Jimmy Pierce Designs
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:17 pm
Just to let the newer people know something about me as I pretty quiet around here.
Jimmy Pierce
27 years old
live in Fort Worth.
I started college at TCU in 1997. While walking around Downtown I found Peters Bros Hats. Talked to them about hats a bit. I had worn western hats all my life but was started to get into swingdancing and looking at fedoras, and I had always loved Indiana Jones. Talked to them a couple times over the next few months. When I started my sophmore year, my parents said I could get a job, they were paying my way through college, but I had to keep my grades up. I walked in to Peters bros one day, just to look at the hats, and asked if they needed any help. I told them the only dealings I had with hats was shaping them for my friends and myself, but that I was good with my hands and couple build just about anything. Joe Jr handed me an open crown hat with a flat brim and said "Here, shape it". I said I would give it a shot. I apperently did okay, last I knew that hat was still around the store somewhere. Joe Sr. Just asked if I could use a computer. So that was the start of my education in the world of hats. I learned by odserving. Which is the way I learn best. I would watch as Jr. Shaped a hat for someone. When I would do it he would offer pointers. I watched the two girls we had at the time sewing sweatbands into hats. I have changed the way I do it several times since then and have come up with something I think works pretty good. But it stared by watching and copying them. I would watch as joe made hats and them make myt own, asking for specific details, but mostly working from memory as to what I saw and how I wanted to modify it to work better for me. I worked there most of the time through my college carrier, until some unfortunate things happened in the fall of '03 and the Spring of '04. In that time I was called an artist by many people, some mebers of this community.
Since then I have been working at different Western Stores, working with hats. Sometimes at other things, But always working on my craft of Hat Making, got married, and have just had a son. In that time I been gathering equipment and am know ready to start building hats.
That brings us to Today. My felt that I am going to use for the most part will be in withing the next couple of weeks. But in the mean time I went to the Auction at the Stetson factory a few weeks ago and have now fiqured out what bodies I bought there. Some are listed in the Vendor anouncments at the moment. Can't wait to start making hats for the people here once agian.
Jimmy
Jimmy Pierce
27 years old
live in Fort Worth.
I started college at TCU in 1997. While walking around Downtown I found Peters Bros Hats. Talked to them about hats a bit. I had worn western hats all my life but was started to get into swingdancing and looking at fedoras, and I had always loved Indiana Jones. Talked to them a couple times over the next few months. When I started my sophmore year, my parents said I could get a job, they were paying my way through college, but I had to keep my grades up. I walked in to Peters bros one day, just to look at the hats, and asked if they needed any help. I told them the only dealings I had with hats was shaping them for my friends and myself, but that I was good with my hands and couple build just about anything. Joe Jr handed me an open crown hat with a flat brim and said "Here, shape it". I said I would give it a shot. I apperently did okay, last I knew that hat was still around the store somewhere. Joe Sr. Just asked if I could use a computer. So that was the start of my education in the world of hats. I learned by odserving. Which is the way I learn best. I would watch as Jr. Shaped a hat for someone. When I would do it he would offer pointers. I watched the two girls we had at the time sewing sweatbands into hats. I have changed the way I do it several times since then and have come up with something I think works pretty good. But it stared by watching and copying them. I would watch as joe made hats and them make myt own, asking for specific details, but mostly working from memory as to what I saw and how I wanted to modify it to work better for me. I worked there most of the time through my college carrier, until some unfortunate things happened in the fall of '03 and the Spring of '04. In that time I was called an artist by many people, some mebers of this community.
Since then I have been working at different Western Stores, working with hats. Sometimes at other things, But always working on my craft of Hat Making, got married, and have just had a son. In that time I been gathering equipment and am know ready to start building hats.
That brings us to Today. My felt that I am going to use for the most part will be in withing the next couple of weeks. But in the mean time I went to the Auction at the Stetson factory a few weeks ago and have now fiqured out what bodies I bought there. Some are listed in the Vendor anouncments at the moment. Can't wait to start making hats for the people here once agian.
Jimmy
Ah well....to many things to get, and to little money.... 
