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Here's my Great Great Uncle "Dock" Boggs sometime in the early 1930's: He was a famous founder of Bluegrass. You can search youtube to hear some of his music. He was my Great Grandma's uncle. His older brother was her father. He played at family get togethers in Wise county Virginia...

Thank you so much Art, I will contact him. :)

This is a completely different hat. Thanks though. That was an Adam fedora, this is a top hat whose maker name escapes me at the moment. You do keep on monitoring the halls and stifling discussion though. ;) :rolleyes:

Well, I won an auction for a Beaver Top Hat in "excellent condition" for my daughter for christmas and the dang sweatband is almost unattached. :rage: Of course it's not reeded so I don't know what the heck to do now. It's absolutely beautiful besides that fact and the sweat looks as new...

If you had foot problems and wore a pair for a few days you'd change your mind. They help with my peripheral neuropathy. I agree they are ugly as heck though. I just don't care though as sometimes function is more important than form.

Doh, darn fat fingers. :o

Most of the mouth breathers who feel the need to open their mouths don't appreciate someone being "better" than stopping to their level.

Thank you very much Andy! That definitely eases my mind. Now to see if I can pull off a Homburg, though I rarely wear a suit-hehe.

So, I've noticed that the hat size charts are different many times. I've seen 7 1/8 described as 22 1/4 all the way to 22 1/2. Anyone have a chart that is correct and we can forget all others? Reason I'm asking is because I won a Stetson Homburg that is 7 1/8 and I usually wear a 7 1/4...

My usual response to anyone giving me crap about what I wear is to ask them if they're gay (not that there is anything wrong with that). When they say "no", I ask them why they give a damn what another man wears. I then ask them if they watch that show where gay guys dress a guy up and if...

Hey now, I wore my Adam Executive, black slacks, black dress shirt, and a pair of black crocs today while running errands. Bash them all you want but crocs are darn comfortable. Ugly yes, but the best pair of shoes I've owned in years.

Thanks, JT! Here is the promised pic of the brim binding and another showing the bow, or lack of.

I got the Adam off of Ebay from a guy in Portland, Oregon. It even has the remnants of the price tag and says McLoughlin's Dept. store on the sweat. This is the unreeded sweat that needs restitching, btw. I'll see if I can get a better pic up for you tonight.

Beautiful work Tony! I like to do the same with old warhorse rifles from the past. My hobby up until now has been to restore firearms from our past. I hope to get as good at this new hobby as I am with that one and at least half as good as you are. It is now very apparent whose brain...

Congrats and Hi to a fellow Michigan member! I'm up near Capac and also new to Fedoras but not to westerns. Any Michigan members get any work done on old or new hats at Henry the Hatter's? Just wondering about their quality. Sorry for the hijack.