The Mod Hatter

[deanglen]

Okay folks, here's the thread to post your adventures in shape shifting, ribbon replacing, brim trimming projects. If it began as one type, and now has gone through a metamorphasis in your hands, post it here so we can enjoy your handiwork. Before and after pics are desirable. Show us the majic!

Who's first?



dean

 

[RBH]

OK Dean here is my Stetson 'Wildcatter'

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Here it is as it was...

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[LEUII]

Cool. How'd you do the colour change?

 

[deanglen]

You never disappoint, Rusty! You created a sensation with that hat. Great early effort!

dean

 

[RBH]

Cool. How'd you do the colour change?

cheap camera....

really ...the first photo is the color of the hat.

 

[fatwoul]

Haha Duck and I just spent the evening coming up with the name for our society dedicated to western conversions, and then <strike>Dead</strike> Dean makes this one anyway! :rage: lol

I'm going to go ahead and create The Conversion Corral anyway, specifically for western modifications. There will be some overlap, but the name is too good to waste.

 

[Duck]

Here is mine.

1st one. Old Stetson that I have had for over 20 yrs.
Before:

After:

2nd. one. OFAS Resistol
Before:

After:

 

[RBH]

The Conversion Corral .

I LOVE IT! It will be for re-worked westerns only!
The other re-worked hats will need their own 'club'!
lol :eusa_clap

 

[RBH]

... and then Dead makes this one anyway! :rage: lol

dont get angry Fats!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Won a silverbelly Open Road off eBay a few years back, it was styled in the classic "LBJ" style, which is not a hat I like, or that looks good on me, but I knew from the FL that they could be easily converted to fedoras.

I got the hat, gave it to Hat Works in San Diego to re-do and they turned it into a quite delightful fedora. Can't find the photos I had on it. If I do find them, will post.

karol

 

[fatwoul]

dont get angry Fats!

Oh Lord now there's a priceless Freudian slip if ever I saw one.

I wasn't threatening your life, Dean. Honest. lol

I've fixed it.

 

[carter]

It's still in RBH's response.

 

[Colby Jack]

Fats...you're scaring me.... lol

 

[bolthead]

Not really a total conversion like most of the beauties here, but I guess it kinda fits in.....[huh]

 

[J.T.Marcus]

This is now the senior member of my collection. About 15 years ago, I found it at a flea market, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It was new old stock. A Bourse Cellini (Milan) fur, in a deep burgundy color. I gave the brim a slight Homburg curve. Recently. I reduced the size from 7 1/4 to 7 1/8. It's nice not to have a shim in the sweatband.

It is still a snap brim, and the crown is quite moldable. The change to brim down, and front pinch, took less than 60 seconds.

 

[bolthead]

Very nice JT, unusual color, but I like it.

 

[J.T.Marcus]

bolthead, Thanks for the compliment. I actually posted that hat just for you. Glad you liked it.

 

[Duck]

Sharp looking lid there, JT. Even if it is a stingy

 

[J.T.Marcus]

This one is exactly opposite from the conversion corral. It started out as a fedora, but I decided to try it as a cowboy hat. I changed the crown to a center dent, and turned the brim up on the sides. The wide ribbon was replaced with a black bootlace. The felt is bright red velour! Not my everyday hat.

It's a Lock & Co. (St. James St., London). Guess what it lists for, new. I had decided it would be my renaiscance faire hat. It goes well with my grey knickers and black scissor-tail coat. Last time i wore it, some guy from England told me I shouldn't hesitate to wear it ANYWHERE. Maybe next time I go to England.

 

[fatwoul]

It's a Lock & Co. (St. James St., London). Guess what it lists for, new. I had decided it would be my renaiscance faire hat. It goes well with my grey knickers and black scissor-tail coat. Last time i wore it, some guy from England told me I shouldn't hesitate to wear it ANYWHERE. Maybe next time I go to England.

You need to be careful wearing a hat like that over here. If someone sees something that bright red, with a black line in it, they might try to post a letter in it.

It's certainly a fun hat, no question, but I think maybe it looks a little small? I mean, I know it was originally a fedora, but I'm used to seeing cowboy hats with great big huge brims.

No, I've looked at it again, and it's growing on me. I think the size is OK.

Yeah looked again, and I think the bright red compensates for it being smaller than a normal western hat, because it still fills a large space with all that colour.

Very nice JT, unusual color, but I like it.

I wonder what bolthead will say when he sees this one. lol