You pick the letter you want on the dial, push the handle down, and it perforates the sweatband with that letter. Its been used by hatters for over a hundred years.
Here's a chance to get one of these really cool sweatband initial machines. It doesn't say Cummings on it, but I believe it is, or is made exactly like a Cummings. I have decided to part with it because I am actually going to hand stamp initials with leather dies into sweatbands verses using...
Thanks for the kind words. I am really unsure why this hasn't been snatched up yet. Its a great hat body, I just have way too many projects going on at the moment to finish it.
This fall/winter marks the 100th anniversary of these factory plates. The pictures do them no justice. In person, the detail in the photographs are great. They are fairly large in size as well.
It would need to be re-blocked. The straw is soft and very malleable when steamed. Right now its 23 inches in circumference without the sweatband. For it to work with a 7 1/2 LO, it would need to be reblocked to somewhere around 24 inches in circumference without a sweatband. It can probably be...
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