scottyrocks
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Thank you, Al and Red.
Re the front pinch, my wife has already expressed an opinion of the hat both ways, and she preferred the original 'bash,' I think because she dislikes hats on me that have a 'tall' crown. The original 6-point, wide crease effectively made the whole crown appear shorter.
But when I tightened up the front crease (before loosening it again) she said it looked better than when it was loose because the tight front pinch brings the crown down just enough to be able to perceive that's it's just a little shorter.
I did the same thing the other day on my sage green John Cavanagh. When I tightened the front pinch it made a dramatic perceived difference in the crown height. Originally it was massive for my head and face, but now is more proportional, again, for my head and face.
I had wanted a green hat for a long time, and I finally made the decision to have one made back in December, and placed my order around that time.
Then in July I was lucky enough to snag a grail hat of mine in the moon sell-off - his sage green John Cavanagh with the copper ribbon. So now I have two green hats with copper ribbons, but that's more than fine because I just love that color combination.
While I was speaking with John Penman about the hat, I was vacillating between a Raiders and a true custom he was going to design for me, at first in another color combo. After much anxiety on my part, I settled on his 'Penman' model in the green and copper, the color choices fueled mostly by the John Cavanagh that I had not known at that time would come into my possession.
So what I essentially ended up with, after my reshaping, is an overall smaller but proportional Indy-type hat, which is perfect for me, as a dimensionally correct true-to-size one tends to swallow me up. Loving earth tones, the colors on my hat are perfect, afaic, as the green and copper pushes all my correct buttons.
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