Bill Hughes
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Nice, the color is outstanding.I just picked this hat up. It deserves more effort for its debut, but I’m off to work and I couldn’t wait.
Cobalt blue 100% nutria felt (one of the new 160 gram felts from Sunrise). Open crown is just under 6 1/2 inches! The bound brim is a full three inches wide and the binding and crown ribbon/bow are in the color “blue metal.” The crown is super thin and very soft. Farther down the crown the felt thin lens and forms up. The brim is quite firm and substantial. The hand is very nice on the crown and brim, but there underlying firmness of the felt varies a great deal between the two. I like it a lot, and it encourages one to doff and don it by the brim rather than the crown. Like my other Nutrias from Gannon, the top of the crown is so thin and soft that you can blow a crease into it, but the felt has a lot of spring back and will take steam to get the shape right. This is an area where Gannon’s beaver hats are better than the nutria.
I think this hat wants to be brim up and I’m fine with that. I’m completely happy with how the hat turned out. It’s just quickly dry creased right now and it will take some time and effort to shape it how I want, but it’s a jewel and the color is even nicer than I hoped. Maybe even approaching Eric’s @Short Balding Guy cadet blue?
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