She is the one that should wear a mic.

This Lady is the rock star of Western hats. AMAZING!😀

It's unfortunate this guy kept interrupting her...you can tell she has a wealth of knowledge. Would've been nice if he let her just show us how to make a felt cowboy hat like new again. But, I digress...

Wow, the rubbing alcohol idea is great. I am definitely going to be trying that on one of my finer wool hats at home. Thank you so much for that. Can't wait to try it.

Rhonda is the best! Have purchased a Stetson and a Rodeo King from Western Emporium in Bakersfield, CA. Her associates are helpful and kind; they definitely know their product(s) and are patient with us customers. Love it😊

God bless that lady, absolutely stunned at how she brought that hat back to life.

More X's does not necessarily mean a better hat nowdays. In the past, that was true. No longer can you rely on the number x as a measure of the quality of a hat. I wish I wasn't so. Sam Silver, grandson of the founder of the American Hat Company.

She did ALL THAT WHILE holding a CASUAL Conversation. She's a Bad Ass!

My goodness, this video was a huge help! What a sweet gal. All I want to do now is shape hats with her. So therapeutic!!! I'll have to visit this shop.

Thats do Smart to tape to get rid of lint i will have to try this,am learn so much i this video... Love her videos.

Она профессионал высшего уровня. Спасибо за видео.

Compressed air works the best cleaning a felt hat from dust and dirt in my opinion. After that I use the tape method to remove any leftover lint and fuzz.

Thank you. LIke how her craft was showcased. Now with everyone giving away their "secret" , is that a good thing for their future livelihood!

Picking up some of that hat cleaner today! Fixing up and old cowboy hat that looks quite a bit like the one getting worked on here. Thanks for the guidance!

Thanks for this great lesson. I now understand how to really clean my beautiful felt hat!

This lady is a true artist

She has talent good spirit 🤠

I so needed this video,thank you. Keep them coming. Miss,,you are my go to gal for advice. Thank you for your time.

Woman is an artist.

Please do hat reviews I think with your knowledge base the reviews would be a huge help to those looking to purchase felt hats of all different qualities

Best Western Store? Where Ronda works is always the best in the West!

I'll have to try that rubbing alcohol trick sometime. When I reshape felt hats when they are pretty badly out shape I do want they call a bathtub treatment. What you do is remove the sweat band a silk liner then completely soak the hat in water and form the hat. Then when it's half way dry you shape crown and brim to the kind of style you like. Then when it's completely dry use a steamer to touch the shaping and such. And then place the sweat band back in place by hand stitching it (with my reenactment hats if the leather sweat is too far gone I use a cap sweat band liner) then put the silk liner back in, you'll have to make some adjustments to fit the new crown shape you have a made to it. Then brush the felt up and you should be ready to wear your hat. Thanks for sharing your ways on restoring hats. PS I'm still working on how to work on areas of hats that have broken felt. Have you ever had this problem? If you have, what you do? Thanks again.

Just use a shop vacuum, that's what I use in my shop works great! I'll spray a little rubbing alcohol then Vac it up!

Yes Rubbing Alcohol 99% works well to stiffen hat. I always use hat stiffner before and usually leave a mess. Tried the Big AL Rubbing Alcohol works 100%. Thank you. Use it on a wool Fedora from Christy's of London. Needs a day to dry. When using Rubbing alcohol at first temporary soften but hardens over a day

No wool and beaver felt are different. Most rodeo cowboys wear beaver felt or straw now wool. Wool is the cheaper hat

Love the packing tape trick, and would love to know what kind of sponge you used to wipe down the hat. Some links in the about section to order the cleaning product you used would be nice too. The 91% alcohol stiffens up the hat by removing moisture from it through evaporation, alcohol attracts water and the more pure the alcohol is, the faster it evaporates. Thanks again, please post something for buying the products that you used and sell in the store.

The guy filming the video kept using the term "wool" hats, (as opposed to straw hats) but, the correct term is felt hats. Felt hats can be made from a variety of fibers, the best and most expensive of which is 100 percent beaver fur felt. Rabbit, nutria, wool, and combinations of them make up more economical felts. Traditionally, calling a cowboy hat a wool hat, would be denoting the lower end qualities of felts. Also, the video maker being shocked to find out that rodeo hands wear felt hats (not just straws) shows that he should watch more rodeo! Traditionally, both on the ranch and in the rodeo arena, felt hats are worn in the cooler seasons of fall and winter, and straw hats are worn in hot weather.

