T Jones
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Thank you, steur!Another excellent conversion, Terry. I really like these different finished ones. Great colours on this one too.
Thank you, steur!Another excellent conversion, Terry. I really like these different finished ones. Great colours on this one too.
I tried to search it but I couldn't come up with anything.I'll see if I can find it.
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I tried to search it but I couldn't come up with anything.
I'll check that out. ThanksI can't seem to save the photo, but it is on etsy. Listed as "Resistol Cowboy hat 7 1/4 open road style 6x beaver. Vendor is Viscous Vintage. If it were only 7 3/8!
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Nice job,Scott.Stetson #1 circa 1960s . Been searching for a back up wide brim in this silver belly for a long time and stumbled upon this in one of my somnambulist moments. Although it was a 7 3/8 and with 1/8 cord ribbon I needed it to be 7 1/2 in case I liked how it turned out. The brim is a whopping 3 3/4 and one of the biggest I’ve tried wearing and I am liking it . (My other main hat is only at 3”)
I digress. To begin with after stripping it down
I washed the hat in the washing machine for a quick soap wash to get the dirt out and freshen up the felt. I followed up with a robust reblocking on a #52 straight profile block and left the height at 5 1/2.
After a couple of days on the block coaxing the old mule kick out of the back of the crown. I ironed the brim heartedly for better part of 2 days trying to flatten it out to its current state. Lastly I sanded the beautiful fur felt to get some of the light moth tracks out and to smooth the felt to match what I had ironed on the brim before... much work at this point but by now I was certain I was going to keep it and I didn’t feel the need to finish it so i just took my time enjoying and creating it as I went.
Fur felt by the way is super nice and has the stiffness like a 7x or just like a really good quality #1 the likes which I haven’t seen in quite some time.
I opted to add a fully vented naked taupe sweat band as I was imagining to wear this hat in warmer weather or perhaps not. The Silk liner is in a Matt Silver and is from some nice Silk machine made shantung which I can’t find anymore of unfortunately and seems to be going the way of vinegar ribbon too.
Anyway the crown ribbon is also one of last colors I had only enough to do just this hat with.
Hope you all enjoy the hat as much as I enjoyed converting it to something that matched more of my tastes.
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Nice crown !!
Inspired by Terry's many successful conversions, I tried my hand at converting a Resistol Stagecoach in "Chestnut" color. I'm fond of medium browns, and they are hard to come by in new felt. 7-3/4 fedoras are hard to come by, too. So I started with this hat from eBay at a great price:
and cut the brim to 3-1/4", bashed in a 5" tall teardrop crown, sewed in a new sweatband, and made a ribbon out of a piece of vintage (supposedly) grosgrain ribbon in "redwood" color. Not perfect, but I learned a lot, and I may tweak it a little more yet. I may end up cutting another 1/4" off the brim but I'm having a hard time bringing myself to try it. I'm a big, tall, broad guy and this hat looks pretty proportional on me (I think!).
It ended up looking suspiciously like an "Indy" hat, even though that was not my intention, and at least this one "fits" me proportionally. Oh well, I guess I'll take the jokes; can I help it I like brown fedoras?
Y'all take care,
Regan
Buddy, I'm flattered by the shout out. If you enjoy doing conversions, stick with it and keep up the good work.Inspired by Terry's many successful conversions, I tried my hand at converting a Resistol Stagecoach in "Chestnut" color. I'm fond of medium browns, and they are hard to come by in new felt. 7-3/4 fedoras are hard to come by, too. So I started with this hat from eBay at a great price:
and cut the brim to 3-1/4", bashed in a 5" tall teardrop crown, sewed in a new sweatband, and made a ribbon out of a piece of vintage (supposedly) grosgrain ribbon in "redwood" color. Not perfect, but I learned a lot, and I may tweak it a little more yet. I may end up cutting another 1/4" off the brim but I'm having a hard time bringing myself to try it. I'm a big, tall, broad guy and this hat looks pretty proportional on me (I think!).
It ended up looking suspiciously like an "Indy" hat, even though that was not my intention, and at least this one "fits" me proportionally. Oh well, I guess I'll take the jokes; can I help it I like brown fedoras?
Y'all take care,
Regan
Excellent conversion Regan!Inspired by Terry's many successful conversions, I tried my hand at converting a Resistol Stagecoach in "Chestnut" color. I'm fond of medium browns, and they are hard to come by in new felt. 7-3/4 fedoras are hard to come by, too. So I started with this hat from eBay at a great price:
and cut the brim to 3-1/4", bashed in a 5" tall teardrop crown, sewed in a new sweatband, and made a ribbon out of a piece of vintage (supposedly) grosgrain ribbon in "redwood" color. Not perfect, but I learned a lot, and I may tweak it a little more yet. I may end up cutting another 1/4" off the brim but I'm having a hard time bringing myself to try it. I'm a big, tall, broad guy and this hat looks pretty proportional on me (I think!).
It ended up looking suspiciously like an "Indy" hat, even though that was not my intention, and at least this one "fits" me proportionally. Oh well, I guess I'll take the jokes; can I help it I like brown fedoras?
Y'all take care,
Regan