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Western, anyone?

mikegray660

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very nice hat!!



Not a Tom Mix but a reposting of this Knox Stagecoach refurb that everyone's already seen. It's a pretty big hat with a 7 inch open crown and a 4 1/2 inch brim with a kettle curl...

Is there a way to post you tube videos from our phones rather than from our desk computers? I used to be able to post pictures from "Post Image" and videos from YouTube from my phone but not anymore.
 
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Out of curiosity Brent, how many hats do you have? LoL

It fluctuates. I’d say around 300, but only about 75 are in what I consider to be my permanent collection. The others are either hats I bought with the intention of reselling them, hats I bought just to satisfy my curiosity, or hats that I bought thinking they would fill a niche but haven’t won me over. I buy, sell, and trade a lot of hats. My goal keeps changing, but I’d like to get it down to 50 felt hats and 10 “straw” hats.
 

Rmccamey

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Brent's inventory follows the Dow Jones Industrial Average - up one day, down the next :)

Out of curiosity Brent, how many hats do you have? LoL

It fluctuates. I’d say around 300, but only about 75 are in what I consider to be my permanent collection. The others are either hats I bought with the intention of reselling them, hats I bought just to satisfy my curiosity, or hats that I bought thinking they would fill a niche but haven’t won me over. I buy, sell, and trade a lot of hats. My goal keeps changing, but I’d like to get it down to 50 felt hats and 10 “straw” hats.
 
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How did you get interested in hats? Where do you store them all?

Honestly, they are all over the house. Each of my “core collection” hats have a box and all but maybe eight are kept in their boxes. Those eight are my regular everyday hats. The transient hats are all over: my trunk, my garage, in a guest bedroom, and in all sorts of other places.

This is a sitting room not used for much with a pile of hats that recently arrived and are mostly waiting to be brushed, steamed, shaped, and listed on eBay:

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One Drop

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Honestly, they are all over the house. Each of my “core collection” hats have a box and all but maybe eight are kept in their boxes. Those eight are my regular everyday hats. The transient hats are all over: my trunk, my garage, in a guest bedroom, and in all sorts of other places.

This is a sitting room not used for much with a pile of hats that recently arrived and are mostly waiting to be brushed, steamed, shaped, and listed on eBay:

What is your eBay handle, Brent (assuming you want to share it, if not, please ignore this post !) ?
 
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Honestly, they are all over the house. Each of my “core collection” hats have a box and all but maybe eight are kept in their boxes. Those eight are my regular everyday hats. The transient hats are all over: my trunk, my garage, in a guest bedroom, and in all sorts of other places.

This is a sitting room not used for much with a pile of hats that recently arrived and are mostly waiting to be brushed, steamed, shaped, and listed on eBay:

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That has got to be the most glorious illustration of full swing HAS I've ever seen. Love it.
 

Steve1857

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Honestly, they are all over the house. Each of my “core collection” hats have a box and all but maybe eight are kept in their boxes. Those eight are my regular everyday hats. The transient hats are all over: my trunk, my garage, in a guest bedroom, and in all sorts of other places.

This is a sitting room not used for much with a pile of hats that recently arrived and are mostly waiting to be brushed, steamed, shaped, and listed on eBay:

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Glad to see that photo, Brent. Now I don't feel so bad about my all over the place hats.
 

Yamahana

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Honestly, they are all over the house. Each of my “core collection” hats have a box and all but maybe eight are kept in their boxes. Those eight are my regular everyday hats. The transient hats are all over: my trunk, my garage, in a guest bedroom, and in all sorts of other places.

This is a sitting room not used for much with a pile of hats that recently arrived and are mostly waiting to be brushed, steamed, shaped, and listed on eBay:

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Is it okay if I show this picture to my wife? I doubt if it’ll make any difference tho.:cool:
 
Is it okay if I show this picture to my wife? I doubt if it’ll make any difference tho.:cool:
My wife would look and just think I snapped a picture of the downstairs............AND ASK ME "why do you need a picture of your piles like that?"......and to make sure I cleaned it up before we had people over......:oops::rolleyes:
 

