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To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com
Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #422
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hist_text-digest Sunday, December 12 1999 Volume 01 : Number 422
In this issue:
-áááááá MtMan-List: Blocking wool hats
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: Blocking wool hats
-áááááá MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
-áááááá MtMan-List: brain tan...
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: brain tan...
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: brain tan...
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
-áááááá MtMan-List: what it is?
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:19:37 EST
From: Iambrainey@aol.com
Subject: MtMan-List: Blocking wool hats
Does anyone have info about do-it-yourself blocking/reshaping/cleaning wool
hats? I have a Missouri River Style that has a brim that's about "half mast"
after being in too many rains. I'd appreciate any help.
Ben "Big Fisherman" Rainey
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:52:22 EST
From: TrapRJoe@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Blocking wool hats
We use to do our old Drill Sgt. hats by wetting them and putting them in a
press. Simply two pieces of wood with a hole cut in one for the crown to
stick out of. After drying we would spray with sizing to help them repel
rain.
Ridge Pole
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:11:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Ronald Schrotter <mail4dog@yahoo.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
I always have wet the brim and put it on a flat table
til dry. A cowboy friend of mine said to use spray
starch on it after it has been shaped, and it will
hold even after a rain storm. We have been rained on
together many times, and his hat does indeed hold its
shape!
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:06:58 EST
From: SWcushing@aol.com
Subject: MtMan-List: brain tan...
Hello the list,
Just read Burnt Spoon's note about finally getting some brain tanned
buckskins (The Tomahawk and Long Rifle Nov 99) and how much he liked them. I
can get commercial brain tanned buckskins at about half the price of "hand
tanned" and smoke em my own self... I'm wonderin if this is a good idea or
should I bite the bullet and hold out for the "real thing"...
YMOS,
Steve
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:16:32 -0700
From: Vic Barkin <Victor.Barkin@NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: brain tan...
Steve,
In my humble but well experienced opinion, by all means, do go for the real
thing. The commercial brain tan isn't even close. Although it may look the
same, The feel and comfort is the most important thing. True brain tan
breaths and insulates better. It can be said to have more of a quality of
flannel than commercial leather. When I made the big "switch" years back, I
was amazed and still am at how comfortable the real stuff was. Kinda kicked
myself for sweating and freezing all those years in stuff that may have
looked good. And one other thing, weight. basically what I'm trying to say
is If it is within your means, either time wise to make your own or
otherwise to purchase some quality stuff, Then by all means, do so.
Vic
>Hello the list,
>Just read Burnt Spoon's note about finally getting some brain tanned
>buckskins (The Tomahawk and Long Rifle Nov 99) and how much he liked them. I
>can get commercial brain tanned buckskins at about half the price of "hand
>tanned" and smoke em my own self... I'm wonderin if this is a good idea or
>should I bite the bullet and hold out for the "real thing"...
>YMOS,
>Steve
>
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:01:09 -0500
From: deforge1@wesnet.com (Dennis Miles)
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: brain tan...
Hold out.. Make your own, you WON'T regret it....
D
SWcushing@aol.com wrote:
> Hello the list,
> Just read Burnt Spoon's note about finally getting some brain tanned
> buckskins (The Tomahawk and Long Rifle Nov 99) and how much he liked them. I
> can get commercial brain tanned buckskins at about half the price of "hand
> tanned" and smoke em my own self... I'm wonderin if this is a good idea or
> should I bite the bullet and hold out for the "real thing"...
> YMOS,
> Steve
>
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:20:45 -0800
From: Walter Harper <wharper@sinclair.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
I have used the spray foam carpet cleaner on my wool hats. then use the
spray starch. I have even gone to the point to to cut out of a oiece
of plywood the size of of the hat to sit down on the hat to get the
brim flat.
Ronald Schrotter wrote:
>
> I always have wet the brim and put it on a flat table
> til dry. A cowboy friend of mine said to use spray
> starch on it after it has been shaped, and it will
> hold even after a rain storm. We have been rained on
> together many times, and his hat does indeed hold its
> shape!
>
> __________________________________________________
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> Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place.
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:45:06 -0800
From: randybublitz@juno.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blocking wool felt hats
A friend told me to use rubbing alcohol on felt hats to re-stiffen. I
tried it once, and it seemed to work well. I put the isopropyl alcohol
in an atomizer and sprayed hat. Layed out flat to let dry. I also made
a hat stretcher, copied from one the same friend had. I snug it up into
hat while storing the hat. My 2 cents....Hardtack
Your Second Amendment Rights protect ALL of your other Rights, Don't give
up your Rights
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:37:03 EST
From: SWcushing@aol.com
Subject: MtMan-List: what it is?
Ho the list,
Here's a jpg of a critter we shot over by the Hanford Nuclear Research Center
with our flintlocks. Took several round balls to put em down and scare of the
herd he was runnin with. Not quite sure of what kind of varmit it is and
would like to have em identified befor we roast a drumstick....
http://members.aol.com/swcushing/myhomepage/whatitis.jpg
YMOS.
Steve
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