Western, anyone?

[Blare]

Worth - Walden 15X
3-1/8" RE x 5-3/4" OC. I wear this one with no dents.

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Beautiful hat

 

[Woodtroll]

"The Bohannon" from Revranhats.com View attachment 259172 View attachment 259173 View attachment 259174

I'm puzzled by the random whipstitching on this and some of the other hats that have shown up here lately. I'm assuming that the purpose is to make it appear more rustic, but why would an honest hat wearer whipstitch an inch of the brim this way, even on a thoroughly worn hat?

 

[jlee562]

I'm puzzled by the random whipstitching on this and some of the other hats that have shown up here lately. I'm assuming that the purpose is to make it appear more rustic, but why would an honest hat wearer whipstitch an inch of the brim this way, even on a thoroughly worn hat?

Hornskov has a hat with a few inches of edge binding, I would wear that! Not everyone's thing, but you know, different strokes and all.

I agree though, to me, if the distressed look is the goal, the distressing on a hat just has to make sense. I don't recall if I'm remembering this adage from Adam Savage or elsewhere, but the markings should tell the story of the object. I guess I'm underestimating the number of hats that get burnt in real life?

 

[Woodtroll]

I agree though, to me, if the distressed look is the goal, the distressing on a hat just has to make sense. I don't recall of I'm remembering this adage from Adam Savage or elsewhere, but the markings should tell the story of the object. I guess I'm underestimating the number of hats that be burnt in real life?

Yes, you get my point exactly and expressed it better than I did - distressing should "make sense" and "tell the story"; it should look like honest wear. There are lots of good worn-hat stories on here, but you can always tell that Yahoody's hats, for example, have earned their dust honestly.

And the burnt hats... well, my wife has threatened with a couple of my well-worn old favorites years ago, but fortunately none have ever suffered that fate!

 

[BobHufford]

Actual necessary stitching on my Valentine the Hatter:

Ash and a few burns on my Resistol that I use in the rain and to burn brush (sometimes at the same time). That leather band (rough finish on the inside) has bled into the hat a bit as well. Now ... how do I trademark all this wear?

 

[Yahoody]

aged hats: https://www.riverjunction.com/Hat-Antiquing-or-Distressing_p_2052.html

I get why some one might want to own or buy a costume hat. Just never understood why anyone would take a new hat and make it look old other than needing a costume.

As Bob clearly show us above, you don't have to go far or look hard to find a well worn hat or abused hat . Shame on you Bob

Hard to believe some times, but I suspect most of us spend real money on hats we want to look at least presentable in. Might take a hat sponge and brush to get there. Might even take a different hat.

I'm pretty particular as to the hat I wear. I might show up in the barn at O dark thirty in knee high rubber boots and my shorts. But I'd sure wear a "proper" hat while doing so

 

[Woodtroll]

Actual necessary stitching on my Valentine the Hatter:

Ash and a few burns on my Resistol that I use in the rain and to burn brush (sometimes at the same time). That leather band (rough finish on the inside) has bled into the hat a bit as well. Now ... how do I trademark all this wear?

Haha, Bob, when we were talking about burned hats, I completely forgot about your brush-pile-burning hats! I guess you've still got a lot of that in your future, with all the unfortunate tree damage you suffered not long ago.

 

[1961MJS]

Back when every guy wore a hat damn near all the time they were outside, burnt hats were possibly the norm.

Never wear a straw hat burning the leaves every fall. Not a personal experience, but I've see a few other things get toasted that weren't supposed to. That ALMOST included my grandparents garage when they moved to town and Dad and I were burning leaves.

Later

 

[BobHufford]

Haha, Bob, when we were talking about burned hats, I completely forgot about your brush-pile-burning hats! I guess you've still got a lot of that in your future, with all the unfortunate tree damage you suffered not long ago.

Regan -- you are correct sir! We have three small brush piles (that I will burn soon) and two large ones (both bigger than the house). I'll probably have the volunteer fire department out when I decide to light those up. Ship me any hats you want the ember treatment applied to. (Or, sadly, you could just drive through many parts of California with the hats strapped to the roof)

 

[deadlyhandsome]

We burn once a year. April usually. Just dry grass. Last year the grass was shoulder high. With in 30 seconds I knew I'm made a mistake lighting that one. Then the wind came up.

By the time an engine arrived from 3 minutes down the road we'd lost a couple of acres of grass. No big deal. The grass comes back quick from a burn. Fences not so much. We got it stopped just shy of the fence line and the neighbor's field.

Warmer than I wanted to be It scared me! No harm to my good black hat though Not some thing I want to repeat.

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That’s a tough way to get a haircut. I’m glad it wasn’t worse than it was...fences aren’t the only things that don’t grow back.

 

[Yahoody]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Running errands which included "hittin' the bank" wearing El jefe, a Stetson One-hundred.

 

[georgie girl]

I've also purchased from Mike Moore (Buckaroo Hatter in Covington Tennessee), and Tony (Tumwater Hats Tumwater Washington).

I'd let any of those three work on a hat like that.
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Thanks for the tip, I'd never heard of Tumwater Hats and I grew up in that area.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi
If he's still in business, post back. Someone in this thread posted that he's not making hats anymore, bummer, I love the one he made for me. I haven't talked to him in years. I had dinner with him back before 2012 up in Seattle WA. Great guy.
Later

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Thanks for the tip, I'd never heard of Tumwater Hats and I grew up in that area.

Tumwater is now in Colorado. You can see it the hatter @tonyb will take a commission, but he wasn’t very interested in mine. Could have just been me.

 

[tonyb]

Tumwater is now in Colorado. You can see it the hatter @tonyb will take a commission, but he wasn’t very interested in mine. Could have just been me.

I apologize if I left you feeling snubbed. Shoot me a message or give a call, provided you still have any interest in that.

Again, I apologize.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi Tony

How's Colorado? What part, the mountains or Western Kansas?

Mike Schroeder, now of Oklahoma.

 

[tonyb]

Hi Tony

How's Colorado? What part, the mountains or Western Kansas?

Mike Schroeder, now of Oklahoma.

Beautiful Aurora, the Newark of the Front Range region.

It suits me. It’s an unpretentious, generic, largely working-class suburb. We’re in a rambler/ranch/whatever you wanna call it, in a subdivision built-out in 1977, full of quite similar structures (ramblers and split-levels). It’s been here long enough that the cookie-cutter-ness of it isn’t so obvious anymore.

I like the summers here — real summers, sunny and hot — after all those years out in the reliably cool and cloudy maritime Northwest. But I must admit that the novelty got to wearing thin toward the tail end of August. But, it ain’t Phoenix.

 

[belfastboy]

Today marks the premier of the new movie...."The Cowboy Hat Movie"....opening at the Montana Film Fest except of course it is all online this year. They have a web site of the same name where you can find the link to purchase access and watch the trailer. I am headed there now to saddle up!

 

[1961MJS]

Beautiful Aurora, the Newark of the Front Range region.

It suits me. It’s an unpretentious, generic, largely working-class suburb. We’re in a rambler/ranch/whatever you wanna call it, in a subdivision built-out in 1977, full of quite similar structures (ramblers and split-levels). It’s been here long enough that the cookie-cutter-ness of it isn’t so obvious anymore.
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Hi Tony
If you're still in the hat business, especially the Fedora business, look up a group called Zoot Shooters. They do gangster style action shooting. I think they'd buy your hats. The one I know the best is leaving town, moving to Texas.

http://www.zootshooters.com/

I'll PM you the guy I shoot with, he'd know who to talk to if you want.

Later