Awesome Ronda, I used to do pretty good but from the expert you are.

I think the questions are Germain @ appropriate. LOVE IT!💜

I just did the alcohol trick and it made my hat pretty flimsy but I let it sit for and hour in my room with the fan on and now it’s stiffer than when I got it

I have a American hat with a rolled brim that I bought in 1973. I would love to get it restored. I wore it when I rode rodeo so it pretty beat up.

Growing up the cowboys always called the straw hats farmer hats.

Interviewing someone is an art. This guy does not have it down.

I love her!

We don’t have a lot of call for felt hats in the UK so this is very helpful 🤟

I truly enjoyed this video. Thank You.

Excellent informative video. TY

Awesome!! Thank you for the knowledge!❤

They kept calling it wool, but I don’t think it was. I think that was fur. There’s a difference.

Awesome work.

He was right to ask about how the alcohol interacts with the shellac: hatters shellac is made with alcohol and shellac flakes, so adding rubbing alcohol to a hat basically add the hat shellac's solvent back into the mix, which probably allows it to redistribute (a little) and then harden back up. Probably would not work exactly the same on every hat since some probably have more shellac left in them than others, but that would be what is happening right there.

How do you make a sun faded, wool felt, stetson hat Black again, that is not dirty, just Sun faded?

Wow that was so satisfying to watch. When she started shaping it…. Goodness she’s good with her hands. I’m from Wyoming but I have always felt I have no business wearing a cowboy hat. I didn’t grow up riding horses enough. But I did work on a ranch for 4 years as a teen. Always rode a Japanese quarter horse to do most of the work. So again, don’t feel like I should ever try to be a cowboy. Cowboy hats should be worn with authenticity. Otherwise people look like idiots. She’s authentic, including her comments about osha. Satisfyingly authentic. She’s perhaps in the top tear of something authentic which is in such short supply. Authentic cowboys are something special that I truly don’t feel like the rest of the world understands very well at all. And that might include some Dallas or Houston cowboys. She gets it. Cowboy hats mean so much more than any typical hat.

Does the rubbing alcohol really shrink the hat size? I have one that’s just a little to big and I can’t decide if I should try that method or not.

Great video! I've got a very small dent on the edge of the brim of my felt hat, and I'm wondering if that sandpaper you were using could help smooth that out. It seems like the fur is peeling slightly up around the dent now.

Nice presentation.

That would be great if she had a mic.

I just picked up a 6x stetson at a yard sale for $45. And a nice Bristol for $25 It was dusty and old. I got to order some of that cleaner.

Cool! What kind of sponge was she using?

Everything was better back in the day 😏

Thanks for the help. Loved the video

I have an old Resistol hat that needs a new sweat band, cleaning and reshaping. Are you able to repair it for me? I've been wearing this hat up until last year when all the stitching came undone. A little history: When I first met my stepson he was 4 years old, that was 36 years ago. One day he came over wearing this smashed up cowboy hat that he had pulled out from the bottom of his toy box. I steamed it with sugar water the best I could and he wore it for about three weeks before he brought it to me and asked me to try it on. It fit perfectly and he said he wanted me to have it. I 'wore that hat every day until last year. When Josh was 6 he ask me to go to dinner with him to Taco Bell. During dinner he ask me if I would be his Dad. We have been father and son ever since.

Hey All, I just so happen to pass by your channel a few weeks back and glad I did. Fun and interesting to see the shaping take place. keep them coming and all the best to you all. I was going through a credit card holder a few days back and found a business card from the store, late 80’s or early 90’s crazy ! Can’t wait to head over and say Hey!

As a welder, I too enjoy to shit talk OSHA

shes so cute =)

“Back in the day, we could use hydrochloric acid to clean hats, but then OSHA came in and took all that stuff away. Damn Democrats!”

If I'm not mistaken, I think it was j. B mooney, that started really, really wide front on the cowboy hats for bull raiders Don't quote me on that.Not a hundred percent sure

Rhonda, I want you to shape my hat, and sign it too

Can you take the sun fade away or are you stuck with it? Either way I don't mind the faded hat but if I can expand the life of it I would like that

The story Mad Hatters, Danbury, CT they used mercury to make the fur hat to shine. Mercury is a skin absorbent and the target organ is the brain.

