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How to false sweat stains / soil cowboy hats?

• Thread starter santacaferacer
• Commencement date Jan 4, 2011

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Thanks - I take eavesdropped on the lounge for years and finally joined loving all things yous guys exercise - nice leather jackets, hats, boots, etc....I'm non a SASS member (yet) simply exercise my fair share of black pulverisation too.

I promise someone can give me the secret formula!

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I have not done this. Just cutting/pasting from a google search outcome....

- Use water proof makeup, shoe polish or products called fullers earth and schmutz.

-When using Fullers World, mix three parts glycerin or baby oil with i part water in a spray bottle. Apply to the desired area then utilize Fullers Globe. This will keep the "grit" on the garment/fabric.

-Utilize glycerin or baby oil in a spray bottle to brand sweat stains.

-Apply a product called schmere to make grass stains. This product comes in a form like a deodorant stick.

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it also helps if you squash the chapeau, kick it effectually a bit, get it soaking wet*, and all that jazz, before you stain it.

Just out of curiosity, what is the costume?

*allow it dry out also.

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I hope someone tin can give me the secret formula!

Secrets? :gossip:

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Fullers Earth is the "stuff" I couldn't remember. Cheers Bill...

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Seems so "Urban Cowboy".

Truthfully, I think a couple of warm afternoons and a few dozen rounds through a black pulverisation pistol, a piffling dust and you'd be hard pressed non to accept the wait. For real.

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There is some truth to that - nosotros live in a very dusty surroundings here in Santa Atomic number 26. I think al I'll worry about is the hat for now - a fleck of watered downwards baby oil and some fullers world should do the trick from what I accept now read. I don't think I'll exist spending the big bucks for schmere or other similar products. After all - what is sweat after all? Nosotros all sweat some water/salt/and oil - let some dirt and dust settel on information technology and there y'all have information technology. I'll get my hands a flake oily take hold of the hat off my head in a diverseness of ways and dust it with fullers to get the 'handling' dirt.

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...Truthfully, I think a couple of warm afternoons and a few dozen rounds through a black powder pistol, a little grit and you'd be hard pressed non to take the look. For real.

All information technology unremarkably takes for me is a time or 2 mucking out the stalls, enough of sweat & dust even in the coolness of winter....

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Visit the costume shop at the Santa Fe Opera... they will show y'all the ropes.

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If you want that Duke or Josey Wales look on a calorie-free colored Western hat, mix up really potent tea and instant coffee ... thick ... lots of tea and coffee to a lilliputian h2o

Remove bands or ribbons

utilise a spritzer to wet the point the crown becomes the skirt

Utilize a dish rag or spounge to apply the liquid around the lid, manifestly paying more attention to the forepart and back, if you want it to look "real" merely apply to the sides too if you want the desired effect

Let it to dry and see if it's the colour you want

If yous want, spritz with h2o between applications and the reapply

This takes longer, just the result is longer lasting and IMO more like what you see on the Knuckles's hat circa 'The Cowboys'

If yous do it right, the result volition last for a long, long time

I have a Stetson I applied this to more than 25 years agone and I tin can't tell it did it any damage ... other than the color, of course

Promise that helps

Sam

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Ummmmmm, not understand why y'all need to imitation sweat stains and dirt on an outdoor hat. I just mow the range on a riding mower twice and shoot a couple of hundred rounds and everything I'm wearing looks like crap and has white sweat rings on it. Heck, I even washed my Dominicus Body a couple of times to get the sweat stains off it and well, make it smell meliorate... Just sweat through the hat, and then aim the discharge from the mower into the wind.

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Oh no, Mike

This is to get that sweaty await without all the stress to the hat

Sort of like distressed jeans ... you know ... pay more for ones that look similar they've been worn to mow the range etc.

I wore an Amish wearing apparel chapeau .. black fur felt, of course ... equally a campaign chapeau when I volunteered every bit a noncombatant lookout man at Fort Larned ... wore it for years and it "earned" the white sweat stains, merely I'm assured those can be faked also, if y'all know what you're doing

Even though I don't reenact whatever more, the old campaigner has a special place in my collection, considering it DID earn all the stains.

Sam

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Oh no, Mike

This is to get that sweaty expect without all the stress to the hat

Sort of like distressed jeans ... you know ... pay more for ones that look like they've been worn to mow the range etc...
Sam

HI Sam

I didn't understand that hat use stressed the chapeau more than faking the stains. (Baby oil and fuller's earth = sweat and dust) At least that's what I idea. Where did y'all go the Amish hat effectually here? I didn't see any at Yoder last time I was in town. I saw a few in Arthur Illinois last winter though.

No I don't want to discuss Arthur, my 77 year sometime Mother took two hours in a bulk sales shop the size of a quick trip and I'll never be the same.

I gotta get to Larned, I've been here since 1983 on and off, and I've never gone. Fort Scott, but not Larned. Oh, distressed Jeans GAWD, what a waste. I used to accept a pair of Levi's from the 1970's that I was still wearing in 1983. They were third level hand me downs and were about white. I wore them every weekend.

later

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Yeah, nosotros used to piece of work so difficult to proceed our "skilful jeans" good
what fools nosotros were, huh?

I went through Gohn Brothers of Middlebury Ind. for my campaign chapeau. It was identical in dimensions to one that was recovered from a wrecked steamboat on the Missouri River,
I don't know who makes them, but they are bachelor in wool or fur felt.
The fur felt ones vesture similar atomic number 26
The last 10 years I volunteered at Fort Larned I depicted an infantry company comander and went back to Gohn Brothers for a narrower brimmed fur felt that I added advisable insignia to for my dress hat. Information technology as well wore similar iron.
Since I never used it to fan a fire or any of the other stuff I put the campaign hat through, information technology even so looks brand new, except for the insignia, of course.

The Amish wait long habiliment and if you get one of their hats, you get your money's worth

I take toyed with the thought of ordering one with bound edge and the correct dimensions to shape into a replica of the one that Tom Hanks wore in Route to Perdition... I know they have the right shape and if you lot blocked information technology correctly, you lot'd take a wearing apparel lid that would stand up to annihilation

Larter,

Sam

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santacaferacer how did your weathering turn out? Is your lid pictured from Baron Hats? And where did y'all find a glaze that matched the movie?

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