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Photos of hatters tools
I’m also interested in how well that work for you. I saw their sales pitch video about a year and a half ago when I was getting started with hat making and was intrigued. I didn’t get one because it looked a bit tricky having to use both hands for the tool. -
Photos of hatters tools
I’m quite envious of your purchase from JW. I agree that those brass ones are beautiful, but overpriced in my opinion. Looks like they are using the “We’ll only sell a few so we’ll mark them way up to make a good profit “ model of pricing as opposed to basing it on actual manufacturing cost plus... -
Photos of hatters tools
Woah, that’s expensive! Even more than an original. I recently finally got my hand on an original, and have been thinking of casting reproductions at some point to sell for about half of that price -
Tabletop Hatters of The Lounge
Winchester has a 2-ply ribbon listed in their price list. Not certain if it’s the same, but worth checking out. -
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Tabletop Hatters of The Lounge
Thank you! This particular block is my own design. I carved one myself, and then got a few made by a company in England. Hat Blocks Direct if I remember right. Their prices are really reasonable. I also have a handful of 52’s, one or two 522’s (nearly identical to a 52) a 51 and a couple... -
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Tabletop Hatters of The Lounge
Here’s a fedora I made about a year ago. Started making my own hats about a year and a half ago, and have been working towards doing it professionally. The felt is 100% beaver from Winchester, the band is vintage rayon I bought off of eBay. The liner was made by me from satin lining material... -
Tabletop Hatters of The Lounge
I’ve shrunk a few oversized hat bodies so far, and there is a really easy way to do it. Moisten the felt, put it on your smaller block, and then run your string down the block to the bottom. Once you’ve done that, iron the heck out of the crown and it will shrink to fit the block. If you’re... -
Adding stiffener to a straw hat
The paper straws are definitely not meant to last, but the natural stuff definitely does, and was originally meant to last. The amount of work that goes into the prep of real straw is much to intensive for it to have been a throwaway item before mass production. I had a palm straw hat from the... -
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It's Spring. Show your Straw hats if you have 'em
And a boater I just purchased off ebay. Second one I’ve owned, and very nice. A couple cracks in the straw, but I was abke to fix the one in the brim, and the other is nearly invisible. It has a stiff net liner, which is the first I’ve ever seen. There’s a sticker under the sweatband with 1919... -
It's Spring. Show your Straw hats if you have 'em
This is a Panama I just dinished a couple days ago. -
Adding stiffener to a straw hat
I’ve recently been working with some Panama straw bodies, and I find a couple light coats of clear spray shellac makes for a very nice stiffness that holds shape, but doesn’t make the hats crispy. I used milliners spray sizing at first, and won’t ever use it again. It was foul, and even after it... -
Photos of hatters tools
Hi Anne, it looks as though this is for measuring brims, and maybe crown hight. Judging by the little brass knob, it looks like you could slide the inner part out and put it against the side of the crown with the main part lined up with the brim esge to get an accurate measurement. The... -
Photos of hatters tools
Hi Marcelle. I haven’t made one of these, but I am good at reverse engineering things. It should be fairly easy for you to copy this. It looks like it’s just a really basic binding tape attachment, with a plate added on top to feed the leather. If you wanted to keep it ultra simple, you could... -
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Joker's hat
Stubled across this thread, and figured I’ Add to it in case the OP never found what they were looking for. The hat you want is a type called a tando. It is the classic zoot suit hat. They have a low-ish telescoped crown(about 3.5-4”) and usually about a 4” brim(although you could cut it down... -
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Thank for the response. I hadn’t looked closely at the ones JW Hats sells. I’m not making anywhere near enough hats to justify one of these yet. I will probably build my own when it comes time though. -
Photos of hatters tools
That’s a really nice machine! Is that the one JW sells? -
Making a Western hat by hand?
Sorry about the fall. I’m glad it wasn’t more serious. -
Photos of hatters tools
I was just reminded of your post about this. I just recently got one off ebay, and plan to have it running soon. There are a few videos on YouTube of people sewing hats with these, and there is a sewing machine company in NYC that services and has parts for them. They also have a few videos on...
