Good Morning folks.. Any "Cowboy's/Cowgirl's" want to show their hats? I'd like to see what you have and how it's curledRon
The hat is nice....but WOW.....that hatband is the winner!!!
Thanks guys. The band width is perfect for the crown height & the contrast is just about right. It's the small 15/0 beads & it's a busy pattern. I like the combination a lot.
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Nice save! Glad to see you didn't cut the brim. Would like to see pics of the sweat embossing & liner, & build info on the back side of the sweat.Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.
So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.
The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.
This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
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and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
Great job on that one! The band looks perfect on it!Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.
So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.
The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.
This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
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and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
Nice one! And I agree with the rest of the fellas....that band is sublime
Nice work!Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.
So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.
The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.
This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
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and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
That is nice! I like the older vented straws. Looks like a good day for the kids!J.C. Penny straw from a few decades ago went to the lake with me today.
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Love it Jack.
Excellent M.Here's an O'Farrell I picked up from an estate sale. It was crammed onto a closet shelf, smashed, dirty, and neglected, and hardly looked like it had any life left in it. But I knew from the fur felt, sweat band, and liner that this was a diamond in the rough. This one is from the old Durango shop.
So I gave it the Roy Rogers soaking treatment along with a good scrubbing of shampoo, set it up with string and let it dry to about 90%. Then I put it on my antique wooden hat block and let it finish drying, then gave it some steam for final shaping.
The hat band came from a shop in Marathon, Tx and has been waiting for the right hat for about 10 years. Once I had the O'Farrell blocked and ready the band went on with some light stitching to hold it in place.
This turned out to be an awesome hat!
Here's a photo of the drying process.
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and here's the finished hat. I changed up the crown crease since I already had several 'gus' creased hats and flattened the brim a bit for more sun shade.
Thanks DD. And yeah, it was a great day for the kids.
Phenomenal Jack. Who made the band?
She is Cherokee living in TN but I can't recall her name at the moment. She did a great job with it.
Ok, I think I may have gotten some bands from her too, on Ebay. THat one's killer!
