It sure is, Randy. Those colors do pop. I think Brent did a real good job on these color choices. The gray ribbon is a vintage French silk grosgrain and the brim binding is also a vintage French silk ribbon in "Dusty Blue Periwinkle". I added some of that periwinkle as an accent color to the bow keeper and also made a sweatband bow out of it too. Brent did good on this one.
I had a little down time waiting for materials so I was able to finally finish my custom Western that I started about 6 weeks ago or so. The color is Carbon Steel. From start to finish in pictures:
The open crown on this is 6 inches. I trimmed the brim to 3 1/2 inches in proportion to the crown height. Sweat band is sewn in.
I went with a Cattleman crease and a curled Western brim. I chose a black 3/8 ribbon with an OR style bow.
Choosing between a couple of Stetson liners that I salvaged to go into this hat until I can come up with some of my own.
New Sweat and sweat band bow that I made from the black 3/8 ribbon I used on the hat. Liner is in.
All put together.
...and now I'm back to work finishing up on a previous custom that I started.
Thank you Randy! Much appreciated!
If you want to sew your own liners I have templates for all the different sizes that I can send to you.I had a little down time waiting for materials so I was able to finally finish my custom Western that I started about 6 weeks ago or so. The color is Carbon Steel. From start to finish in pictures:
The open crown on this is 6 inches. I trimmed the brim to 3 1/2 inches in proportion to the crown height. Sweat band is sewn in.
I went with a Cattleman crease and a curled Western brim. I chose a black 3/8 ribbon with an OR style bow.
Choosing between a couple of Stetson liners that I salvaged to go into this hat until I can come up with some of my own.
New Sweat and sweat band bow that I made from the black 3/8 ribbon I used on the hat. Liner is in.
All put together.
...and now I'm back to work finishing up on a previous custom that I started.
Thank you Robert! I'd definitely like to try that. I can sure use them. Thank you.
Thank you Rusty! I appreciate that!
That's a nice one Bob. It's one of my favorite Western styles too. I see the mothing but from the pictures it doesn't look like any of it went through. It still looks like a solid hat on my end.
I had the same thought. It looks like many of the nibbles could be sanded out.
Both, the FEPSA rabbit and the FEPSA beaver, are amazing felts. I hated letting that FEPSA blue bunny go. I wasn't done squeezing it!
FEPSA is close to opening their own e commerce site where we can buy direct from them I am hoping the price comes down to a more reasonable level.
That would be nice. Yeah, hopefully those prices will go down when they start their e commerce site. Everything from groceries to gas is just too high these days.
I don't wear mine often enough but I think chocolate brown is my favorite color.
