I sew all of my brim bindings by hand. Like Robert said, it takes a good level of patience and it's slow and back breaking work. Magnifying hobby glasses really help, and you have more control over where you put your stitches. With that said, I do have a nice sewing machine and if I was better...
Thank you Blare. I certainly hope so too, and I can use all the prayers I can get. In the meantime I have an appointment with pain management on the 27th. Needless to say I was none too happy having to wait that long . Especially since this pain is so unbearable. The price of getting older, I...
Thank you buddy. This pain is unbearable and never ending, no matter the amount of meds and steroid shots I take. At this point I'm desperate for relief, (just so I can get back to building and restoring hats for folks)! ;) And prayers are welcome!
Hey there Randall! I'm not doing too much of anything right now. My back is still messed up and no amount of medication or steroid shots seem to be helping. I'm leaning now towards surgery to try and finally get some relief. Other than that everything else is doing well on my end. Glad to hear...
Thank you Blare! I'm glad I decided against putting it in the scrap pile. As the scripture says, "‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone." Too nice to toss aside. In fact, I'd like to find more of these Banderas.
Thank you buddy! Much appreciated. I was just thinking about you yesterday and was going to send you a pm to see how you doing. So how are things going with you?Hope all is well with you and your family. We haven't talked in a while.
I did a conversion on this Bandera Western sometime back and wasn't too pleased with it. it was a small hat that I blocked up in size on a wide shoulderd and straight sided block. Needless to say the block type took a lot of material from the brim and moved it onto the crown. So there went my...
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