Hat Question

[Delmonico]

So, a typical day at the KVC range.

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Yeah, but this picture is up at Pitspiter's place by Sargent, it's worse up there on his hill, it's a lot higher and no trees around for miles.

I remember though down at the KVC range in 2005 at the Muster when Silver Creek Slim asked if the vind always blows like that in Kansas.  I of course told him "no" sometimes it gets bad.

[Atrain]

Del where you from talking about Kansas that way. Been in Ks all my life and my hat stays on my head.   We are in the baddest town in Ks also.  Just had our 140th anniversary celebration. I could say my name is Brown but its not. 

[GunClick Rick]

 I only fixed it a little

[ol coot]

Del where you from talking about Kansas that way. Been in Ks all my life and my hat stays on my head.   We are in the baddest town in Ks also.  Just had our 140th anniversary celebration. I could say my name is Brown but its not.  

Atrain,
I did live in Caldwell KS. Sumner county, and my name is Brown.
and I lived on the west side of the tracks on Arapaho.
The ol Coot

[Marshal Deadwood]

Atrain, nice job on the hats !

[Delmonico]

Tis funny, since the last "expert" has showed up saying to soak hats and not steam them, I've steamed and shaped several dozen, all customers happy and no ruined hats.  I've done hundreds since this thread first popped up.  Somehow I find that amusing in a weird way, even funnier the only other person who does it for a living says the same thing.   

[buffalo bill]

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even funnier the only other person who does it for a living says the same thing.   

   Uh, that would be me. Hey Del, I have a PRCA rodeo coming to town. I bet I shape over 100 hats in the next 2 weeks. Many of them will be old and probably not cleaned or worn since last year. Do you want to come up and help out? I promise to do all of the hats that were left in hot cars or laying on a shelf crown up forever if you do all of the hats that were soaked in water to "shape" them. What do you say?

"SCOUTIN' for SHAGGIES"

BUFFALO BILL

[Delmonico]

   Uh, that would be me. Hey Del, I have a PRCA rodeo coming to town. I bet I shape over 100 hats in the next 2 weeks. Many of them will be old and probably not cleaned or worn since last year. Do you want to come up and help out? I promise to do all of the hats that were left in hot cars or laying on a shelf crown up forever if you do all of the hats that were soaked in water to "shape" them. What do you say?

"SCOUTIN' for SHAGGIES"

BUFFALO BILL

Nope, you can do all those, I get my share of them.  You want to try and fix the wreck of hats I get where they got soft and some put sugar water, hair spray or spray starch on them.

One good thing I've noticed, most these hat wrecks only buy cheap hats anyway.  The ones that buy the Restiol Black Gold or Rand's or similar quality hats have enough sense to not wreck them doing things like that.  Although we both know a lot of them get used hard and don't just stay in a box in the closet. 

Hey have you been doing any of those modern squared fronts where they wanted them out to 8 inches in width.  I've been doing some of those, Terry had to stop at the drugstore on the way to work one day and buy us a couple of 12" rulers, those 6 inch ones the hat companies give away just wern't long enough sometimes.