The Hatsmith

The Hatsmith Hat modifying, cleaning, shaping. I do everything by hand, done as generations before me.

Better late than never! Happy New Year Everybody from the Hatsmith!
01/02/2025

Better late than never! Happy New Year Everybody from the Hatsmith!

Have a very Merry Christmas from Kelly and I, hope you can enjoy it with family and friends 🎅🎅🎄
12/25/2024

Have a very Merry Christmas from Kelly and I, hope you can enjoy it with family and friends 🎅🎅🎄

12/22/2024

FYI everybody, I received a “notice” on the Messenger account for this page, telling be I violated a supposed infringement on copyright’s?? I have no idea what they think this is?? And of course no explanation in the message. Stay tuned.

A down under hat.
12/16/2024

A down under hat.

With NFR just getting done this past weekend, I had a man by the name of Clint get in touch with me early last week. We...
12/16/2024

With NFR just getting done this past weekend, I had a man by the name of Clint get in touch with me early last week. We had been talking through messenger for a few weeks and was coming into town for the Rodeo Finals from Australia, and wanted me to see if I could repair his hat. The biggest issue was the sweatband, that we had talked about earlier. It was almost completely torn out because the stitching gave away on it after so many years. He thought he’s had it about 15 years or longer. What he wanted me to do is put in a new sweatband in it. Unfortunately I don’t have any. I told him if the band was in good shape I could recondition it, stretch it, and sew it back into the hat. So he left it with me, and I did just that. It also was quite dirty as well because he uses it everyday as a working cowboy hat at home. Thank goodness it was a little nicer hat, a Resistol 20X Black Gold, close to $600.00 dollars today. So after I removed all the imported organic material, and lots of time and patience, it came back very well. He was very happy with it when he picked it up. I did have to stretch it more after he got here but that didn’t take much. This should be good now for another 10 years or so. Good to go! 🇩đŸ‡ș🩘 # renovating repair done sewn under

Hard to believe here in Las Vegas after so many years, so sad!
12/05/2024

Hard to believe here in Las Vegas after so many years, so sad!

This was a old wool hat that a friend of mine Ed brought too me 3-4 years ago. It had been in storage and unfortunately ...
12/05/2024

This was a old wool hat that a friend of mine Ed brought too me 3-4 years ago. It had been in storage and unfortunately was crushed. I didn’t know if I could do anything with it or not. I took my time and amazingly it came back better than I ever thought it would. After I was through I asked Ed why he wanted it done. He explained to me that it was the last hat his Dad had. That said it all right there.

These are 2 hats that I did for a couple of Employees from our Boot Barn Corporate office that were leaving/retiring. I ...
12/04/2024

These are 2 hats that I did for a couple of Employees from our Boot Barn Corporate office that were leaving/retiring. I was contacted by my District Manager at the time as to if I knew anybody who could burn some logos into hats and just make them look a little more burnished than they were. I told him that I do that at home. He provided the hats, send me images that they wanted, and these are what turned out. I also got a follow up call from one of the 2 people thanking me and greatly appreciated it. This was about 5 years ago.

12/02/2024

Thanks everybody who accepted my friend/follow request for The Hatsmith page, earlier today. Please feel free to share I greatly appreciate it!

This is the company that makes Amish Hats in Pennsylvania.
12/02/2024

This is the company that makes Amish Hats in Pennsylvania.

There’s always a practical side of wearing a hat, sun protection, staying warm, and in this case it’s for a musician and...
12/02/2024

There’s always a practical side of wearing a hat, sun protection, staying warm, and in this case it’s for a musician and friend of mine Ricardo. He’s a Flamingo Guitar player and this hat is part of his persona with a definite Spanish influence. The problem was when on stage, he would get quite warm. This Stetson hat from the factory doesn’t have any type of ventilation. So after asking Ricardo some questions and collaborating some ideas, we came up with this ventilation design. I basically cut out the very top of the crown and replaced it with netting to ventilate with. When I was through, I placed the old part of the crown back in to give the netting the shape of the old crown and added stiffener and fabric glue onto it to hold it in place. I dressed the edge of it with ribbon to give it a very finished look.

These are a series of pictures of a hat I did recently for Steve Darnell of Welderup here in Las Vegas, and for his TV s...
12/02/2024

These are a series of pictures of a hat I did recently for Steve Darnell of Welderup here in Las Vegas, and for his TV show Vegas Rat Rod’s. He had me take one of his old hats, and age/patina it, to use at his new shop and home in Goodsprings NV. In incorporated his business and Goodsprings into this.

Here’s some before still pictures, and video and after of my friend Steve Sedlmeyer’s favorite Larry Mahan felt that’s h...
12/02/2024

Here’s some before still pictures, and video and after of my friend Steve Sedlmeyer’s favorite Larry Mahan felt that’s his favorite. After about 5,6 hours of working on it it came back very well.

Sometimes I really wonder what these poor things go through! This poor thing was the result of a son throwing water bott...
11/30/2024

Sometimes I really wonder what these poor things go through! This poor thing was the result of a son throwing water bottles in the back of Dads SUV smashing it. I’m surprised it came back as well as it did!

This is another hat I reshaped the crown on for Ellee Cole. I lowered it a bit also so it wouldn’t look so tall on her. ...
11/30/2024

This is another hat I reshaped the crown on for Ellee Cole. I lowered it a bit also so it wouldn’t look so tall on her. I added a slight “bump” in the middle of the crown to make sure it sat low enough on Ellee.

