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[Hurricane Jack]

Akubra Camp Draft in Taupe Fawn

I really like Taupe Fawn, & like your style!

 

[MarkStar]

I wish I could do a better Cattleman's Crease...
Yours looks great!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I wish I could do a better Cattleman's Crease...
Yours looks great!

Thanks! It helps to have a good source for some wet steam. Just keep working with it & refining it. You'll get there!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Old Panizza. Stingy 1 3/4" brim with a 1 7/8" band.
Not only do I like stingy brims, I also like bound edge brims. It looks like this Italian hat was marketed in Germany.

Daniele sent me some Panizzas. I had never even heard of Panizzas before. Great hats

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[splintercellsz]

1948 Dated(?) Steteon "Gold Medal"

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[Richard Morgan]

Another summer purchase. The homburg is part of a bunch of pretty badly worn Borsalino.
It was a gamble and this is the only one in my size, the others are narrower or smaller and are in the skillful hands of Fleur hatter of Penumbra hats in Netherlands.

Lobbia Borsalino Qualità Extra Extra Superiore. Size is 6, so a 59 in EU or a 7 3/8 in US

Color is "Palladio" cinta (ribbon) Nero "Gulaela" Felt is soft and very malleable with a contrasting ribbon

It seems new except it was the food for the moths, above all on the under side brim

Fleur did a magnificient work on the little holes and nibbles made by moths

Outside the moths are more gentle

This "Lobbia" Borsalino or homburg or Diplomatique is the type with "wide" brim

The proportions are: brim at 6 cm. ribbon is 4 cm. and the crown is 11 cm.
More to come in the next days

Gorgeous Daniele, I seldom wear my homburgs but I think that one would get some heat time if it was mine.

 

[Richard Morgan]

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Justin, that's definitely a WOW

 

[Richard Morgan]

Cavanagh derby (bowler). I suspect early to mid 1960s, but that’s just a guess.

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That manufacturer's tag has the block depth so it is not later than late 50s and the pleated liners are usually even earlier, though they may have used pleated liners later on bowlers.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

That manufacturer's tag has the block depth so it is not later than late 50s and the pleated liners are usually even earlier, though they may have used pleated liners later on bowlers.

So the liner puts it 1950 or later since it doesn’t have “John” in the name and the block puts it pre 1960. I’ll take the range of 1950 to 1959.

I based my guess partially from the $20 price, but maybe inflation was already there in the 1950s.

Thank you.

 

[Redfokker]

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This is the bee's knees Justin. It looks good with the low slung crown and deep crease. That brim is just nutz!

 

[Redfokker]

So the liner puts it 1950 or later since it doesn’t have “John” in the name and the block puts it pre 1960. I’ll take the range of 1950 to 1959.

I based my guess partially from the $20 price, but maybe inflation was already there in the 1950s.

Thank you.

The Hatted Professor speaks of the address in the logo for some dating. I want to say it comes in at 1955-57 or so. Narrowing it down maybe even more. Killer Derby!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

The Hatted Professor speaks of the address in the logo for some dating. I want to say it comes in at 1955-57 or so. Narrowing it down maybe even more. Killer Derby!

Thanks for doing the leg work for me, Mike. The condition really is pristine and mid-50s is older than I was expecting.

 

[scottyrocks]

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Just wow in every way.

 

[scottyrocks]

I received my new Penman yesterday but didn't post it here right away because although it looked fantastic in pictures and right out of the box, on my head the reverse taper was just too much with the 6-point diamond/C/teardrop shape which results in the widest a crown can be.

I played with it for a couple of days and have settled on, at least for now, a center dent, which still allows this hat to have a slight reverse taper, which I like, and resulted a general 'softening' of the lines, which is neither good nor bad, just different.

Anyway, some before and afters of the crease change.

 

[scottyrocks]

This is with the center dent, but before I relaxed the front pinch a bit. I'm not sure which way I like it better. For felt preservation, the relaxed pinch would be better.

 

[Tukwila]

This is with the center dent, but before I relaxed the front pinch a bit. I'm not sure which way I like it better. For felt preservation, the relaxed pinch would be better.

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I like every pic you posted. Personal preference rules here. Love your new hat, Scotty!

 

[scottyrocks]

Thanks, Tuk. I'm pretty thrilled with it, myself.

 

[Zombie_61]

I received my new Penman yesterday but didn't post it here right away because although it looked fantastic in pictures and right out of the box, on my head the reverse taper was just too much with the 6-point diamond/C/teardrop shape which results in the widest a crown can be.

I played with it for a couple of days and have settled on, at least for now, a center dent, which still allows this hat to have a slight reverse taper, which I like, and resulted a general 'softening' of the lines, which is neither good nor bad, just different.

Anyway, some before and afters of the crease change.

This is with the center dent, but before I relaxed the front pinch a bit. I'm not sure which way I like it better. For felt preservation, the relaxed pinch would be better.

First, that's stunning! Second, I like the Center Dent crease far more; I really don't care for reverse taper, and the Center Dent minimizes that. Third, I think the tighter pinch works better with that Center Dent, but that's just me. Fourth, it's a good thing it's green because if it was as brown as it appears to be in the last two photos you'd probably get tired of the "Indy" comments rather quickly. Fifth, did I mention it's stunning? Wonderful proportions, and the ribbon and felt colors really go well together!

 

[Redfokker]

This is with the center dent, but before I relaxed the front pinch a bit. I'm not sure which way I like it better. For felt preservation, the relaxed pinch would be better.

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I always enjoy seeing a hat develop into "your own". Quite an enjoyable series. I have become more accustomed to a center dent of late. This is one stellar hat Scotty. Wear it in good health.

 

[scottyrocks]

First, that's stunning! Second, I like the Center Dent crease far more; I really don't care for reverse taper, and the Center Dent minimizes that. Third, I think the tighter pinch works better with that Center Dent, but that's just me. Fourth, it's a good thing it's green because if it was as brown as it appears to be in the last two photos you'd probably get tired of the "Indy" comments rather quickly. Fifth, did I mention it's stunning? Wonderful proportions, and the ribbon and felt colors really go well together!

Thank you, Al and Red.

Re the front pinch, my wife has already expressed an opinion of the hat both ways, and she preferred the original 'bash,' I think because she dislikes hats on me that have a 'tall' crown. The original 6-point, wide crease effectively made the whole crown appear shorter.

But when I tightened up the front crease (before loosening it again) she said it looked better than when it was loose because the tight front pinch brings the crown down just enough to be able to perceive that's it's just a little shorter.

I did the same thing the other day on my sage green John Cavanagh. When I tightened the front pinch it made a dramatic perceived difference in the crown height. Originally it was massive for my head and face, but now is more proportional, again, for my head and face.

I had wanted a green hat for a long time, and I finally made the decision to have one made back in December, and placed my order around that time.

Then in July I was lucky enough to snag a grail hat of mine in the moon sell-off - his sage green John Cavanagh with the copper ribbon. So now I have two green hats with copper ribbons, but that's more than fine because I just love that color combination.

While I was speaking with John Penman about the hat, I was vacillating between a Raiders and a true custom he was going to design for me, at first in another color combo. After much anxiety on my part, I settled on his 'Penman' model in the green and copper, the color choices fueled mostly by the John Cavanagh that I had not known at that time would come into my possession.

So what I essentially ended up with, after my reshaping, is an overall smaller but proportional Indy-type hat, which is perfect for me, as a dimensionally correct true-to-size one tends to swallow me up. Loving earth tones, the colors on my hat are perfect, afaic, as the green and copper pushes all my correct buttons.