Shaping Billy The Kid’s Hat

[@MikeJenner-Jones]

Can you do Wild Bill Hickok’s hat and John Wesley Hardin’s hat?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I can certainly try!

[@MikeJenner-Jones]

@ Good luck with that, partner. I love the flat telescope crowns as well as the pinch-front crowns!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Looks the part!! Nice work, Andrew the Kid.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Appreciate it, Santee! Unfortunately, I don’t think that name will stick! Haha!

[@trentroth6717]

Such an amazing hat and amazingly done I love the hat band you added it really pulls it all together

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate it, friend!

[@SeanPat1001]

Thank you very much for this breakdown on shaping hats. Billy the Kid was a prominent figure in Southern New Mexico. There’s a Billy the Kidd thrift shop in old Mesilla with a replica of that tintype that’s about 8 feet tall. The building the shop is in it was built around 1850 and was originally the courthouse in which Billy the kid was tried and sentenced to be home. Of course, that sentence was never carried out. Most people who have lived around here for a while think of him as a heroic figure. At least, the gift shop seems to be doing pretty good business. I would just say one thing. It probably would’ve been a good idea to wash your hands before putting that nice hat band on the hat. It looks like none of the black transferred but it did kind of worry me. 😂

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you! I’ve always wanted to head over there and see the Billy The Kid tributes in New Mexico! And I did! Haha! That fur felt likes to hang around a bit!

[@MilagroMadMan]

Very well done sir, I will send you pictures from the Billy the Kid museum. I go to church 8 miles from it and am in Ft Sumner weekly. Have a great week.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you, Reed! That would be lovely! Good to see you stop by!

[@bigdikannonannon152]

Billy the kid meets Billy Jack hybrid….Nice work

[@bluescatreimer]

That was really a good job you did on the hat, and the hat band really sets it off. I was hoping to see you model the hat. I enjoy your videos, the gun spinning reminds me of some I did when I was youngster.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you friend! I wore it last week for the Clint Eastwood gun spin!

[@bluescatreimer]

@@SaintAndrewTV Your welcome, Yes you did, I watched the video but didn't know it was the Billy The Kid hat. Looks good.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

@ that means a lot friend!

[@Arizona_Kid]

That is a cool and historical hat! Thanks for sharing.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Appreciate it, AK!

[@marty01957]

Good job, Andrew! Thanks for the vid!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I appreciate it, Marty!

[@Fried420]

This is a beautiful masterpiece 🤠

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I really appreciate that friend!

[@kevinroberts1888]

Nice job. Though I've never done it myself, my father used to do his own hat shaping and I remember watching him do it, it was very similar to how you were doing it. I should give it a go some time.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you and you should! It’s a very rewarding process!

[@terryholloway9930]

Good’s job Andrew Billy would have been proud

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you, Terry! I sure hope so!

[@JackFredrick-e3y]

Yo man I love this billy the kid can I ask where did you get your hat your wearing in the video

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I got it at antiques mall! It was a never worn $45 restistol!

[@mikewhite2aadvocacy172]

That is a sharp lid I must say

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you kindly!

[@alld6005]

Hello there. Good work on the hat Andrew. Say, does anyone think that the odd black hat Billy is wearing in the photo was a prop? I had read of Billy described as wearing a Mexican sugarloaf hat. Or, do folks believe that it was perhaps that telescoping type fur hat? Also, how do you like Bowlers as a western hat? Your videos are interesting. Keep up the good work!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you, friend! I’ve personally thought of that. I know that props were used and that getting your picture taken back then was a very big deal. Bowlers or derby’s were the most common hat of the era, so very good choice in terms of a western hat!

[@robertwess4556]

Very nice what brand of hat did you use for it

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you! I think it was a Restistol.

[@Docholiday188]

You need to make a doc Holliday hat🔥🔥🔥

[@SaintAndrewTV]

That’s a challenge, but I’m a willing combatant!

[@jackdorsey4850]

Nice job

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you as always, Jack!

[@jackdorsey4850]

@@SaintAndrewTV your welcome pard

[@JackFredrick-e3y]

Yo man I love this billy the kid could you eventually make a video on how to shape Micah bells hat from the game red dead redemption 2🙏

[@PRESTON-GARVEY67]

Amazing, but i think the crown should have been taller

[@feroshuskitsu]

I thought all you had to do was fall off a horse or something.

[@JackFredrick-e3y]

Yo man I love this billy the kid could you eventually make a video on how to shape Micah bells hat from the game red dead redemption 2🙏