!

 

[rogueclimber]

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

Welcome!

You can even add your location to your profile so in the future we know where you are

 

[Fedora Frank]

FRANK!!
Good to hear from you, sir. I imagine you have lots of great lids to show us!

Hey my friend,glad to still see you here as the song goes “ it’s been a long,long time”!
Thanks for the kind words,I no longer live in New England I retired and mover to Myrtle Beach SC

 

[RickP]

New member, have lurked a bit and decided to join. Early 60s, retired, starting to get into hats for everyday wear. Have a couple of wool Stetsons, and received a nice Akubra felt from my wife for Christmas (Banjo Paterson).

edit - located northern Midwest, USA

Welcome!

 

[Cattleman Crease]

Hi FL Members!

New member here, already on my journey to a nice hat collection - I've purchased 8 in the last 6 months! As you might imagine from my username, I'm partial to hats with cattleman creases, specifically OR and OR clones, but I do have a few western ranchers with regular brims in my collection - to go along with my boot collection. This forum introduced me to CDs, so I'm on the hunt for a couple of those (y'all are enablers, I tell ya!). Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to the FL community. I will enjoy reading your stories & viewing all your hats pics, and I will enjoy adding more hats to my collection & posting pics as well!

Cheers!

CC

 

[jeffgarf]

Welcome and I'm sorry

 

[Blare]

Hi FL Members!

New member here, already on my journey to a nice hat collection - I've purchased 8 in the last 6 months! As you might imagine from my username, I'm partial to hats with cattleman creases, specifically OR and OR clones, but I do have a few western ranchers with regular brims in my collection - to go along with my boot collection. This forum introduced me to CDs, so I'm on the hunt for a couple of those (y'all are enablers, I tell ya!). Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to the FL community. I will enjoy reading your stories & viewing all your hats pics, and I will enjoy adding more hats to my collection & posting pics as well!

Cheers!

CC

Welcome aboard. We look forward to seeing your hat posts.

 

[rogueclimber]

Hi FL Members!

New member here, already on my journey to a nice hat collection - I've purchased 8 in the last 6 months! As you might imagine from my username, I'm partial to hats with cattleman creases, specifically OR and OR clones, but I do have a few western ranchers with regular brims in my collection - to go along with my boot collection. This forum introduced me to CDs, so I'm on the hunt for a couple of those (y'all are enablers, I tell ya!). Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to the FL community. I will enjoy reading your stories & viewing all your hats pics, and I will enjoy adding more hats to my collection & posting pics as well!

Cheers!

CC

Welcome, let the hat finding begin