Hats & Knives

[Horsewright]

Couple more Sunbody hats and a couple more Horsewright knives. Part of my doctorin' crew at our last branding.

Lucia on the left is sporting a Coyote with Osage Orange in a Horizontal sheath. We made her floral carved belt and her chinks (leggings) too. Cara has a Gordo handled in mammoth tooth in a Horsewright Beltless sheath with oak tooling. Made her armitas style shotgun chaps there from water buffalo leather.

My wife Nichole is wearing her black felt, a custom, from Mackey Hats. She has a Horsewright Poco knife in a Gordo sheath on her Horsewright Water buffalo belt. She was doing the doctoring and the other gals were assisting. In wet years, its not to uncommon to get a wart/ringworm/fungal outbreak on some of em. Scrape with a piece of wood and wipe down with iodine. Ya try not to spread it by using a new piece of wood for each one doctored. Nichole uses knife scales of different woods that I cut up and decide they're kinda boring so not going on a knife. Couple of weeks later all gone.

 

[Horsewright]

Horsewright
Very cool, good to see a young person with such great work ethic. And kudos to her for adopting a BLM mustang,that's allot of work and dedication. As this thread pertains to hats, do you know if her feather has a meaning? I wear a feather on mine, I found out when I was 18 that who I'd been led to believe was my grandfather was not. That my Dads real father was full blood Apache. Though not raised with any native beliefs, I wear a feather to honor that a part of me carries that blood.

I don't know if there is any significance to the feather or not. Very cool on your part wearing the feather.

 

[mitch13]

I don't have a beaver felt Stetson.
I have a buffalo felt 1

 

[Prester John]

I don't have a beaver felt Stetson.
I have a buffalo felt 1

 

[Ripcord 82]

I don't have a beaver felt Stetson.
I have a buffalo felt 1

I like it! Down right cool.

 

[mitch13]

I like it! Down right cool.

Thanks mate
Sretsons are hard to find here at a good price. I find a lot of hats on the secondry market.
Did you know when hats were everyday wear, stetson brand hats used to be made under license here in Australia for the Australian market.
Cheers
Mitch

 

[Ripcord 82]

Thanks mate
Sretsons are hard to find here at a good price. I find a lot of hats on the secondry market.
Did you know when hats were everyday wear, stetson brand hats used to be made under license here in Australia for the Australian market.
Cheers
Mitch

No kidding, that's great info. I am surrounded with about 5 different Akubras in my hat collection , purchased from David Morgan. Now there is a hat! I like that they are light weight and really great when it comes to shedding the rain off that rabbit felt.

 

[screened porch]

"When I call M. Gil Gabois at the French Foreign Legion and tell him I have a sixty-two year old lawyer who wants to be a legionary, his first question is not going to be, 'Does he have his own hat?'".

I've bought I think one used hat in my life. At size 7&7/8, I've stopped trying on even the huge-looking ones.

 

[Ripcord 82]

Stormy Kromer, Green River fish knife, and a mapcase full of DeLorme atlases.

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Got one just like that. I'll post a picture in a new post.

 

[Ripcord 82]

Here's my Stormy with my Green River.

 

[screened porch]

Man, I remember when the Akubra hats cost about as much as the hatbands do now.

 

[Ripcord 82]

Man, I remember when the Akubra hats cost about as much as the hatbands do now.

At 72 I am to young to remember that.

 

[Horsewright]

Nichole, my wife, putting the strings on some finished knives:

Lots of knives:

 

[Henry Beige]

Here's my Stormy with my Green River.

Where do you live, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or the UP?

 

[Ripcord 82]

Where do you live, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or the UP?

I live in NE Ohio, sorta but wish I lived somewhere else. Montana would work after seeing what I seen when we packed in the Bob Marshall on horseback some years ago. All in all, I guess I could be in worse places, at least we have rodeos and bull riding around here with plenty of roping arenas to keep the wife and I happy.

 

[screened porch]

At 72 I am to young to remember that.

At 62 maybe I'm using some imagination.

 

[Henry Beige]

I live in NE Ohio, sorta but wish I lived somewhere else. Montana would work after seeing what I seen when we packed in the Bob Marshall on horseback some years ago. All in all, I guess I could be in worse places, at least we have rodeos and bull riding around here with plenty of roping arenas to keep the wife and I happy.

When I think Of Stormy Kromer, I think of the Upper Midwest. When I think of NE Ohio, I think of Amish country, taverns serving pickled tongue sandwiches, and Mooney Warther’s knives. My pops hailed from Dover, so I have spent some time around there.

 

[Horsewright]

Sunbody and knives.

Stormy Kromers ARE the winter hat here in the wild, wild west. Grinding knives.

Feeding.

Everybody thinks of Cali as bikinis and palm trees....not so much our part.

 

[Ripcord 82]

Sunbody and knives.

Stormy Kromers ARE the winter hat here in the wild, wild west. Grinding knives.

Feeding.

Everybody thinks of Cali as bikinis and palm trees....not so much our part.

Oh wow,very nice pictures but makes me sad when I think of my old rope horse that I no longer have. Best horse I ever had.

 

[BigKurtHaze]