Wild Bunch hat

[litl rooster]

Pards I found this on Gunbroker, If it was a bit larger I'd be driving over to pick it up.  Ennyhooo it look like something someone here might want for their Wild Bunch persona, and the price seem plenty fair.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=196862976

[Pitspitr]

Thanks for sharing. It does look like it'd make a good Expansion Era Match hat, but one can buy brand new from coon creek for $1 less or on E-bay for about $35.

[Grigori_Storri]

Yeah I found one at an army navy store for 35 dollars it looked cheap but it was not. I took it home and gave it a quick shower and spent an evening sitting around the house with it on my head to let it dry and break in. Slapped a yellow acron cord on it and it looks great the brim warped ever so slightly but I just let it get damp again and laid it flat on kitchen table and weighed it down with some thick hard cover books. next morning it was right as rain. btw use hot water not cold.

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[Mossyrock]

I keep looking at Campaign hats for the sole purpose of screwing one up...  I want to reshape one into the hat Earnest Bornine wore in "The Wild Bunch".  That hat had CHARACTER.

[Grigori_Storri]

Now if you want to reshape a hat give it a good hot shower I mean soak it and put in on your head and reshape the crown in the mirror and wear it til it dries. I have an old stetson that I stripped the band and liner out and have soaked it and reshaped it into a good slouch hat then to a ticorn back to a quizi flat hat thought about making it into a bowler at one point but the brim would be too wide. Right now I put it back into its origional stetson form.

true way for a man to make a hat his signature is to beat it into something that is a work of art that you wear on your head and you know it is yours.

[litl rooster]

boots and hat both dip 'm in the water trough and wear them dry