Can This Stetson Cowboy Hat Even Be Reshaped?

[@LizzyTexBorden]

Step #1: Lucking into finding a XXXX beaver fur hat for $25.00. Every time I find something like that, they know what they have and it ain't $25.00. GOOD find. Great tip on the cardboard for the brim. I will try that the next time I fire up the tea kettle.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Rare, but they do happen every now and again! I’m sure you could stumble across one!

[@LizzyTexBorden]

@@SaintAndrewTV Yep! I will never stop looking.

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Great work

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate it, Santee!

[@MilagroMadMan]

I love these videos. You do an amazing job reshaping antique hats. Good job.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate it, Reed! Thank you!

[@anangryranger]

My hat's off to you. Well done. 🤠👍

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you very much, Wade!

[@MikeJenner-Jones]

I’m not a big fan in the Cattleman crease as I find it too common and rather modern. I usually prefer the Telescopic Vaquero/Gunfighter crease as well as the pinched front and Western telescope.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@MikeJenner-Jones]

@@SaintAndrewTV I might’ve known that you were making the Josey Wales hat.

[@BillAkinsProduction]

I feel the same way. Only I like the kettle curl on the brim like Clayton Moore's Lone Ranger hat had. I'd like to see how that kettle curl is done.

[@Biggusdickuss111]

​@@BillAkinsProductionWith a kettle... Steam.

[@Biggusdickuss111]

Debris... Pronounced Day bree Saint and you don't sound the s. Sorry but I'm ocd about that kind of stuff. 😊

[@AprilK-vs3gb]

Loved seeing the process! The C looks like the Cincinnati Reds logo. I’m with you tho-looks more like a teardrop to me!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I don’t see the C either, but it is what it is! Thanks for stopping by!

[@WilliamCollins-sh6lm]

A old tin coffee can is just the right size !!! Then comes the clothes iron to roll the crown ...

[@henrysara7716]

Thank you, St Andrew.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate you stopping by!

[@BillAkinsProduction]

I enjoyed your video on blocking that old hat very much. It is similar to the video Dusty Rogers made of his dad Roy Rogers blocking a hat for Dusty in the style that Roy liked and wore later on in his career. One difference between yours and Roy's is, that Roy molded a second rim into the top of the crown that yours doesn't have. He did say you'd need at least a 6 & 1/2 inch crown to properly do what he's doing. So a hat with less than 6 & 1/2 inches could be done with just one rim inside the top of the crown like yours is. Roy is using water instead of steam. That may work okay for him, but if anyone just uses water, afterwards they should go over it with steam because the heat from the steam re-activates the factory varnish built into the hat and helps hold the shape better and also the heat causes the microscopic fur fibers to curl and lock into each other again further helping to hold the hat's shape. Anyway, I thought you'd enjoy watching Roy do this at this link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoDMpICXh8iXh6s

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate it, Bill. I love watching the process of millinery! I’ll take a peak!

[@davidruppel1216]

Hey Andrew was the outback shaped hat used in the old west? And what is the reason for the silk lining? Great video, excellent reshaping the hat.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you. And I’m not even sure what the Outback style hat is.

[@Biggusdickuss111]

Silk helped wick sweat through from the scalp

[@RebelSandGaming]

Nice work bud and if your looking for a new custom hat try Montana Rio they make some fine stuff

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you! And now my wallet is terrified! Lol

[@JavierGalvezy]

whats the best western gun holster....you should do a videos about it...I really appreciate your videos thanks again...!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you! And I made a video on the one I have! The best I’ve ever come across! kzbin.info/www/bejne/g33WcnSdmb2rhMU

[@christiankirkenes5922]

Is there anything you can do if part of the hat crown is wearing thin?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I’d make it the flat part of the hat. The bend of the hat might make the part weaker.

[@RichDoh64]

I hardly ever wear a hat now, unless I'm out working in the Florida sun all day. Just wondering what kind of hat I would have worn if I lived during the mid eighteen hundreds. Being that my people settled in NJ. I would have probably joined the Federal Army for the steady paycheck. If I survived the civil war. Would I continue to wear a kepi cap? Thinking of buying one now.

[@RichDoh64]

Also being Irish. Would I wear a derby hat?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

You would wear whatever was practical! If you’re doing manual labor out in Florida sun, something with a wide brim!

[@Miningpastpresentfuture]

Kempis were not popular for very long after the war. Most people preferred some sort of felt hat especially in the west. A Derby works for big city as well as most western towns where there was mining or railroading that hired lots of Irish that brought their hat fashions with them. Arizona Ghost riders has a good video on hat fashions in the old west.

[@Biggusdickuss111]

Some wore hats that defined their jobs, and actually helped in their work some carried items on their heads slates, planks even.. Etc.

[@陳勝偉-m7c]

🥰❤️🤠

[@scottpeterson2692]

I'm sorry as an old west nut I have to say that I find the cattleman crease to be gauche.... I'm glad you do not subscribe to that methodology

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I’m just not a fan. You’ll never see me wear one willingly!

[@Traveller2036]

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