Cowboy Hats and Heavy Metal Jewelry To Die For . . . or Kill With

You've seen custom cowboy hats before. Normally the customizations are in the form of fur trim, airbrushed graphics, or maybe even rhinestone designs. Nice try, but these hats make me think of 50- year old women in Vegas just letting their hair down and bein' 50-year old crazy. These custom hats don't say rock 'n' roll as much as they say Elvis impersonator. Western stores also carry some less classically country styles in the form of spray painted straw or harder-edged-but-still-mass-produced hat bands. All well and good if you are feeling mainstream, mass-produced badass. Same goes for jewelry. There are some pretty cool designs out there, but when you boil them down to the construction and the pieces they are made up of, they aren't as deviant and alternative as you would want them to be. With jewelry more than hats, there are exceptions though . . .

http://www.femmemetale.com>
http://hellkats-la.com

and of course . . .

http://www.lustandgorehardwear.com (http://myspace.com/lustandgore until the website is live)

At Lust & Gore we use pieces of power. Real heavy duty, heavy metal, industrial strength hardware to create designs that make you feel powerful, indestructible, hardcore, and badass. Other than the stripped down hats we build on, the elements of the designs we make are atypical from the hooks on the necklaces to the hat bands on the cowboy hats and military caps. And, because the materials we create with are meant to assemble, support, and bear weight, they tend to be sharp, strong, heavy, and, sometimes, hot. Although the process we use to incorporate these materials into a completed design is less robust than the materials themselves (This means if you roughhouse with your Lust & Gore, it might get damaged. Hey, this is art. Take care of your Lust & Gore design, though, and it will take care of you.) it is not to say that a Lust & Gore design couldn't inflict some bodily harm. The Lust is in the wanting. The Gore is built right in. You be careful now, you hear?

All Lust & Gore designs are made by hand, making every piece absolutely unique .