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    Eyelets with ribbon rather than leather band?

    I think the key is to keep the eyelets out of the front dents. If you do that the hat will look just fine.
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    Long Oval Solutions: To Stretch, or go up a Size?

    I've re-shaped quite a few hats to long oval. It isn't really a stretch since the circumference doesn't change. The brim almost always needs to be reshaped as part of the process. The front and back will bend up or down more and the sides will either get a bit wavy or take on a pronounced...
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    Post New Hats Here!

    The really thin ribbons were and still are a very common treatment for western hats. Just enough to cover the sweatband stitches. They are easily removed if the owner wants a fancy hatband and easily replaced when they get all discolored by sweat and dirt. Nice find!
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    All you need is two bidders who don't actually know what they are looking at. I really loved the part where he says the hat had never been creased, then he went ahead and creased it!
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    Is there a way to search for phrases?

    That's why I said "If you happen to get a link to the old forum."
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    Is there a way to search for phrases?

    I'm still getting mixed results. Google can take for-freaking-ever to get rid of old links, even after a site is re-indexed.
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    Is there a way to search for phrases?

    If you happen to get a link to the old forum you probably won't get where you wanted to go. The thread numbers seem to have changed.
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    Can you dye a lighter hat darker?

    Alchohol-based leather dyes will most certainly change the color of your hat. I doubt the odds of getting a good overall consistent color are very good but if you need to put some permanent spots on a light colored hat they will do it.
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    All Around Hat

    I'm a person who wears a hat so it doesn't matter what else I'm wearing - there will be a hat on my head. My Open Roads and clones are my go-to hats. The big decision is whether to wear tan or silver belly and clean or not-so-clean. About the only place I won't wear an OR is to a funeral. I...
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    Reason to not trust sellers rather than hatters

    Yup.
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    I've pretty much stopped fuming about shipping charges. My bid takes the shipping cost into account so I'm really only concerned with the total - that is how much the hat costs me. My Byer-Rolnick made Sears fedora cost $7.95 - $2.00 bid plus $5.95 shipping. My Stetson Eagle was $20.95 -...
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    measuring for long oval

    Most reputable hat shops can stretch a new hat to long oval for you if you ask. If you don't have a local hat shop and need to order a hat "mail order" you are going to need to tell them you are a long oval.
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    measuring for long oval

    It is better than the more common "if you head is longer than normal it is a long oval" type of statement pretty much all of the hat vendors use but certainly not 100% accurate. There would have to be a specific ratio of length to width that would actually determine the oval but since we...
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    measuring for long oval

    I couldn't find the post in this version of the forum so here is the info pulled from google cache. "You can measure the circumference with a tailor's measure and then convert that number. Google hat sizing. The European have it right sizing the hat by circumference in Centimeters, no...
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    How long does the modern Stetson/HatCo hat last, feasibly?

    Now you guys are mixing anecdotal evidence with pure assumption. This thread is beginning to sound a lot like politics to me.
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    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Very nice. One of the Byer-Rolnick Pilgrims.
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    Then vs. Now....

    Most felt hats have at least a little bit of some kind of stiffener. Western hats are usually thicker felt and get a lot of stiffener. The stiffener doesn't last forever. Over time a hat will soften up.
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    The Brotherhood of the Thin Ribbon

    Looks as though the water proofing has become a bit weak. Great hat!
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    How long does the modern Stetson/HatCo hat last, feasibly?

    You should have read the part that was bolded: "The dyeing will leave slight variations in the final color of the felt." Akubra doesn't do a better job dying the rabbit fur, they just don't care if the color isn't even. As far as the 11% chance, the hat you had issues with and the hat I had...
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    Then vs. Now....

    Stiffening of fedoras and dress hats is nothing new. Hat Corporation of America was using shellac on fedoras in 1941. "Scientific Hat Finishing and Renovating" (1919) details several methods of stiffening hats and notes that most would not need it because the original stiffening could...

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