- Crown: 6 inches
- Brim: 5"
- Crown: 4 Dent Military
- Color Shown: Chocolate
- Brim: Hand Shaped -open
- Hatband: Wrapped 3/4" distressed leather strapping/windstring
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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An over-sized cowboy hat is any hat that has a brim wider than 4 inches.
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Our take on Kurt Russell's hat from the Thing. The Thing Movie Hat - This 4 dent military style has the largest dimensions we can make. A 6 inch crown with a 5" brim. If you'd like the brim flatter on the sides, just put that request in the Production Notes box below.
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Quigley Cowboy hat - Pinches and dents on hat crowns originated by working cowboys so they could more easily pick up their hats. The 3 pinch cavalry style is likely the most common as this creasing allows you to easily pick up or handle your hat. This is our version of the Quigley hat, and it comes with the hat band. Shown with optional wind string.
- Crown: 6" inches Modified Cavalry
- Brim: 4 3/4" Hand rolled-open
- Color Shown: Undyed Natural Shown with optional medium trail dust
- Hatband: Custom 1 1/2" Leather, shown with OPTIONAL Wind String
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an authentic old west hat with over sized brim Yellowstone Kelly Custom Hat - We introduced this hat design in 2008 based on what we think Yellowstone Kelly is wearing in the historical photo from the 1890s. The brim we have pretty dang close and we have used a crown treatment that would have been in keeping with the style exhibited by this cultured warrior.
- CROWN: 5 1/2 inches
- BRIM: 4 1/2 inches
- Crown Shape: Modified Cavalry Pinch
- Color: Whiskey
- Brim: Hand rolled with 1" kettle curl Bound Edge
- Hatband: 1" inch Chocolate brown satin with 1898 bow
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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the Little J Cowboy Hat - from Posse {1993} This is one massive hat - easily one of the largest we make. We make our version of the hat that is worn by Stephen Baldwin in the movie, Posse. This puppy has a 6 inch crown with a 5 inch brim.
- Crown: 6" inches Modified Cavalry pinch
- Brim: 5 inches Hand rolled heavy dip front and back-Open
- Color Shown: Black with optional medium trail dust
- Hatband: 1" distressed dark leather
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Wasey Hat - Modified Sagebrush shaped crown was one of the most common of the first few decades of the 20th century. Made famous in the early silent westerns by pioneering movie maker and star William S. Hart.
- Crown: 5 inches
- Brim 4 3/4"
- Winchester version has a 3 1/2" brim and 1" leather hatband
- Color Shown: Undyed natural.
- Crown: Modified Sagebrush.
- Brim: Open.
- Hatband: 1" Satin with Bow.
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Our version of the Last of the Dogmen Hat We start with an oversized hat body to make this rodeo style cowboy hat, with a gentle hand rolled brim.
- Crown: 5 1/2 inches
- Brim: 4 3/4"
- Color Shown: Chocolate.
- Crown: Modified Cattleman.
- Brim: Hand Shaped-Open.
- Hatband: Custom 1" leather.
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Our read on the Blondie Sharpshooter Movie Hat - A pure beaver fur-felt cowboy hat reproduction of the straw hat Clint Eastwood wears early on in the iconic western; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Clint Eastwood as Blondie wears a straw version of this hat, early in the iconic western; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. We don't do straw - so here it is in fine pure beaver fur felt. We start with an oversized hat body, to make this big brimmed hat - and it ain't ugly!
- Crown: 4 1/2"
- Brim: 4 3/4" inches
- Color Shown: Sand
- Crown: Telescope
- Brim: Hand worked with a 1/2" pencil roll-open
- Hatband: 3 twists of latigo lace
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Our take on the Wild Bill Movie Hat from Wild Bill (1995) The Wild Bill has an open crown, like our Boss of the Town, and a 5 inch brim, with a large kettle curl and bound edge. Our hat's of to Captain Mac for ordering the first one.
- Crown: 5" inches Open
- Brim: 5" Kettle Curl; Saucy roll on left - bound brim edge
- Color Shown: Bone
- Hatband: 1" satin ribbon and bow.
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Tom Mix B-Movie hat - A hat style popular with early film star Tom Mix Tom Mix was likely cinema's first movie star, starring in dozens of silent and talkie westerns, at the dawn of cinema in the 1920s and 30s. Mix was a small man who liked big hats, and was the first movie star earning 40,000 a week in 1925. This classic old B-Movie hat has a sagebrush crown, and a big 4 3/4 inch brim with a large kettle curl and bound brim edge.
- Crown: 6 inches, Modified Sagebrush
- Brim 4 3/4" Kettle Curl, bound edge
- Color Shown: Bone
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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a historical reproduction of Wild Bill Hickok's hat
Hickok Old West Cowboy Hat. We start with an over sized hat body to make this classic western hat, with a short crown and wide pencil rolled brim. Brims worked different - but essentially the same hat worn by Wild Bill on HBOs Deadwood.- Crown: 4 1/2 inches Texas flat
- Brim 4" Pencil rolled and Bound
- Color: Black
- Hatband: 1" inch Satin with Bow
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Georgia Devil Cowboy Hat - This Charley Daniels hat style has the largest dimensions we can make: A 6 inch crown and a 5 inch brim. Some have a bigger brim dip front and back, some more of a brim curl, tell us which you favor and we will shape it just so.