AbbaDatDeHat

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PIKERS!!!....you gave me a first cup of coffee belly laugh Brent and a stroll down memory lane with that one.
37 yrs ago when i relocated to this West Virginia mecca called Morgantown, home of the mighty West Virginia Mountaineers, throwback hippie town, always in the top few US college party towns, the locals referred to Pikers as the great unwashed who lived out in the beyond on Kingwood Pike a narrow serpentine road that took you through a part of scenic almost heaven in a drive that took forever to get nowhere. Along the way you’d be transported back in time where the remnants of hard working coal miners home’s and homesteads peaked out from ever encroaching nature, many still occupied. Electric lines were non-existant then and sparse today.
I’d never heard the term Piker except here. Maybe Cali piker’s are different.
Funny thing is that now that whole area is a prime goldmine for development being so close yet so far away from the towneys.
Karma with $$$$
B
Ps: hat
A virginal snow white Last Drop ORish Stetson with nary a mark.
A Christmas gift kindly from...well you, Brent and Max.
Thank you my friends.
B

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AbbaDatDeHat

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Why isn't it an OR? My brother lives in Follansby WV, how's the local economy going? I haven't been back since 2010. I don't know Piker, but I know Hoopy. LoL
Hoppy...i moved into an apartment in 86’, site unseen relocating from Indianapolis, called to get the gas or electric turned on. The person on the phone said “oh, you live in Hoppy’s old apartment”.
I was dumbfounded, who the heck is Hoopy and how the heck did they know i got his apartment??
Welcome to Mountaineer Country, Bowen.
Hoopy’s still announcing the Eeers, football still rules WV and i’m not starving so prob the same as 2010 but different Eeers. Plus i’m the only guy around with any good hats it seems.

Hat doesn’t say OR so not an OR.
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ILB Frank

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PIKERS!!!....you gave me a first cup of coffee belly laugh Brent and a stroll down memory lane with that one.
37 yrs ago when i relocated to this West Virginia mecca called Morgantown, home of the mighty West Virginia Mountaineers, throwback hippie town, always in the top few US college party towns, the locals referred to Pikers as the great unwashed who lived out in the beyond on Kingwood Pike a narrow serpentine road that took you through a part of scenic almost heaven in a drive that took forever to get nowhere. Along the way you’d be transported back in time where the remnants of hard working coal miners home’s and homesteads peaked out from ever encroaching nature, many still occupied. Electric lines were non-existant then and sparse today.
I’d never heard the term Piker except here. Maybe Cali piker’s are different.
Funny thing is that now that whole area is a prime goldmine for development being so close yet so far away from the towneys.
Karma with $$$$
B
Ps: hat
A virginal snow white Last Drop ORish Stetson with nary a mark.
A Christmas gift kindly from...well you, Brent and Max.
Thank you my friends.
B

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I spent a year in Morgantown in 08-09 working the Marcellus Shale project. They sure did take it literally when someone said, "It's time to fire up the couch!"

(Crowd scene included to keep the post on topic of Western hat. ;))
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Why isn't it an OR?
Hat doesn’t say OR so not an OR.

And the ribbon is a 3-cord and not a thin grosgrain. But mostly because it's not marked on the sweat (or later the factory tag). Doesn't take away from the hat IMHO -- I love this one! I can't have one like it though as it would not stay white.
 
Messages
18,915
Location
Central California
PIKERS!!!....you gave me a first cup of coffee belly laugh Brent and a stroll down memory lane with that one.
37 yrs ago when i relocated to this West Virginia mecca called Morgantown, home of the mighty West Virginia Mountaineers, throwback hippie town, always in the top few US college party towns, the locals referred to Pikers as the great unwashed who lived out in the beyond on Kingwood Pike a narrow serpentine road that took you through a part of scenic almost heaven in a drive that took forever to get nowhere. Along the way you’d be transported back in time where the remnants of hard working coal miners home’s and homesteads peaked out from ever encroaching nature, many still occupied. Electric lines were non-existant then and sparse today.
I’d never heard the term Piker except here. Maybe Cali piker’s are different.
Funny thing is that now that whole area is a prime goldmine for development being so close yet so far away from the towneys.
Karma with $$$$
B
Ps: hat
A virginal snow white Last Drop ORish Stetson with nary a mark.
A Christmas gift kindly from...well you, Brent and Max.
Thank you my friends.
B

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Love the WV stories. I’m terrified that in retirement I won’t be able to escape the California gravitational pull…proximity to family weighs heavily….


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