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Happy International Pipe-Smoking Day folks! Cornell & Diehl's Bourbon Bleu for me this evening.

Price reduced - $250 plus shipping. A bargain for one of Art's 100% beaver masterpieces.

Here is mine; granite beaver. David made it a few years ago.

Thank you. Most of my hats are of the lighter colors and the few darker felts I have handled did not bleed all over my hands... well at least not as much as this one did. And that is good advice about having separate brushes and sponges for dark and light felts.

I fairly recently received a Premier Strat open crown in the sage color. I like the color and the contrasting brown/copper binding. The sweatband and liner seem to be a little off-centered (see photos), but it didn't bother me enough to send it back. Question - when I steamed the crown to bash...

DH - I might be interested; message sent.

Someone got a good deal on an antique hat stretcher. Was it anybody here? https://www.ebay.com/itm/224310457170?ul_noapp=true

RudyN, I sometimes combine my bike ride with pipe smoking...

Art Fawcett - Vintage Silhouettes midnight blue stingy brim. Currently for sale in the classifieds. Somewhere between 7 1/4 and 7 3/8 size.

I will consider reasonable offers.

C&D's Opening Night in a Peterson prince.

The store at the LBJ Library bills the hat as "LBJ's Open Road Resistol Hat." https://www.lbjstore.com/all-the-way-with-lbj-lbjs-open-road-resistol-hat.html By the way, the Johnson family friend I consulted with was the son of the architect of the LBJ Library.

I don't have any information or documentation about Resistol's "LBJ" or "Lyndon B." models. I imagine they were based on Resistol's "San Antonio," but again I have no direct evidence of such. On a side note, I was able to discuss the Resistol/Stetson question with a long-time family friend of...

A mixture of a couple of C&D Virginia blends... Carolina red flake and Opening Night

Price reduced - $275