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WesternHatWearer

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Does anyone have any special or one of a kind hat bands that go well with westerns. Hat bands that I am familiar with are self band, rattle snake band (Mouth and rattle), horse hair and stampede strings. I have also seen some hats with ribbons as the hat band. If you have any others, would you mind sharing?
 
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Art Fawcett had some very simple leather hatbands on his Journeyman & Hitchhiker modes that I like...
I've bought some others of ebay & at local hat shops...made a few myself too
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T Jones

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Does anyone have any special or one of a kind hat bands that go well with westerns. Hat bands that I am familiar with are self band, rattle snake band (Mouth and rattle), horse hair and stampede strings. I have also seen some hats with ribbons as the hat band. If you have any others, would you mind sharing?

For Westerns, as far as ribbons go, I prefer plain thin ribbons and also ply ribbons from thin to no wider than a mid-ribbon, keeping the work clean and simple. Here's a couple of Stagecoaches that I reblocked and put new ribbons on.

This one's a thin ribbon with a Campaign style bow...I also like tall crowns with Center Dents on my Westerns

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This one has a 6 ply mid-ribbon with a traditional bow...(on ribbons like this I like to keep the bow work simple)

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...and I also like a traditional Double Bows on my fedoras, again, keeping the bow work clean and simple

Stetson Nutria conversion

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Resistol conversion,

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WesternHatWearer

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GTDean and T. Jones, all these/ those hats look very nice. As for ribbons on westerns I prefer the tails to have a bit of length, similar to one TJ posted.

I do not currently own any westerns with ribbon work but I am checking them out when I come across them. All of the felt hats I own have self bands. The one straw I own has a leather band.

Perhaps, if I stumble across a nice and eye catching hat band I may switch things up. :cool:
 
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T Jones

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GTDean and T. Jones, all these/ those hats look very nice. As for ribbons on westerns I prefer the tails to have a bit of length, similar to one TJ posted.

I do not currently own any westerns with ribbon work but I am checking them out when I come across them. All of the felt hats I own have self bands. The one straw I own has a leather band.

Perhaps, if I stumble across a nice and eye catching hat band I may switch things up. :cool:

There's a lot of nice choices out there for Western hat bands. For this unknown Western I'm working now I think I'm going to go with this 3 ply ribbon and a simple knot, which is also common on Westerns...All I have to do is trim the tails a little and then sew it on. My thanks to DOGMAN for the ribbon

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T Jones

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Decisions, decisions...sometimes it's better to have fewer choices than to have many choices...Here's a leather hat band with conches that John Galt gave me. Also goes very well with Westerns. Like gt dean suggested, buy a few leather ones and change up the look every now and then...

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WesternHatWearer

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I can look at leather hat bands tomorrow. I will have sometime to take a look at them. Perhaps I may walk away with something new to try out.
 

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