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The Conversion Corral

bond

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This is a 3x western conversion I just finished. Was pretty dirty and original sweat was dry rotted. Cleaned up the felt ,reblocked it up a size and replaced the ply ribbon with this silver belly 1 1/8" width ribbon and added matching wind cord.
No cutting on the 2 7/8 raw edge brim.
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Thanks for comments all.
Here's a western hat I converted for a fellow lounger . Hesitatingly I cut down the 3 1/2 brim per their request to 2 5/8. And although the crown is a healthy 6" I initially thought it wasn't going to look good but after putting the ribbons on the brim and crown it turned out better than I thought. View attachment 59771 View attachment 59772 View attachment 59773 View attachment 59774 View attachment 59775


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I will be sending BOND another hat for him to work his magic on very soon!
 

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Here's one that I'm just now getting around to finishing up. It was a Resistol Stagecoach that had some serious brim issues. I could only save 2 1/4 inches of the brim, and I hate stingy brims, let alone it being a black hat, which I also hate! So, I wasn't in a hurry to do anything with it. I was bored yesterday and I got around to getting it nearly completed, save for the ribbon. Here's the stingy brimmed bugger and my ribbon choice, grey 1 inch mid ribbon. I also gave the crown a nice deep Tear Drop crease with a high tight pinch....

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It came out nice. It's just that I don't like black hats or stingy brims.
 

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Here's a loungers favorite and well worn Stetson I recently resurrected for him. He wanted me to save the liner inset and incorporate that into a new silk liner. Also gave it a deep cleaning in a gas bath and replaced the sweat with a vented one. All the holes in front of the hat are for pins which he will reattach.
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