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[BR Gordon]

Alive, That Cavanagh is one beautiful hat. I love everything about it, proportions, color, and ribbon. What's the crown height?

 

[Marshall]

Congrats Alive, that is one swell lid!

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

Thanks, guys! I'm very excited about it! The crown is 5 3/4" open. Size is 7 1/4 snug. Brim width is 2 3/8". I would consider this color as taupe, but the tag says CAV GREY.

 

[hatophile]

A'n A that's a killer hat!

 

[randooch]

Alive, That Cavanagh is one beautiful hat. I love everything about it, proportions, color, and ribbon.

Hear! Hear!

 

[suitedcboy]

Love that Cavanagh!

BTW, You look like Tom Cruise in that photo.........

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

BR, Hatophile, Randooch, SuitedCBoy:

Thanks for all the awesome comments!!

CBoy, most people tell Tom Cruise that he looks ME!

Cheers everyone!

 

[bowlerman]

Yeah, man. That is a sweet, sweet Cav. I wouldn't change a thing about the blocking/creasing, and the color is amazing. That's a hall-of-famer for sure!

I just received the holy grail I never knew existed. I'm practically hyperventilating, nerding out right now.

vintage Knox Extra Quality vented brown derby!

 

[job]

Cool Bowler man Bowlerman, I have never seen a vented one before. Do you know the age of the hat?

 

[bowlerman]

No idea. I'll have to ask others to weigh in on that.

 

[randooch]

'Zounds, Jeff, that certainly deserves a top shelf position within your collection. What an unusual and well-preserved doiby! It even looks good atop your bean.

Ps. Good pun re: hyperventilation.

 

[bowlerman]

lol! Sadly, that one was not intended! After your comment, I'm quadriventilating with laughter!

 

[hatophile]

Jeff, unusual bowler indeed. I think some with vents have been posted,but they are few and far between. Very cool!

 

[delectans]

Magnificent bowler man! lol Technically, it is a derby of course, but by any name an astonishingly nice, rare, and early example. Any stickers under the hood?

 

[Doomstein]

I don't know if this counts, but I'm almost done making my own hat. So "technically" newly acquired? It's a straight sided crown, about 5 3/4" unbashed. I trimmed down the brim to 2 1/2 inches with a home made rounding jack (worked ****pily, back to the drawing board)

Materials

Blocked, ironed and pounced

Dry Bashed

I threw on a temporary ribbon I whipped up

Side view of the temporary ribbon.

Later I'm going to clean up the hat body and add more shellac, flange this rascal, fix the brim trimming, sew in the sweatband, put in the liner and maybe put on a wider ribbon.

 

[tomb1013]

Nice work, that is something I want to try and do one day!

 

[Doomstein]

Nice work, that is something I want to try and do one day!

ty, it really is a fun hobby. And this way I can have as many hats with the same dimensions as the 'Stetson Nostalgia' or 'Akubra Fed I' as I want, and not have to wait till my teeth fall out for some to come up for auction in my size : D

 

[Alive'n'Amplified]

Terrific job, Doom! How long did it take you to find the right block?

 

[RobFedoraField]

Echter Borsalino, light brown, measures around 59cm, probably late 1950s.

Beautiful!

Picked this up on ebay a few nights ago, was advertised as possibly being a Fed III, but ended up being a Fed I. It has a non-dimensional 2.5" brim and a 5" or so crown bashed, 5.5" unbashed. I love this hat!

This is my second Akubra (I have a moonstone fed IV) and I think I've found my kicking around hat!

how did I miss this ?!?

Never bashed or worn nos dobbs

Absolutely beautiful I found one nearly identical to that a couple of years back, but alas it was too small. btw, is that a colt?

 

[rlk]

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