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HarpPlayerGene

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Well, here's my new, old Stetson western. It's a weird color (burgundy) and was very small (advertised as 6-7/8 but actually 6-3/4!!) so it took some doin' to bring it up to a 7 LO. It may have been a child's hat (??) but is of very good quality dress weight felt.

I resized it, replaced the sweat band, dyed it more brown and worked the felt into an even rougher state since it had already developed a hole in a creased area. (If you can't fix it, feature it, I always say!) I allowed it to become kind of wonky even though it would cooperate fully with being shaped better. I like it this way.

**I'm not familiar with that logo style in the crown. Anyone know if this is particularly old?...
http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii79/harpplayergene/Stetson Burgundy Western/

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HarpPlayerGene

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Here's the black Stetson project with brim trim, some better blocking, dust and a jute band. No where near as fine a job as I've seen some others do on this site but it's serviceable. With my poncho, I'm now ready for Halloween!
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Orvil Newton

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The Eleven Dollar Resistol

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My first ebay hat.

The label says "Style: Dalworth, Color: Canyon, Size 7 1/8, Price 20.00" It came in what appears to be the original box and looks like it may have never been worn.

What do you think?
 

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Orvil Newton said:
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My first ebay hat.

The label says "Style: Dalworth, Color: Canyon, Size 7 1/8, Price 20.00" It came in what appears to be the original box and looks like it may have never been worn.

What do you think?

extremely smooth lid with a very nice and authentic shade of khaki on my monitor....nicer shade, in fact, than the Akubra tawny fawn colour IMHO...more towards the Aussie slouch hat colour...
 

bolthead

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Loden Dobbs....

It showed up today.....

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JT, you can have this pin, I believe it's some sort of swiss shield/crest.....shoot me a PM.

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The inside of this hat looks unworn and brand new. As you can see the original price tags states it was $85.00, a far cry from what I snagged it for....$15 and change, shipped. :D

The feather and cording are already gone and the crown has a pretty sever taper, don't know if I like that or not.....[huh]

I'm not sure what type of ribbon I'm putting on it yet either. I was thinking maybe a 7/8" silver/gray, or that 1 1/2" dark green that I used on my Bianchi......

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be posting some pics when I'm done with it......:rolleyes:
 

bolthead

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Stingy Whippet.....

I got this little Gem from our own RPeers. He had a 6 5/8 Whippet that he gotten off of OFAS, he needed the liner for a Whippet he currently had that had no liner. He had seen in the "GreyHound" Thread that I was interested in finding a Stingy Brim Whippet and I hadn't seen many before. Well he PM'd me asking if I wanted this one because he had no use for it....all I had too do was cover the shipped, he's up North across the Border. :D I was thrilled and said I'd love to have it.

When I 1st got it I took out the sweatband, which was split, but that was ok, because it was gonna have to be stretched up to a size 7. I soaked the hat in cold water and stretched it over my block, it was skin tight and I knew right away this was gonna work out just fine.......

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After it dried on there, the next day, I pealed it off.....:D and put it on to see how much more I needed to stretch it, compensating for the sweatband of course.....I then put my hat jack in it for a day. After that, I decided to give it a fuel bath, 1st time i tried this, so I thought this was a good project for it. I left it in a pail of Coleman over night & then hung it out to dry for a few hrs. The next day I tacked the sweatband back in it and gave it another bit of a stretch for good measure.....

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Then I gave it a good steaming and some crease and this is what I ended up with.....

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Thanks again Ryan for my very 1st Stingy Whippet, it is greatly appreciated. :cheers1:
 

handlebar bart

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Bolthead, what an amazing looking whippet. A lid like that could get me to join the stingy ranks. Really,really sharp. I would really like to see how that one looks on your noggin.:eusa_clap
 

bolthead

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Thanks guys.....but I really have Ryan Peers to thank for it. I love it.

Bart, I'm sure you'll be seeing me in this one alot in days to come. :D

GWD, good Luck to ya.......I've been searching for one of these for a very long time, I've never, ever seen one on ebay before. Maybe with some luck rilico may run across one down the road someday.
 

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