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My REAL CLOSE second favorite hat.................
You could had asked if any of us had any experience with jaxonbilt hats, not if they could make you oneOh, I am calling them tomorrow I just wanted to basically know if anyone had anything custom made from them and if so how they liked what they had made.................
You could had asked if any of us had any experience with jaxonbilt hats, not if they could make you one
I have a Jaxonbilt;can't imagine that you won't be pleased.
I don't even see the Justified hat on the Baron website any more.
Maybe copyright?I'm sure if I pay their prices they would be willing to make one. Still kinda weird why they don't advertise them...............
Great job on your tribute hat!I have the Jaxonbilt Justified. It is a nice hat but if you get it as standard you will be disappointed, it's far from 100% accurate. Definitely worth asking if you can send a bunch of photos to work from because the quality is great, but you will need to be very specific about what you want. I also have the Knudsen Justified, which is just a Stetson reshaped. A little more accurate than the Jaxonbilt on first glance but nothing you couldn't do yourself with a bit of time and patience, plus the crown is too low and mine developed a serious taper after getting wet.
In terms of crown and brim measurements, I have burnt through a bunch of cheap used Stetsons experimenting and have concluded that the crown needs to be somewhere around 4 1/4" front and 5" center. Brim width all depends on the era you are going for. My current preference is seasons 2-4, which is a 3 1/4" brim, like this:
Season 5 (your first picture) I believe kept the same brim but season 6 (second picture) would be 3 1/2". Obviously shape plays a part in how it appears but it definitely grew on the last season.
As I think I've said before, the best result I've found is getting a stock Stetson 5X in ranch tan (I think the code is COWB-R), which you can easily pick up on Ebay for under $100 most of the time, and spend a bit of time trimming and reshaping to suit what you want. I was aiming for the style above and managed this quite easily: