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  1. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    It is so bad right now that I am afraid to ship anything anywhere by any shipping company. I have to find one that I can depend on or just quit and that would really hurt, since I have a built up stock of fur felt hat blanks to use for hats. I guess that I could just insure the package for...
  2. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    I talked to our mail carrier and she told me that they are going to combine her office with another post office further away from us and she is going to get a cut in pay, the distance that she will have to drive to work will increase, her delivery route will increase, and she will get a cut in...
  3. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    Has anyone received a missing package that the USPS had lost? If so how long after the package was lost did it show up?
  4. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    The 14"x14"x7" works pretty good for me, even with those deminsions sometimes I have to put the hat in the box and push the brim down a little so the hat will fit without causing a crease or curve to form in the brim that shouldn't be there. the problem is that the front and back of the brim...
  5. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    Thank you Sir, Looks like a plan to me, the weight of my packages have all been a little over 1 pound and I ship in a 14" x 14" x 7" cardboard box, I use foam core poster board to make a cylinder that I tape down in the center of the box, then put bubble wrap, or brown wraping paper around the...
  7. Darrell2688

    USPS Ground Advantage Gripes

    Hello Fedora Fans, I am glad that I found this thread, thanks to Rogueclimber, I sell a lot of hats on Ebay and when an item sells Ebay offers the seller a discount on postage, mainly ground advantage. I am going to post on my ads that I will ship my hats using FedEx if I can get a good price...
  8. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Do you have any suggested changes for this hat? Brim width, brim shape, crown shape, hat band color?
  9. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hello Fedora Fans, I just finished work on a Western Style fedora, the rabbit felt is a khaki color, the 1.5" wide ribbon is grosgrain ribbon that is a dark green, almost dark brown, the crown is 4 1/4" high at the front pinch and 4 1/8" at the back, I gave the crown a Raiders style bash, the...
  10. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    This hat sold before I could list it on Ebay. I have another Dark Gray felt on the block now, also in a size 7 1/4", if you would like a hat made in this style in a different size or color, message me.
  11. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hello Fedora Fans, I decided to make a dark gray Indiana Raiders style fedora, I tried to get as close as I could to the gray fedora that Harrison Ford wore on the Pan Am Clipper Ship airplane in the Raiders of the Lost Ark. This fedora is a size 7 1/4" with the dimensional brim cut, 2 7/8"...
  13. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I think that you have a nice setup, it may not be fully automatic, but all you have to do is turn on the power and control the speed through the rheostat switch, let the iron get hot, spray the felt and then swing the arm around and move the iron from the top of the crown and down onto the side...
  14. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    How fast does the hat block and felt spin? Pouncing by hand with a spinning blocked felt would make the pouncing work a little faster.
  15. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    The FEPSA 120G Rabbit and the 95G Beaver are nice to work with , the beaver has a soft silky feel and the hat is so comfortable to wear, you will forget that you are wearing a hat. I have a FEPSA Beaver in the Brown Sugar color with a dark brown hat band, Indiana Jones Raiders Style in size 7...
  16. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Yes I should have required a deposit for the hat, I didn't expect this person to just shut me down and leave me with a hat, he was constantly asking me to make the hat. I had to learn how to make a brim binding, that was holding me back. I figured that in the process of making the hat that I...
  17. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hello Fedora Fans, This hat was something that a customer ordered from my Etsy store page, he wanted Clinte Eastwood Good Bad Ugly hat, he wanted the hat in a 55cm size, 6 7/8" with 4 1/2" tall crown, gambler style, brim width 4 1/8" with a bound brim and 1/2" pencil curl. I made the hat in the...
  19. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hello Fedora Fans, Here is a Western Style hat that I have been working on. Hat size 7 1/8”, the sweatband was cut to 22 5/8", the crown is a teardrop shape with small impressions on each side of the crown. The crown height is 4 1/8" tall, brim 3 7/8" wide, the brim binding is grosgrain ribbon...
  20. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I did sew the brim binding into place with a flat brim and then I made the brim curl. The one problem that I noticed is the ribbon shrinks, it doesn't shrink enough to hold the brim in a 1/2" pencil curl. What would be the results if you cut the ribbon 1/2" short, sew the ribbon ends together...
  21. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Thank you Sir, By the time that I took time to read your response I had made and then used a sewing machine to sew the binding in place. The next time that I do a brim binding I will do the brim curl and then the binding, that should be interesting. How hard is it to sew a brim binding into...
  22. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hello Fedora Fans, I have 3 hats listed on Ebay for sale now, 2 Indiana Jones Raiders stye, 1 is a chocolate brown rabbit in size 7 1/4" and the other a FEPSA Beaver in 7 3/8", the third hat is a Steel Gray in 7 1/4" with a burgundy color hat band. My recent project hat is a Clint Eastwood...
  23. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Hello Fedora Fans, I am working on a hat right now that I will be putting a brim binding on, my first time using good proper ribbon and I will be sewing it onto the brim using a sewing machine, another new operation, I normally hand sew everything. The brim will also get a 1/2" pencil curl...

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