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The Conversion Corral

Dan Allen

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395
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Oklahoma
You can thank Parker Melvin for the restoration. Everything they say about him being darn slow but damned well worth it is spot on. As I mentioned, it was so dirty that I had to "brush" it with an old tooth brush to get it clean enough to see the color. It was a 3" raw brim western taken down to 2 1/2.
 
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Chepstow

I'll Lock Up
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5,406
Location
Germany/ Remscheid
I am proud to present my new Straw / Felt conversion! I thought it's time for a nice Summer hat. This is a projekt that was in my mind a long time, now I made it!
A old Wegener Homburg with a Mayser Country Straw hat. The Strawburg!!

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Chepstow

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Germany/ Remscheid
Thank you so much for the kind words and comments, Tom, Mike, Alan, Steve, Richard, Mike, Barry and Jared, I really appreciate it!
Thank you all!


Richard, I have no photos from this Conversion but I will show you how I made it!
 

LoveMyHats2

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5,196
Location
Michigan
Dang! If you could make hats like that you'd be able to sell them like hot cakes, Manfred! Size 7 1/2 here in case.....weeeee haaaaaw!
 

LoveMyHats2

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5,196
Location
Michigan
Good job D man. I give you credit for wrangling those 4xs.
Here is my first ever Wormser hburg that I just converted. Felt is very mice quality and has a nice hand to it the brim is very pliable.For got to take a before pic so here's the finished pic only added brim binding and rebashed crown. Everything else is original. Color of brim binding is exactly same color that was originally on
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This is fantastic! Looks like a super clean Whippet!
 

bond

My Mail is Forwarded Here
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3,535
Location
Third coast
Manfred you are king of the Strawburgs!
Here are some pics of my recently acquired Art Fawcett hat that I took for a walk to local river and christened it with river sand wash to give it some character as it was painfully too shiny new for my tastes. After all a beaver lives in river muck no?
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LoveMyHats2

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5,196
Location
Michigan
I recently received the Resistol beaver 100 that I had sent to Falcon Park to be converted to a "civilian" hat. It was a nine dollar purchase that was so dirty I thought it was brown. the sweat band was gone but the felt was just amazing. I have since spoken with some of the original owners family and was told that it was owned by a construction company owner and was presented to his by employees as a gift in the early fifties and was worn by him daily till he died thirty years later. They wondered where the hat went, I felt a little bad for having it but I was assured that it was ok.


Looks so fine....custom made look to it!
 

Chepstow

I'll Lock Up
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5,406
Location
Germany/ Remscheid
LoveMyHats2 and Bond, you are too kind, thank you very much, gentlemen for the kind words about the Strawburg. I really appreciate them!

Nice hat, Bond. Looks as was the river sand not bad for him!

Richard, that is not so difficult as it looks! I removed the straw sweatband along the seam.
Then I cut the felt along the leather sweatband, so I have a fur stripe where I can sew the straw body over the felt flange. The straw body should be a little bit larger as the fur body!
Thats all!
Look here! my first conversion with a beaver felt black and a cuenca!

better photos![/QUOTE]
 

humanshoes

One Too Many
Messages
1,446
Location
Tennessee
I believe I may be too new here at the forum to post pics, however, I just did my first conversion on a beat up Resistol Stockman. I removed 5/8" off the brim using a compass and an exacto knife. Sanded edge with 320 grit sandpaper, then, steaming, brushing, blocking, and a little bit of cursing. Added a 1-1/2" grosgrain ribbon and voila, a very serviceable fedora that should stand up to the rigors of my everyday life.
 
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