Billy, thank you so much for these videos!!! My family and I truly appreciate it! Very enjoyable to watch! Do you or anyone else know a great hat shaper in Orange County, CA?

I'm in Visalia and fix up old hats movie hats mostly.

Thank you, guys!

Great video, make more

Played horseshoes with her cousin Mike yesterday here in Montrose Colorado

WOOL? Wool hats are the very cheap hats without "X" rating and they are almost impossible to shape. Fur felt is what she is working and "X" number has to do with the particular manufacturer's percentage of beaver into the felt blend. Lower numbers mean more rabbit fur in the felt. Good hat ~$300, Better hat ~$600-$700 Best hat +$1,000. All beaver with mink or chinchilla added ~$1,200-$1,500. Stetson Diamante 1000X, get you one.

OSHA protecting us the way they should! Yay!

Thanks.

I keep hearing wool hat. Are these really wool hats or fur felt hats?

That spray looks a lot like cleaner that is used on suede shoes.

Thanks the the awesome content….! Per norm

I don't know much about hats but I think you did an awesome job! Btw it lookes Great on you.. 👍🏼

I’m going take drive out there buying new hat . out here Los Angeles there not a lot good hat shapers

Can you advice any other hat cleaner product? Fact, in middle europe, it's really complicate to get one twister foam. Do you have any product for light color hat cleaning?

I don’t understand calling this lady , man

Amazing!

Can you use alcohol on beaver felt to stiffen it?

Wool hats are the lowest quality. I think you mean fur hats. The Xs have to do with the amount of Beaver FUR in the blend. Fur felt will always be better than wool felt. Also, all Xs are not the same. While the more Xs the better, all brands use their own method for identifying what the X represents in terms of Beaver fur. This is a great video on how to restore a hat.

Good Info ....

I'm no expert; very far from it. But I've always been told to brush a hat counter clockwise, because it goes with the grain of how the fur/felt was originally attached. Rhonda, who knows WAY MORE than I ever will, brushes a hat both directions. Does it really make that much difference? I'm always looking to learn. 🤠

Isn't she brushing it the wrong direction? All other videos I've watched say you must brush them anti-clockwise on top, clockwise underneath.

So much love all the way from South Africa ❤️❤️❤️ I would like to know how can i restore the colour on my hat without losing its shape

Any way to remove sweat stains from a resistol straw hat?

He keeps saying "wool" hats, does he mean felt? will what she does work on fur felts?

Used to love my beanies, got fluffy? Get a new one, gone baggy? Get a new one, now I'm watching videos about cleaning dust off a cowboy hat I bought a few years ago on vacation in Texas, couldn't go to Texas of all places and not buy a proper hat could I, that feels about as illegal as saying no to bbq while your there ✌️😂

I Have a hat like that black one, it was my Dad's, I always thought it was felt, didn't realize it was wool. Can you enlarge a hat a little bit if it's wool?

I'm hoping to find out how to fix a black felt hat that the felt is rubbed out in some spaces that looks white instead of black.

Can you use the black spray for polyester??? And how about the smell of the alcohol??

How do you clean the inside of the hat?

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT BRAND AND MODEL THAT GREY COWBOY HAT IS BEHIND HER ON THE THIRD CUBBY UP FROM THE BOTTOM NEXT TO THE FIRE EXIT DOOR?

Your tic of calling that lady “man” is about a as city as it gets.

I've never heard of a 7X wool hat. 7X beaver Fur blend maybe. But not wool. I think you're getting wool mixed up with fur.

Billy must not have noticed that Rhonda is a woman, 'cuz he keeps callin' her "man"...! Overall, I give this BTUFF video a "7" out of 10. Billy forgot to ask Rhonda what kind of hat cleaning "sponge" she used in conjunction with the spray foam cleaner. Those are special cleaning devices.

Would she know how to shape a hat like hank Williams jr?

Are thrifted hats like this sanitary? I found some but I'm afraid of getting bugs or something

Please, give her the mic. Cannot hear her. Will find another video.

This ain't my first rodeo, he said at his second

Wool what happened to beaver blends my MHT OR RESISTAL OR STETSON are beaver not wool I even like Buffalo by stetson better than wool .thank you I still learned something.

Callling it wool is wearing me out! Felt is beaver hair very expensive, Wool hats are cheap.

those old cleaners had mercury in them ...hence OSHA'S intervention lol