Wolfbrae Custom Hatters

[deadlyhandsome]

Looks great Brent! I assume it has a silver lining. Congrats to you and Robert.

Better than silver (I added a liner photo).

 

[Rmccamey]

My latest Wolfbrae! This is a 220g western weight 100% nutria felt from Sunrise Hat Supply. The color is “Rain Cloud,” and it’s a light grey with strong blue tones…or a light blue with strong grey tones? There are times when it decidedly looks blue and others when the grey is dominant. In any case, it’s a dynamite color! Slightly under six inch open crown and 3 1/2” bound brim. The tone-on-tone binding and ribbon were a great choice by Robert! Sunrise nutria felt is very inconsistent. This felt is about 3/4 as stiff as the hats made from the same weight by VS and Phoenix. It’s a great substantial western weight hat and fits a different niche than my more fedora-like westerns made by Gannon from this same weight felt. The construction is spot-on! Robert makes great hats for great prices!


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Very nice!,

 

[belfastboy]

Better than silver (I added a liner photo).

I have my standard satin liners that I match in a general way to the felt/sweat. But I also have accumulated some fancier fabrics in silk, cotton, linen that I find online. Brent has given me (much appreciated) certain latitude in choosing the liner material. Not sure how to incorporate these fabrics in my offerings as trying to establish colour via camera, internet, computer monitor is fraught with such difficulty.

 

[belfastboy]

Looks great Brent! I assume it has a silver lining. Congrats to you and Robert.

I amaze myself.....I just got the joke!.......better late than never.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Great western weight in a smokey blue. The leather band is a great change-up from my usual ribbon. A simple hat that’s perfectly executed.

 

[belfastboy]

Great western weight in a smokey blue. The leather band is a great change-up from my usual ribbon. A simple hat that’s perfectly executed.

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This is the felt I almost kept for myself as I didn't think I could get your desired dimensions. I would not have been disappointed if I had kept. Glad you like it and now I will order this colour for myself next order.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

This is the felt I almost kept for myself as I didn't think I could get your desired dimensions. I would not have been disappointed if I had kept. Glad you like it and now I will order this colour for myself next order.

This was the “steel gray” felt, right?

 

[belfastboy]

This was the “steel gray” felt, right?

Yes, not a great description. I think it more like a Blue Smoke....whatever it is its a great colour.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

This started out as a very nice for its time Stetson western. The felt was thin for a western and the color is “Boeing Gray.” Robert tore it down and completely remade the hat and only reused the liner at my request. The finished hat is lighter and thinner than many modern fedoras. Excuse the few raindrops on the felt. I was planning on putting it on my flange, but I’m kind of partial to the flat brim.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

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Yes, not a great description. I think it more like a Blue Smoke....whatever it is its a great colour.

Agreed. Definitely a blue felt.

 

[Blare]

Great western weight in a smokey blue. The leather band is a great change-up from my usual ribbon. A simple hat that’s perfectly executed.

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Love it.

 

[StoryPNW]

Great western weight in a smokey blue. The leather band is a great change-up from my usual ribbon. A simple hat that’s perfectly executed.

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That is a great looking hat, in my opinion it seems kind of subtly western, not full on cowboy hat. Well done!

 

[Rmccamey]

Looks great, Brent. I like that color.

This started out as a very nice for its time Stetson western. The felt was thin for a western and the color is “Boeing Gray.” Robert tore it down and completely remade the hat and only reused the liner at my request. The finished hat is lighter and thinner than many modern fedoras. Excuse the few raindrops on the felt. I was planning on putting it on my flange, but I’m kind of partial to the flat brim.

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[Rmccamey]

Robert, do you have a flat-top block for a Gambler? I'm just thinking out loud. That grey of Brent's would be just right for me; not too dark, not too light.

 

[belfastboy]

Robert, do you have a flat-top block for a Gambler? I'm just thinking out loud. That grey of Brent's would be just right for me; not too dark, not too light.


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Which grey of Brents....the Blue Steel? (a grey/blue or a blue/grey, it can be described either way). The rain cloud is one of the Nutria felts and find them too inconsistent to risk buying them again. I am blocking a tall gambler style right now for myself as a test of the new blocks. When it gets more formed I will send you some pictures. The hat I have in mind to make is similar to your picture but with a narrower brim. Trying to replicate one Benedict Cumberbach was wearing in a period piece movie.

 

[belfastboy]

Robert, do you have a flat-top block for a Gambler? I'm just thinking out loud. That grey of Brent's would be just right for me; not too dark, not too light.


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Brent referred to it as a 'Smokey Grey' ...then that is the Millinery Warehouse rabbit felt and it is a great felt. They make up in to a very nice hat. I "experimented' with Brent's and first block it inside out, pounced it well then flipped it to rightside and pounced again. Gave it a very nice soft hand but as are 160gram felts it still have substance.

 

[Rmccamey]

Yes, that is the one. How close is it (Boeing grey, Smokey grey) to the Winchester granite?

 

[belfastboy]

Yes, that is the one. How close is it (Boeing grey, Smokey grey) to the Winchester granite?

Not at all. Mill Whse offers their own Granite which is close and a great colour. The Blue Steel of Brent's is almost a Confederate grey with perhaps a touch more blue to it. As Brent says it is either a blue hat with grey tones or a grey hat with blue tones. But to my eye the blue is just a touch stronger.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Dobbs Twenty brought back to life by Wolfbrae Hatters. Robert did a great job repairing what needed to be fixed while leaving the hat in a true vintage condition.

 

[Blare]

Dobbs Twenty brought back to life by Wolfbrae Hatters. Robert did a great job repairing what needed to be fixed while leaving the hat in a true vintage condition.

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Great looking hat