This is a crown I redid for my friend Ellee Cole a while back.
11/30/2024

This is a crown I redid for my friend Ellee Cole a while back.

I have this nice size 7 Stetson Calvary hat for sale. I’ve got to add one more picture with some cords on it. It’s in gr...
11/30/2024

I have this nice size 7 Stetson Calvary hat for sale. I’ve got to add one more picture with some cords on it. It’s in great shape. $75.00 and I’ll include some shaping if needed.

Still pictures and products I used on Gerry’s old Tony Lama’s
11/30/2024

Still pictures and products I used on Gerry’s old Tony Lama’s

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Redoing a pair of 1970’s vintage Tony Lama boots.
Redoing a pair of 1970’s vintage Tony Lama boots.

I recently took these older Tony Lama boots for a friend of mine Gerry, and stretched, reconditioned, polished, edge dressed, etc to get them looking back to their look they had many years ago. Lots of elbow grease, time, and patience. Since I can’t post a video and still pictures on the same post, I’ll do the video first, then post the stills after. Thank you for looking. #coloring #custom #polishing #conditioning #Tony Lama #wingtip #Cowboy Boots #vintage #1970’s stretching #sole straightening #hand done #good to go #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

Repainting a straw/palm leaf hat to make it look new.
Repainting a straw/palm leaf hat to make it look new.

This is a short video of a hat I repainted the other day for my friend Ron, his black Jason Aldean palm leaf hat a few days ago. A lot of original paint was wearing or flaking off. After cleaning it good I spray painted back to the flat black color it was. Now it’s good for several years again. #repairing #coloring #modifying #designing #custom #reshaping #repurposing #Rustolium #3 coats #flat black # good to go #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

A video “after” Thoroughly cleaning Steve’s hat.
A video “after” Thoroughly cleaning Steve’s hat.

This is a “after” video I’ve done on Steve’s black Larry Mahan hat that was saturated in sweat and grim to followup the previous post on it. This was quite a undertaking and needed it for a while. This took me about 5 hrs to do. #custom #hat #shaping #deep cleaning #restoring #repurposing #retrofitting #designing #modifying #black #Larry Mahan #10X #favorite #good to go #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

Juan’s hat “after”
Juan’s hat “after”

This was Juan’s hat that I had previously done a video on recently, “after” I was through with the extensive cleaning on it. It had been in a storage unit for many years unboxed and uncovered and had a bunch of dust, debris, dead bugs, seeds, etc on it. This older Stetson hat made for Sheplers came back very well and should be good for as long as Juan wants to wear it. #custom #hat #cleaning #shaping #customizing #modifying #restoring #retrofitting #repurposing #deep cleaning #good as new #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

Washing&Cleaning a rayon liner to sanitize for the new customer.
Washing&Cleaning a rayon liner to sanitize for the new customer.

A customer by the name of Juan called me the other day, and wanted to know if I could wash and clean this black Stetson hat made for Shepler’s he acquired recently. It was in a storage unit for a long time uncovered. After accessing what needed to be done I pulled out the liner to basically wash it. The inside of the crown had seeds and some dead bugs in it, that after vacuuming, I used Lysol on it to get it as clean as possible. Stay tuned the after video to come of the “ after” of the same hat. #custom#hat#cleaning#shaping#customizing#modifying#retrofitting##repurposing#deepcleaning#barnfind#sanitizing#Stetson#Sheplers#4X#blackfelt

Well a lot of times I clean and shape hats that are not Cowboy style hats. I do a little bit of everything really. Fedora’s, Pork Pie’s Top Hats, Las Vegas Strip show hats, etc. Such is the case for this fabric style Fedora. This particular hat belongs to my brother in law Cody. He’s had it for many years and has used it for work, his BBQ business, painting, and other odd jobs over many years. A lot of it (like dried paint, burn marks) won’t come off. But I was able to clean up the sweat stains and ring from it, around the hat pretty well in fact. I made up a solution and completely submerged the hat for about a hour to soak. Then scrubbed it with a light nylon brush. It’s a heck of a lot “brighter” than it was. It’s just one of his favorites that he wears often, that will be good for quite a while after this little makeover. #custom #hat #shaping #deep cleaning #makeover #maintenance #Fedora #fabric #keepsake #favorite #Brighter #stain removal #what the customer wants #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

Cleaning and conditioning of boots/shoes/&saddles&tack for customers. #custom #hat#cleaning#shaping#designing#modifying#repurposing#hats#polishing#softening#by hand #shoeshiner#The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

After on Paul’s hat
After on Paul’s hat

This is after video on Paul’s hat, for some reason it wouldn’t transfer from Instagram when I posted a while back. So I’m adding it to the page now, sorry for the mixup. I had also posted it on my personal page a while back also.

A nice older Cinch Hat 8X felt as it came in, going through a lot of changes and a big front to back stretch. #custom #hat #shaping #cleaning #customizing #renovation #style change #big stretch #deep cleaning #what the customer wants #The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

Cleaning and Redesigning a old Ranch hat for a new look. #custom #hat #shaping #cleaning #redesigning #repurposing #retrofitting #modifying #style change #H&H Hats #black #50X #what the customer wants # The Hatsmith #Las Vegas

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