- CROWN HEIGHT: 6"
- BRIM: 5"
- Color Shown: Silver belly and Charcoal.
- Crown: modified cattleman.
- Brim: hand rolled-open.
- Hatband: 1" leather with nickel concho's and buckle.
- OR 1/4 inch cavalry ribbon
- Musician Favorite
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Line Dancer Rodeo Hat - hand made by the last best west In the early 1990s country music star, Garth Brooks, took his traditional country sound and mixed in pop music, and the popularity of country music soared. Clint Black, Alan Jackson, and the rest of Nashville rode shotgun and all of a sudden anything to do with the country or western lifestyle was in demand around the world.
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- CROWN: 4 1/4" Modified Canadian
- BRIM: 4 3/4" Hand Curled and bound
- Color: bone
- Hatband: 1″ satin ribbon w/bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Our version of the Dunson Hat - From the movies; The Searchers; Red River; and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We start with an over sized hat body for our Dunson hat, and you can choose your brim working. The look from The Searchers; Red River; or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Enter your choice for brim shape in the production notes below.
- Crown: 4 3/4"
- Brim 4 3/4 inches
- Color Shown: Black.
- Crown: Telescope.
- Brim: Hand curled (Red River Version)-Bound.
- Hatband: Custom 3/4" leather.
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Everett Hitch Movie Hat
Our version of the Everett Hitch Movie Hat - from Appaloosa {2008} This big hat could have been copied from our Hickok. Our Hitch hat has an extra wide brim with a kettle curl and hand rolled brim. If you wish a windstring, you can add it during the check out process.- Crown: 5" inches
- Brim: 4 1/2"
- Color Shown: Dyed Natural
- Crown: Telescope
- Brim: Pencil rolled; Hand worked -bound
- Hatband: 1" Satin with bow
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Plainsman Custom Hat - A Blend of Two Styles This great looking hat is a blend of 2 hat styles. This has the Tom Mix sagebrush shaped crown, and the brim shape from the Decker. We start with an oversized hat body to do this big hat with a brim width of 4 3/4".
- Crown: Modified sagebrush
- Color shown: Chocolate
- Brim: hand shaped - bound
- Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon, with 1898 Bow
- Crown Height: 3 1/2" front; 6" back
- Brim: 4 3/4"
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bonanza (1959 - 1972) debuting on TV, this is our take on the magnificently simple hat worn by Dan Blocker as Hoss. Big Guys like big hats. And Dan Blocker was a big man right from the start. Weighing 14 pounds at birth he grew to be a 6' 4" and 300 pound favorite on the iconic TV Western, Bonanza. And his Hoss Cowboy hat was the most authentic old west hat, any of the cast of Bonanza wore.
- Color shown: Silver Belly in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- shown with optional medium trail dust
- Crown: 6" inches open un-creased
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped and rolled
- Hatband: horse hair hat band
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Our version of the Little Bill Daggett Hat - From Unforgiven (1992) Another hat design with an upswept front, very similar to our rodeo hat, The Cutter. We start with an oversized hat body so we can get the 4 1/2 inch brim width.
- Crown: 5 1/4" inches
- Brim: 4 1/2"
- Color Shown: Pecan
- Crown: Modified Cattleman
- Brim: Hand shaped-Open
- Hatband: 1/4" Cavalry ribbon
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Destry Rides Again Movie Hat - {1939} Our version of Jimmy Stewart's Tom Destry Jr. hat. from the classic western Destry Rides Again hand made by the last best west
- Crown Height: 4 1/2" Modified 3 pinch Cavalry
- Brim: 4 1/2" Pencil roll and hand shaped - bound
- Color: Whiskey
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Champie Old West Hat - a classic over-sized cowboy hat hand made by the last best west This is an early crown treatment from the early decades of the 20th century. Hat makers started offering pre-creased crowns and shaped brims after they saw the most common way the working Cowboys had of creasing their hats. Our Champie Old West Hat is one big hat and if you want great sun and weather protection this hat will fit the bill.
- Crown: 5" inches "Champie" Crease
- Brim: 5" inches Kettle Curl Bound
- Color: Sand
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Our take on the Yakima Cowboy Hat - a classic b-western cowboy hat Yakima Canutt rode his success as a Champion Rodeo Cowboy, into the early days of Hollywood to become one of the first silent movie stars.
- Crown: 6" inches 4 Dent Military
- Brim: 5 inches Kettle Curl with bound edge and hand roll
- Color: Granite.
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Our take on the Young Jake Custom Handmade Hat from Comanche Moon.{2008}.
