Headwear II

mtngunr said:
Now, THIS guy just on the way to his next victim, or just leaving his last, is obviously the one to keep an eye on.....if you can even recognize him in the crowd as he watches your every move.....look for the hat....it is your only hope...
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Here's another victim in the same area
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ANOTHER beheading photo.....what is the world coming to?.....

That is a VERY IMPRESSIVE bit of chopping for the knife....is that knife anywhere near KLVUK weight?....
 
I've taken to wearing a cowboy hat the last couple years. Made a great score in Virginia on the Reno trip. Had a heck of a hat shop there and finally found one that actually fit me. I got a huge 7 3/4" head and in some brands even larger.

I tried to take a picture of myself but failed miserably.

I wear a hearing aid on my one ear that works and rain can put me out of business in an instant so it's a good sunscreen, umbrella and makes me look like a cowboy and my hero's have always been cowboys.
 
mtngunr said:
ANOTHER beheading photo.....what is the world coming to?.....

That is a VERY IMPRESSIVE bit of chopping for the knife....is that knife anywhere near KLVUK weight?....
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This one was sold as a Bash Cutter - It also goes by the name of Bonecutter.
And it's heavier than a KLVUK - The specimen we are looking at is about 36oz.

I was on quad and that fell pine was blocking the trail. Once cut, I pulled the other end out of the way with the winch.
 
Bawanna said:
I've taken to wearing a cowboy hat the last couple years. Made a great score in Virginia on the Reno trip. Had a heck of a hat shop there and finally found one that actually fit me. I got a huge 7 3/4" head and in some brands even larger.
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Thank you for putting on back on the thread rails.

I don't think the US hat sizing is in inch unless it has to do with the diameter. So technically speaking your 7 /34 hat size means you have a 24 1/4" head. That's no small potato - as the typical US scale stops at 24 5/8.

And here an opportunity to enrich Wikipededia - No cowboy hats nor Akubras. These hats got enough posterity to be listed there.
 
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Mine is 7 3/4 (or larger) as well and i feel Bawanna's pain....which is why i normally did not wear a hat for most of life....either nothing fit or it was a rotten hat.....we are not alone as the rotten hat selection shows the good ones were there but picked over....but pretty bad when you must ask the person where the hat section is located for those with head and brain injuries...
 
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snowwolf said:
This one was sold as a Bash Cutter - It also goes by the name of Bonecutter.
And it's heavier than a KLVUK - The specimen we are looking at is about 36oz.

I was on quad and that fell pine was blocking the trail. Once cut, I pulled the other end out of the way with the winch.
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Ah, the Bash/Bone Cutter.....the handle color in the felled tree threw me off....looked as one of the latest lali gurash handles in the lighting and i was immediately thinking KLVUK
 
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Great thread and I have the Akubra/Tilley combo too, which is pretty well ideal imho. Also have a Panama for trendy summer days and a rather nice Mayser for the Christmas markets (Weihnachtsmarkt). The only hassle is flying with the Akubra - we had to buy a hat box last trip!
 
Along with the disappearing walking stick or cane for the smartly dressed gent in the USA as well as a smart gent, period, not leaving himself defenseless, as lamented in my stick thread, another and possibly THE other, major loss has been the loss of the hat along with manners on where and when, and not, to wear one...and the reason for having one in the first place....same as a cane....protection....we have become so engrained anti-establishment in this country as to be like a rebel gang showing their rugged individualism by all dressing in identical slovenliness of the anti-uniform uniform...
A great loss was the loss of the hat.....and so far back now, here, i had forgotten the very existence of what formerly was stacked in every closet....hat boxes....
 
The gent behind you at the cinema flattening the crown a bit with his cane would likely be me ...(wink!)
 
my 25+ yr old tilley is still going strong, survived a stint in saudi as well. this is the summer one. i have a dark green one with ear flaps for winter.
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yup. used to look like this:
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my jeb stuart hat. the gold & blue hat band & acorns are for ossifers.
(all gold is for general officers)

got tired of brits asking if CSA stood for "Child Support Agency", so i swapped
it for one of my subdued rank badges to hide the green holes where the old one was.
the larger feather was a casualty along the way.
(i was a Lt. Commander, O4, Major equivalent.)

me in one of my other yankee huntin' hats:

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old sepia from 1864 after ketchin' some bluebellys
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Was that Custers unit?

I just figured out something that kind of makes my day.

I seen your picture before but somehow I attached Blue Lander to it. I been going around a tellin folks what a handsome deboner fella ole Blue is when truth betold it weren't Blue attall but kronkew.

Boy do I have my work cut out for me to dispel some of the misinformation I'm spewed. Why you'd think we was on the internet or something. I got me one of them caps like your last pic there cept mine is all leather. Real comfy too. Don't wear it to often, just once in awhile.

Now that all is up in the arms over confederate flags I guess I should make a statement and wear it more often, not that I'm a rabble rouser or nuthin like that.
 
i got a deboner knife somewhere. or is that a deboning knife?

nother hat from an earlier incarnation, about 1980:
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hat fits but the jacket is a bit tight, i think it shrunk a lot. (that's my story & i'm stickin' to it.)

my extended family in alabama is part alabama blackfoot. like the ndn in josie wales, back in 1860 they considered how well the yankees treated the native americans, and declared war on the union & fought alongside the confederacy.
 
mhpreston said:
Very swish! I think I understand the Jeb Stuart connection, but you'll have to pardon my ignorance about CSA?
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the UK in general supported the Confederate States of America (CSA) during the american war between the states, which was NOT started over slavery (yankee propaganda), but over economic domination by the manufacturers of the north who wanted a monopoly on southern cotton. the UK was the south's (ie. CSA's) main external market. trhe UK was also influencing the south to get rid of slavery, which it was doing as machinery (mostly from britain) was more efficient and economical. the north (ie. the union or yankees) in their 'emancipation proclamation' did NOT end slavery. they just declared it no longer existed in the 'areas in rebellion'. thus it was STILL legal in the north until much later. the main CSA leader, Robert E. Lee had freed his slaves years before. the main Union leader, US grant owned slaves until well after the war. the north's punishment of the south for daring to be free from the industrialists resulted in the somewhat misplaced resentment of the freed slaves after the war.

anyway, during the conflict the CSA continued to trade with the UK for vital supplies, cannon. swords, knives, rifles, etc. and even warships it hoped would let them end the blockade by the union of southern ports. one ship, built in birkenhead, near liverpool, the CSN Alabama engaged in a battle it sadly lost to the USS Kearsarge in 1864 off cherbourg, france.

at the end of the war, those members of the CSA's embassy were reduced to a small remnant consulate near the port of Gloucester on the river Severn. i am the last and tho i have not been paid by the CSA government in richmond virginia since 1865, i carry on the tradition even tho at 178 yrs. old, i creak a bit. i can understand why nobody applies for visas or passport renewals, as the nasty ol' USA refuses to accept them. i do continue to supply troops to guard the consulate, even tho they are a bit furry.
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we are a equal opportunity employer. the current head of security is a rather lovely redheaded female.
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