Good eye and a good job, TJ. The films a favorite of mine and with a thousand miles or so on horseback behind some stinking A$$ cattle, you won't be able to tell a difference.
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Good eye and a good job, TJ. The films a favorite of mine and with a thousand miles or so on horseback behind some stinking A$$ cattle, you won't be able to tell a difference.
T Jones
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Ha! Thank you buddy.
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Love that one Terry.I just watched the movie also.After that and your hat,I want to do something similar.Maybe do something different with the brim.More pics of my Resistol 3X Costner inspired Open Range conversion. It started off as a size 7 1/4 but was still too tight for me. I took it apart and resized it on a 23 1/4 plastic straight sided dome Hat Shaper. The open crown was lowered to six inches from its original 6 1/2 inches. I did gain more brim but not uniformly. I got 4 1/4 inches on one side and 4 1/8 inches on the other side. Front and back of the brim remained at 4 inches. The brim width was an easy fix. I trimmed off the excess on each side and was able to maintain the hat's original 4 inches brim width all around and still had a relatively tall open crown. Two Western hats that I've always admired were Costner's Open Range hat and Selleck's Quigley Down Under hat. Although I was more strongly inspired by the Open Range hat I did bring an element of the Down Under hat to this conversion. I really liked the fuller brim of Quigley's hat over Costner's more squeezed in looking brim, if that's a good enough description. But definitely the crown crease and over all look of this conversion was inspired by Costner's Open Range hat.
On the block
Ironing the brim
Tacked new sweat in place with temporary stitches
New sweat sewn in with permanent stitches and the temporary stitches are cut and removed
Hat sprayed down with water, but not soaking, to shape the brim and crease the crown. Then let it dry...
Dry and ready to wear
Top angle showing the mule kick in the back and side dent
On the head. Different angles. This hat is really comfortable.
Open Range
Quigley Down Under
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Thank you DMAN! Yeah buddy. You should definitely do one! Can't wait to see what you come up with.
It was a good movie, for sure. I even have this Open Range pic as the screen saver on my phone
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T Jones
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Reworking another Stagecoach. This one started off as a size 7 1/8. Needless to say, it was way too small for me. I even cut the Reed on the sweat and tried to stretch it so I could wear the hat. It was still too snug. Well, I took it apart this morning and I'm reblocking it on the same 23 1/4 straight sided dome hat shaper. As with my Costner Open Range hat the open crown height on this one will be lowered to six inches as well. I'll have more later. I'm still deciding on brim shape and crown crease.
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My Costner inspired Open Range hat conversion, on the head. Still have to figure out a hat band.
That is just perfect... I love that movie just because of the hat... and the fact that Robert Duvall is in the movie... but I do love this hat!!
~shoes~
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I’m not a cowboy hat fan unless they are conversions. Then I’m a big fan. I have a Chris Eddy Golden Spur cowboy hat listed in the classifieds. I’m giving it away if someone wants a project hat. Or it could be worn as is.
Just a heads up.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/chris-eddy-golden-collection-xxxxxxx-free.93411/
Just a heads up.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/chris-eddy-golden-collection-xxxxxxx-free.93411/
T Jones
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Thank you buddy. I really appreciate that.
I'm with you on the movie. It was one of my favorite Westerns too. Duvall is a natural.
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You should try and give Westerns a chance. You might look better wearing one than you think.
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Oh I’ve tried them. My wife just doesn’t like that look on me. We even have four horses. Go figure!
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Women can be funny that way. My wife actually likes Westerns on me better than she does fedoras, but she still refuses to be seen with me in public wearing one....which is okay be me. I need my alone time anyway.
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Dang women.
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I can't believe you guys! I've already bought season tickets for the new WNFL!
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Well, Dang wasn't the word I had in mind.Dang women.
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