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The Conversion Corral

DOGMAN

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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
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Ironing the brim
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Tacked new sweat in place with temporary stitches
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New sweat sewn in with permanent stitches and the temporary stitches are cut and removed
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Hat sprayed down with water, but not soaking, to shape the brim and crease the crown. Then let it dry...
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Dry and ready to wear
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Top angle showing the mule kick in the back and side dent
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On the head. Different angles. This hat is really comfortable.
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Open Range
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Quigley Down Under
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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.
 

T Jones

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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.
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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T Jones

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