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  1. Will Morgan

    Lanolux anyone?

    Cheers Rob, for some time I have enjoyed reading the lounge with some regularity, and posting upon occasion.
  2. Will Morgan

    Lanolux anyone?

    Dear S, You guessed exactly right, vibrations during shipping put what we call a 'packing mark' around the hat. Some counter clockwise brushing, or some steam and brushing together, or just time and some rain... will resettle the nap. We put a care video up on Youtube that shows one...
  3. Will Morgan

    Driving hat?

    I think it would be better to just cut the back off of a full brim fur felt! - We sell a driver's cap made by Jacaru in Australia of thin and strong Kangaroo leather that has been quite popular:
  4. Will Morgan

    hat store in NYC?

    Paragon Sports in Manhattan has a few Akubras 867 Broadway at 18th Street.
  5. Will Morgan

    Adam Savage of MythBusters

    I just wrote Adam Savage, he has indeed worn the Akubra Bushman on Mythbusters, we'd sold him two in the past. Perhaps the Drover before that, our records don't go back that far, but he wore a Drover before the Bushman and is now onto a custom hat from Knudsen in Pleasant Hills near where...
  7. Will Morgan

    Curling a brim

    Scientific Hat Finishing and Renovating, by Henry L Ermatinger "a complete and profusely illustrated course of instruction, enabling the novice to acquire the art of finishing and remodeling hats of all varieties according to tested and approved methods (1919)" is a great reference for...
  8. Will Morgan

    Akubra disapointment

    Ouch. Too often low prices advertised by low-balling, goal-hanging website storefronts hide costly basic-service shortcuts: Is the hat shown stocked? Can it be returned economically should there be a problem? In my view Akubra cannot survive as a cut-rate discount brand. The quality...
  9. Will Morgan

    Cowboy Shaping

    You might find this video on shaping a cowboy hat with steam useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PaRu9RDoY - http://akubra-usa.com/ http://davidmorgan.com/
  10. Will Morgan

    Akubra from Australia to US

    Looking past the rank dishonesty, the silly thing about encouraging a supplier to lie about whether a hat is a gift/ sample or not is that there is no duty on fur felt hats coming into the US from Australia: Tarrif code 65059004 Brief Description Hats and headgear of fur felt made from hat...
  11. Will Morgan

    We need a name for a hat style

    In their catalog Akubra classifies their styles as Country, Western, Fashion and Straw. When describing the styles to dealers I refer to the "Country" hats such as the Snowy River, Cattleman etc... as Outback hats, Fair Dinkum!
  13. Will Morgan

    Hat Measurer Tool

    Thank you very much kind sir, we got ours today! I do believe we'll be doing a good deal less band block swinging around here... Will http://davidmorgan.com/
  14. Will Morgan

    Does anyone wear their hats tipped back?

    There is jaunty, and then there is cattywhampus! I've noticed that I tilt my hat back when I go into a store and want to appear friendly and polite without actually taking my hat off.
  15. Will Morgan

    My Akubra Sydney video review

    Thanks for the props Charlz! I'm very glad you like your hat.
  16. Will Morgan

    Western, anyone?

    Howdy Y'all. Please pardon the lassoing this here thread, but it seems on topic, we just got a new Akubra style into stock, the "Burke and Wills". Akubra does well in the US cattle / agricultural / horse market with the Boss, the Kiandra, the Snowy etc.. as crossover western shapes...
  17. Will Morgan

    Hat Measurer Tool

    Jordan thanks much for the additional info, that gave me what I need to know! I would like to order one. I can do paypal which costs the receiver a bit i believe, or check, or money order... Ever the optimist, but trying to protect your position and the community too by making the terms...
  19. Will Morgan

    Ordering hats from the USA

    International reputation matters. Credit scam wise we have only got ripped off once over a decade in shipping to Japan. We insist on Western Union for orders say, to pick an extreme case, Nigeria. The problems we face shipping internationally are more with customers being surprised...
  20. Will Morgan

    Hat Measurer Tool

    We'd sure like to have one of these, if it works... but I am concerned as to why the manufacturer doesn't put them up for sale in a normal fashion, accepting returns. I certainly appreciate the effort you are putting in to facilitate a group buy, but could use more information if I'm going to...
  21. Will Morgan

    Choosing D.M. Adventurer or Akubra Fed

    Hi Gerry, the answer to this question is yes, Akubra delivers the goods to us in North America as well as they do for their Australian dealers! Also please keep in mind that when we at David Morgan designed this hat to serve the indy market, and learned we could re-use the name "Adventurer"...
  22. Will Morgan

    Musician's hats

    For shame I didn't wear a hat at the open mic I went to last night... there weren't a lot of bright stage lights to cut though... still the guy after me had his fedora on. Putting my Akubra salesman's hat on: Edie of Edie hats in Vancouver BC talks up the White Stripe's visit to her store in...
  23. Will Morgan

    Akubra Kiandra

    Riot I just applied the wet finger test to a size range within our stock of dark fawn Kiandras and some small amount of color indeed appears on my finger with every swipe, but this is colored felt, not dye alone. The color being fast to the felt, if we are looking at the same issue I don't...

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