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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
That's a great resource! Thanks for sharing.- Hat and Rehat
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Two auctions I was watching ended today, during service time. I put my phone on airplane mode and prayed to forget about them. Fortunately I've never heard hats mentioned in a sermon. Crowns, yes, but fortunately not today.- Hat and Rehat
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Circumference measurements are actually pretty hard to get accurate with a soft tape. I get pretty good ones using a piece of copper wire, which can be formed to the inside above the break, marked, then removed, straightened, and measured. A lot of, if not most, vintage hats also have the size...- Hat and Rehat
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Nicely said, Doc. Though my time here is shorter, I feel very much like that. I thank all of you here, my fellow Loungers!- Hat and Rehat
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
My thought, too.- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
Mine sleeps. Here, Armadillo! Come to papa!- Hat and Rehat
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Photos of hatters tools
I've been much less prolific posting in hat wearing and new hat (shhh ... I do have a couple) threads, but it isn't because my interest (infatuation) has waned. Hatmaking and hatmaking tools has just been my preoccupation. Two reblock, resize, rebuilds in sizes other than my own called for...- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
I made my own wool hoods, really cheap, by throwing thrift store hats in a bucket overnight.- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
How much difference is there, Jim? Rebuilding can also give you the nicer felt. C'mon! Go trap some coons!- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
Buy her a bottle of wine next time.- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
I gave myself that very advice coming into it, Jared. Seeing hats like this one sure tempts me to go off the reservation though!- Hat and Rehat
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Making a Western hat by hand?
That's great, Scott (you've probably heard that all your life)! Really nice, man. Where did you buy the Nutria hatbody? Don't tell me you're a trapper too .... please.- Hat and Rehat
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Do you want to buy one? ;-) I've seen hats with the designations you give, but have never held a block so designated in my hands. I've held a round one. I could probably bowl with it if I could better control my wrist. That said, I probably did go a little far putting round blocks in the same...- Hat and Rehat
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I wasn't saying that about modern production (or reproduction). After buying the first one I've been pretty careful bidding on eBay blocks. There are actually more vintage ones that are round than I expected. I'm not sure what hat company in Canada was mined for blocks, but many of the blocks I...- Hat and Rehat
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Hatter's Supply sells both profiles, so you can compare them there. There doesn't seem to be any database that shows creased crowns and identifies the block used (I've looked for one with no luck), but pushing the crease out of a few hats will start to give you the feel of what block will help...- Hat and Rehat
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The plywood set-up you described, if you also iron the underbrim while the bock and hat are in it, will give you the zero or flat flange we talked about earlier. I mentioned curling the outer edge of the brim to give it more strength, but you can also manipulate the brim break by hand, with...- Hat and Rehat
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There are round blocks. I have one, bought on the Bay, from Canada. I was disappointed when it arrived, but reviewed the ad and decided I should have looked at the pictures in more detail, so didn't try to return it. Ermatinger talks about round blocks for making and reblocking hats for Indians...- Hat and Rehat
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It looks pretty good to me. If you want it even flatter, you need to change the upward curve where the crown and brim meet, the brim break. It probably had a factory flange that set a less than 90 degree angle there. What I suggested about ironing the underbrim will help do that, but consider...- Hat and Rehat
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Did you iron the top or bottom, and did you use the steam button? I would iron the underbrim, with the hat pressed tight to the edge of the table I was ironing on. Better yet is a half circle cut into a table so the hat needs less spinning around, and a firm surface with a hard edge is better...- Hat and Rehat
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I believe you end up with a thicker felt product, much less willing to be hand molded after the original blocking. Before trying it, you might want to investigate the way hatters learned to sort their fur by flipping it around in the air with bow like tools. It lands sorted into grades, so you...- Hat and Rehat
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