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Western, anyone?

Joao Encarnado

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That was the plan, but now having second thoughts. Will ultimately depend on how much brim remains after re-block.
Let us know how it ended.

Almost forgot to post this one here, my latest addition.
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More pictures of it in the new hats thread.
 

H Weinstein

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Quiet on the Western Front..?

This thread has been dormant for a bit. Here are a few of my new or newly re-done western hats.

After 3 seasons, I decided I liked the hat worn by the title character on the TV series LONGMIRE. The Loden Akubra Rough Rider I got is darker than the show hat, but I found the proper horsehair hatband and had fun re-shaping the standard cattleman crown and brim into the swoopy pinchfront shape of Walt Longmire's hat:

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This next one also started out as an Akubra Rough Rider in Light Sand. I wanted something close to white without actually being white. I liked the LONGMIRE-style teardrop-pinchfront, but kept the brim somewhat flatter, and made the hatband myself with a black leather belt from Target and diamond spots from Tandy Leather:

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I liked the Light Sand Rough Rider's style and shape so much that I did a black one the same way, but with a hatband inspired by the one from the old TV series HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL:

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Next up, an Akubra Bobby (Sand), one of my first hats, and it's been through several revisions. I finally settled on a replica of the hat worn by Raylan Givens in the TV series JUSTIFIED. The crown is standard cattleman. But it took some patient tweaking to give the brim the right subtle curl and droop in front and back. Found the correct hatband at our local Maryland store Carol's Western Wear. Here's Tim Olyphant's:

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And mine:

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Last one for today. This one is an older Akubra Boss of the Plains in Sorrel (I'm sorry they dropped this hat from the lineup) which has been though several re-bashes. I finally settled on a combo of the Longmire crown and the Justified brim. Homemade hatband. Very comfortable hat:

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There's only one problem with having a bunch of hats I like: picking which one to wear on any given day!
I did take the light one to Arizona for our recent return trip to Old Tucson Studios:

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