We start with an over sized hat body to make the Young Jake hat style with its tall modified 4 dent military crown and a extra wide brim for great sun and weather protection. Walk around in your own shade with this big brimmed hat!- Crown 6 inches
- Brim 4 3/4"
- Crown: Modified Sagebrush
- Hatband: 1" Satin Ribbon/Bow
- Color shown: Bone
- Brim: Kettle curl/handroll – Bound
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Hatband not sold separately
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lonesome Dove (1989) debuting on TV, this is our version of the hat worn by Frederick Forrest as the murderous border outlaw, Blue DuckOur Blue Duck cowboy hat is one big and imposing cowboy hat with its six inch crown and 4 1/2 inch brim. Shown here in Charcoal, with our optional light trail dust.
- Color shown: Charcoal in 20X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- shown with optional light trail dust
- Crown: 6" inches Reverse Tycoon
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped heavy dip front and back
- Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon and bow
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Jake Spoon Lonesome Dove Hat - our take on the Robert Urich hat style from the mini-series (1989) This is a big dang hat – befitting the self-centered character deftly played by Robert Urich. Everything is about Jake and this thoughtless, arrogant, gambler makes a bad choice and ends up riding with the wrong crew. We start with an over-sized hat body to make the Jake Spoon.
- Crown: 6" inches 4 dent military
- Brim: 4 3/4 inches Kettle curled/hand rolled with bound edge
- Hatband: Matching 1" Satin Ribbon/Bow
- Color: Sahara
- hats ship in 6-8 weeks
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
- Hatband not sold separately
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Desperado Cowboy Hat - an original hat design by the last best west.This baby will get some second looks! This old west performers hat is sure to get comments with it's lopsided crown and massive kettle curled brim.
- Color shown: BONE in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches modified telescope
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped and kettle curled brim
- Hatband: 1 inch grosgrain ribbon/with Indian motive second band over top
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Cutter Custom Handmade Hat - This big hat has a 6 inch crown and a 4 3/4″ brim width. This hat is a cousin of our Little Bill hat from that Oscar Winning movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven.
- Crown:modified cattleman with side dent
- Color:Black
- Brim: Hand Shaped -Open
- Hatband:1/2″ fur-felt self buckle. With feather.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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King Of The Sagebrush Handmade Hat - A client had us take our Wild Bill and put a homberg dent in the crown, changed the hatband and voila an instant B-western Classic!
- Crown: Homburg Dent
- Color: Undyed Natural.
- Brim: Kettle Curl Bound Edge Hand shaped
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Blue Steel Custom Hat - Many famous old time actors got their start during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and appeared in all the B-Westerns and Serials that they could get. At the height of the Great Depression 1 in 3 men didn't have a job and in tough times any pay day is a good pay day.
- Crown: 3 pinch B-Movie crease.
- Color: Charcoal Gray
- Brim: Kettle Curl Bound edge Hand rolled
- Hatband: 1 inch satin with 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Bull Rider Custom Hat - A sixteen time World Champion offers his view on what makes people flock to the bull-riding event at every rodeo, “It’s the same reason people glance off the road to get a better look at a car wreck. It’s why the Romans went to the Coliseum to see the lions eat the Christians. People don’t want to see somebody die, but they darn sure want to be there when he does.”
- Crown:Canadian
- Color:Chocolate
- Brim: Hand Curled and bound
- Hatband:1″ satin ribbon w/bow. Contrasting pecan bound edge.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Poker City Jim Hat - Our take on a classic b-movie hat One of our favorite b-western cowboy hats, the Poker City Jim B-Movie Hat was the hat style worn by actor Paul Fix, in the classic B-Western: The Desert Trail. The crown has the 3 pinch cavalry crease like the Wyatt and the classic B-Movie hand rolled and kettle curled brim.
- Crown: 6" inches 3 pinch cavalry or Gus crease
- Brim: 4 1/2" Kettle Curl Bound Edge Hand Rolled
- Color: Black
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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We start with an over sized hat body to make this OUR CENTER RING PRO RODEO HAT. High crown and big brim it is the most popular style Pro Rodeo Riders are wearing these days. Both cowboys and cowgirls can be seen wearing this hat style. We know Rodeos. We know Cowboys. And we know rodeo cowboy hats!
- Crown: 5" inches, Modified Canadian
- Brim: 4 1/2" Hand rolled with bound brim edge
- Color Shown: GRANITE
- Hatband: CHARCOAL grosgrain ribbon, bow and matching brim edge
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Stumpy Custom Handmade Hat - You see lot's of these open crown style cowboy hats from the early days of film right through the modern era. Variations of this hat design were worn by Walter Brennan as Stumpy in Rio Bravo {1959}, as well as Dan Blocker as Hoss on the long running TV series; Bonanza. A unique looking hat nowadays, but a century or more ago it was a very common hat style, being just an oversized cousin of the classic Boss of the Plains.
- Crown: Open
- Color: Granite
- Brim: 1" kettle-curl - Bound
- Hatband: 1" Satin with 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown