Recent content by barrowjh

carousselvic - no, just repeating what I have read in other threads here, and for that matter, probably could not locate that thread.

I believe Fruno and Cane Rod are most likely correct. I have an Open Road with the same (or very similar) sweatband. Stetson went to rectangular size tags in 1960, so we can be fairly confident this hat was made before 1960.

I like that semi-calado FedOregon! VERY nice! Yes, get that blocked/finished properly with a soft leather sweatband and your initials in it, and have it done by a hatter that will finish it on a band-block to match your head shape, such as Art Fawcett. Alanfgag, I feel your pain. Only one...

I cannot stand it when my hat is pushing on the hair at the top of my crown, so I prefer the taller crowns. For quite a few hats I have to roll the back higher, taking some of the 'rake' out of it, to get the crown of the hat to stay off the crown of my noggin. Some of my panamas look like a...

That is an unusual OR. Strange to see the metal stamp but we have never seen the advertisement. Somehow it didn't stick, maybe it was one hat that was itself trying to wear too many hats, trying to be too many things. There was a need for a less-formal and lightweight fedora, and at a $5...

Acting respectable in public, or most of us were. This is the day I got . . busted . . for dog whispering.

Very nice! Like the rust, I thought it was the whiskey color. You visited TN one time sporting a similar hat in whiskey with a green ribbon, I think, with the ventilation pattern on the sides. You do like these colors. OOps, wrong memory on the ribbon color. Found the pic - From the back...

I will certainly agree that Gomez Hat Co is local (Moreno) and a fair starting point. Up the coast in Oregon is Art Fawcett / Vintage Silhouettes. Brent Black is a reference point also.

A Phoenix Refurb on the Road - San Diego A trip to see our granddaughters - all three pics do not show off the nice bowtie ribbon treatment by Rick, but it is the hat he refurbished only a few months ago - In Legoland CA, with Albert Einstein (and Marissa, Emma, & Hannah L to R) With son...

The hat arrived and the band is probably a remnant of a 1950s era bling woman's belt. My wife recognized it right away and pointed me to two similar remnants that were crafted into decoration on a stuffed kitty here. The little medallions are on a stretchy sort of fabric. So, I will not be...

Thank you, Hurricane Jack, appreciate the information, maybe it will save me from ruining a good hat.

that is not so likely, but it appears to be nicely done, whatever it was made from. Unless that seller put some effort into that band - which seems unlikely - it does not appear to be tarnished or dull. As I fear - I might be foolish on this one.

I have visited there (Bernie Utz), and it is a tiny shop - but it is real, genuine survivor of the 1930s I think. It was sort of a pilgrimage visit. I much rather enjoy visiting Mike Moore's Buckaroo Hatters a half-block off the square in Covington, TN, and I would love to visit Art Fawcett's...

I bid on this for the hatband - http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-Corral-West-5X-beaver-felt-cowboy-hat-7-1-2-/122393946073?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&nma=true&si=LpplUBmOulCsjD%2Fqe5BH1phSJWk%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc Like most of my ebay scores in recent times, when it...

The curled brim edge is the only difference I see.