The Hatsmith

04/14/2025

04/14/2025

These are available if anybody is interested

04/10/2025

Starting today in Logandale 60 miles north of Las Vegas through this Sunday. A great family friendly event! Check it out.

03/28/2025

This weekend The B-Side Band is back at the iconic Pioneer Saloon, Friday & Saturday noon-4pm, check out the party all week long and we hope to see you there🎸🎶



Friday Event:
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Saturday Event:
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03/24/2025

Another group of hats for sale.

03/24/2025

Here’s another group of hats that I’m selling for my friend Greg. All of them accept for one are 6 7/8 or a small size. I have a dark brown 3X felt that’s a 7 1/8 size. Let me know if your interested. I can also do some shaping and cleaning on these too for a little extra. Thank you!

03/02/2025

Restyling a Musician’s hat for the 2nd generation his grandson, to wear on stage today.

03/02/2025

This is the kind of story I Love to do. It involves a friend of mine that used to play music here in Las Vegas for many years, Nashville with his family, and other places over his long career. His name was Don Holiman. When I met Don, I worked at Sam’s Town Western Emporium here in Las Vegas through a mutual friend, musician, and coworker Barney Horn. I used to listen to Don play there quite often after work. He was a great entertainer and Musician and very accomplished guitar player. He would periodically bring his hats over to the Emporium for a little clean up and shaping. Usually Barney or I would do it. Don and his family later moved to Nashville after being in Vegas for many years to pursue song writing, but later moved back out to the Las Vegas area and not long after he passed on. His daughter Erin went on stage with her Dad when she was quite young. And in the earler years his other childern Donnie&Robin also performed with Don. Later on Erin and her husband Victor Ruiz, teamed up with Don when in Nashville and played quite a while together with Victor playing rhythm&lead, Don doing pedal steel, and Erin playing bass. And all also doing vocals as well. Now to fast forward to the present. Victor got in touch with me on reshaping and renovating a couple of Don’s hats for him and Erin’s son Julian. After a little evaluation, and getting some measurements and pictures I went to work to restyle them to the way that Julian wanted them to look. They both came out very well and worked on Julian. Now Julian plays drums with his Mom and Dad on stage as part of the Bipolar Express Band, wearing Don’s Hats. What the cool part about this that the legacy of Don’s music lives on through his family today, and his hats that he once wore are still on stage with the 2nd generation. How awesome it that! Thank you all for supporting live music. music Express Aldean’s Las Vegas 2nd generation ’s Town the past Hatsmith Vegas

02/16/2025

Recreating a Matt Dillion/Gunsmoke style hat for a customer from a previously shaped Cattleman style. Without the bound edge.

02/16/2025

A while back when I first posted about recreating these Matt Dillion hats for my friend Brian, because of the 10 photo limit on Instagram, I couldn’t post all the little details on this. What I have here is a little more detail on what I did to create these two. I have to say the biggest challenge was finding the correct pictures to go by for this. Most of it was only front view pictures. I had to get a picture of the top of the crown to make sure I had it correctly, which I finally found after a lot of research. I also had to make the ribbon band and bow on the side to cover up the seam area on the ribbon band where it started and stopped. Everything said and done these both came out acceptionally well. I and Brian were very happy with the results, as you can see his comment in the previous post. The only thing I left out was the bound edge with the ribbon sewed on edge of the brim, because of how much extra time it would take. This was a project I Loved to do, recreating a movie or character hat. Dillion Arness series Hatsmith Vegas