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It's that red roan/Palomino look that I like. Great hat!It was somehow dyed giving what I could call the 'Palomino' horse look.
It's that red roan/Palomino look that I like. Great hat!It was somehow dyed giving what I could call the 'Palomino' horse look.
The clay-alike felt depends on finish and shellac amount. Interesting sweat seam.So I finally got around to purchasing that Dorer's pure beaver hat. This past weekend I took the one and a half hour drive to Waco, Tx for a mountain biking day trip and scooped up the hat while I was in town. It was, as I suspected, an ex-western horse competition hat. My best guess is cutting horse competition which is big here in Texas. The ranch I work on breeds and trains performance cutting horses of the quarter horse variety. Reason I think it was used in this capacity is the slight make up residue on the front of the sweat band and the crease the previous owner had on it. The crease is called a cutter crease, I've also heard it called an "association" shape on the western horse scene.
Custom revamp by Tom Gomez. American Hat Co. 4 inch with 1/4 inch Kettle Curl. New ribbon and Fedora bashed 6 inch crown.
I have to give a +1 on this.It's that red roan/Palomino look that I like. Great hat!
The clay-alike felt depends on finish and shellac amount. Interesting sweat seam.
The shovel brim shape is a not so I hope you got rid of it. Otherwise It looks a nice hat.
The leather seam treatment is Dorer's signature Joao . And AlexTheApache is a shovel guy . Dora makes really nice Hats . Bama has one .
Interesting.Dorer stitches sweats together with rawhide lace (might be some other leather)
I wonder if his bodies are Fespa sourced as they seem different than many others. Bailey 100% beaver hats are very similar, maybe the same, as I have 2 100% beaver black Baileys and two Dorer black 100% beavers and they feel the same to me. Not like like my Stetson and Resistol beavers.
I sort of jokingly figure some beavers are butt cheek hairs, arm pit hairs, back of the leg hairs, etc. Then there is the belly hair. I figure beaver paw hair is already pounced, at least if it is from the mean attack beavers that jump the other ones.
A Dobbs... a rebranded 3x beaver Resistol under the name of Dobbs West.
Color is Granite gray and it have green tones on it. Need to take pictures of direct sunlight.
Size is 7 1/4 but it does not fit me. Looks more to be a 7 1/8. It had foam foam inside the sweatband to reduce size, so when I removed it, all fragile paper was ripped.
Well I thought wearing spurs on stage would be a little pretentious, haha. Actually these were my typical riding duds that I wore on stage at times. Whenever folks would refer to them as my "outfit", I would reply--it's not an "outfit" it's what I wear, just my regular clothes!@Stringmaster .........Yep got almost the whole thing going.....Nice hat, Fancy Wild rag, vest, chinks, riding heel boots, you could almost get away with some spurs too.....Don't know if you could play very well in some cuffs though.......
Looks good !!
Latigo
Doc, I'll look forward to your opinions & report on the Grizz.
Got out this past weekend for a cowboy shoot with the boys and wore the Grizz. For my purpose it's a good fit, literally and figuratively. Grizz uses old-time methods and it seems period to me because of that, at least externally. It doesn't have the finish you would get from most modern hat makers; for instance some scorching in spots on the pencil curl from the hot iron, and it has a hand formed crown, not a blocked shape. It's a beaver fur blend felt and per his site it's ~ 6X on the old 10X scale and the texture looks and feels beaver. It's what I would consider cowboy stiff, not a soft or easily reworkable crown or brim. It fits well from the measurements I sent him. All of these things I find positive about the hat.