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Another hot one in store for today. Gotta get out early to enjoy felts for a while.

Resistol Stagecoach with beaded snakeskin pattern hatband.

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M Brown

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Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the Canyon Road shop.
(edited to correct the shop location-I have another one from the Durango shop-it's a "Heaven's Gate" Western Fedora)

So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.

The hat band (braided horse hair) came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.

This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
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and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
MIQZP70.jpg
 
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Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.

So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.

The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.

This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
2AhBEOF.jpg
[/IMG]

and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
MIQZP70.jpg
Nice save! Glad to see you didn't cut the brim. Would like to see pics of the sweat embossing & liner, & build info on the back side of the sweat.

Welcome to the forum. Look forward to seeing your other hats.
 

Desert dog

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Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.

So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.

The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.

This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
2AhBEOF.jpg
[/IMG]

and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
MIQZP70.jpg
Great job on that one! The band looks perfect on it!

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Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.

So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.

The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.

This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
2AhBEOF.jpg
[/IMG]

and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
MIQZP70.jpg
Nice work!

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
 

Cornshucker77

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Northeast Nebraska, USA
Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.

So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.

The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.

This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
2AhBEOF.jpg
[/IMG]

and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
MIQZP70.jpg
Excellent M.
 

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