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Beautiful hatWorth - Walden 15X
3-1/8" RE x 5-3/4" OC. I wear this one with no dents.
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Beautiful hatWorth - Walden 15X
3-1/8" RE x 5-3/4" OC. I wear this one with no dents.
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"The Bohannon" from Revranhats.com View attachment 259172 View attachment 259173 View attachment 259174
I'm puzzled by the random whipstitching on this and some of the other hats that have shown up here lately. I'm assuming that the purpose is to make it appear more rustic, but why would an honest hat wearer whipstitch an inch of the brim this way, even on a thoroughly worn hat?
I agree though, to me, if the distressed look is the goal, the distressing on a hat just has to make sense. I don't recall of I'm remembering this adage from Adam Savage or elsewhere, but the markings should tell the story of the object. I guess I'm underestimating the number of hats that be burnt in real life?
Actual necessary stitching on my Valentine the Hatter:
Ash and a few burns on my Resistol that I use in the rain and to burn brush (sometimes at the same time). That leather band (rough finish on the inside) has bled into the hat a bit as well. Now ... how do I trademark all this wear?
Haha, Bob, when we were talking about burned hats, I completely forgot about your brush-pile-burning hats! I guess you've still got a lot of that in your future, with all the unfortunate tree damage you suffered not long ago.
We burn once a year. April usually. Just dry grass. Last year the grass was shoulder high. With in 30 seconds I knew I'm made a mistake lighting that one. Then the wind came up.
By the time an engine arrived from 3 minutes down the road we'd lost a couple of acres of grass. No big deal. The grass comes back quick from a burn. Fences not so much. We got it stopped just shy of the fence line and the neighbor's field.
Warmer than I wanted to be It scared me! No harm to my good black hat though Not some thing I want to repeat.
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I've also purchased from Mike Moore (Buckaroo Hatter in Covington Tennessee), and Tony (Tumwater Hats Tumwater Washington).
I'd let any of those three work on a hat like that.
Later
Thanks for the tip, I'd never heard of Tumwater Hats and I grew up in that area.
Tumwater is now in Colorado. You can see it the hatter @tonyb will take a commission, but he wasn’t very interested in mine. Could have just been me.
Hi Tony
How's Colorado? What part, the mountains or Western Kansas?
Mike Schroeder, now of Oklahoma.
Beautiful Aurora, the Newark of the Front Range region.
It suits me. It’s an unpretentious, generic, largely working-class suburb. We’re in a rambler/ranch/whatever you wanna call it, in a subdivision built-out in 1977, full of quite similar structures (ramblers and split-levels). It’s been here long enough that the cookie-cutter-ness of it isn’t so obvious anymore.
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