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[sergejvandervreede]

Received a Stratoliner from Canada this morning. Could hardly wait to try it on.

It's more of a greenish-khaki that the seller's notion of brown. Here's a side-by-side with my chocolate brown Cavanagh.

The hat is far from perfect, but at least I now have one of the hats I've been wanting.

The ribbon is sweat-stained.

There's a spot of something sticky on the back of the crown.

Someone put a STAPLE in the sweat (promptly removed).

But I now have a Stratoliner!

Any suggestions for someone to refurbish this one to bring it back to life?

No idea how you bring a hat back to life, but I love the color. Very versatile!

 

[tommyK]

Received a Stratoliner from Canada this morning. Could hardly wait to try it on.

It's more of a greenish-khaki that the seller's notion of brown. Here's a side-by-side with my chocolate brown Cavanagh.

The hat is far from perfect, but at least I now have one of the hats I've been wanting.

The ribbon is sweat-stained.

There's a spot of something sticky on the back of the crown.

Someone put a STAPLE in the sweat (promptly removed).

But I now have a Stratoliner!

Any suggestions for someone to refurbish this one to bring it back to life?

S4C, I haven't seen anything that will completely eliminate the sweat stains on the crown ribbon. Mine was in a similar state, I removed it and turned it around and inside out so the offending sweat stains were at the back and less visible.

A hat brush and a tea kettle can work wonders to clean up old felts.

If you need to touch up or reshape the brim or crown you'll have to get some hat blocks and brim flanges. Beware as the Stratoliner had specific a hat block #122 and brim flanges were also proprietary. If you're not careful you could alter the character of the hat.

 

[tommyK]

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Nasty dark sweatstain
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turned around and inside out

 

[Strapped-4-Cache]

Yep. I'm not that brave. Not gonna experiment on a hat like this one.

I've already contacted Bond to check on having the hat refurbed. Better to leave it to a professional.

 

[tommyK]

I learned on much less expensive and important hats. You're doing the right thing

 

[Bob Roberts]

Received a Stratoliner from Canada this morning. Could hardly wait to try it on.

It's more of a greenish-khaki that the seller's notion of brown. Here's a side-by-side with my chocolate brown Cavanagh.

The hat is far from perfect, but at least I now have one of the hats I've been wanting.

The ribbon is sweat-stained.

There's a spot of something sticky on the back of the crown.

Someone put a STAPLE in the sweat (promptly removed).

But I now have a Stratoliner!

Any suggestions for someone to refurbish this one to bring it back to life?

Try misting and throughly saturating the ENTIRE ribbon with distilled water. The stains may dissolve and assimilate evenly into the ribbon. ITS WORKED FOR ME!

 

[moontheloon]

Received a Stratoliner from Canada this morning. Could hardly wait to try it on.


The hat is far from perfect, but at least I now have one of the hats I've been wanting.


But I now have a Stratoliner!

congrats .... looks great on you too

the Strats get addicting ... be careful

I got my first one a couple weeks ago ... and I already have 3 .... 2 from the 1940s and one marked 1959

I've fallen in love with the Stratoliner

 

[Knotten]

This Dobbs Milan "Gate" porkpie came today. Now all I need is a warm day.

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[hatsRme]

Pork Pie Perfection, Knotten! Perfectly perched! Really well done, man.

 

[Knotten]

Thanks! It's my first porkpie. I'm liking it.


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[tommyK]

+1 on the Pork Pie Perfection, Knotten! Looks great!

 

[se couvrir]

Alfred Fox Oxford (UK). Black velour. Don't know who made it for Fox - a very nice hat, but slightly let down by a faux leather sweatband.







Chris

 

[DJH]

Arrived today from Mike Moore at Buckaroo Hatters

 

[javadave61]

Arrived today from Mike Moore at Buckaroo Hatters

Love that brim!

 

[1mach1]

Arrived today from Mike Moore at Buckaroo Hatters

Knocking them dead, David!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rogera]

You make a mighty fine Texan David! Congrats on the new lid!

 

[bowlerman]

Awesome.


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[Joao Encarnado]

Arrived today from Mike Moore at Buckaroo Hatters

Love it!

 

[tommyK]

Very cool velour, Chris. It's always good getting a hat with the date in it.

DJH, Wow! Great hat and great tooled leather band

 

[DJH]

Thank you guys. I've been wanting to have Mike make me a hat for ages, we've talked about it in the past but not worked out until now.

I'm thinking it was well worth waiting for.