Sitting on pins and needles would best now describe the excitement that I am exuding at this point. I waited for about 2 hours like a dummy that I am waiting for a picture of a hat I have on order to appear on the computer screen. I finally had the good sense to refresh my screen and there it was. Mind you it is currently a cloth covered mound a top a wooden circle. I do hope to accurately describe this.
I hope not to bore all with my excitement but I wish to start from the beginning.
About one month earlier, I began a search for custom hat companies. During this time I have sent out a multitude of emails to various hat companies. I was hoping to make contact with at least 5 or more and sample their products. Unfortunately, I was not greeted with the overwhelming spam I had anticipated from a 1000 hatters where my information had been sold but instead got only a single reply initially.
Subsequently, I was invited to come and join a hat forum. having no knowledge of such I hesitantly procrastinated thinking again, it may be some way of getting personal information from me and I get an ample amount of spam already.
I continued emailing back and forth to the Gladhatter hat company and each time I received a prompt an courteous email reply. I reluctantly finally agreed to join that hat forum. Then reading briefly on here daily, I found there was this wonderful forum as well comprised of the many gentlemen here. I was delighted to then subscribe to it and one or 2 also advertised on the first forum that seems devoted to Indiana Jones trivia and the like.
Back to my hat adventure. I continued emailing and I inquired about other hatters that may be recommended and was supplied a fair listing of them. After exhaustive emailing to various ones, I further inquired with the Gladhatter yet again. Reading on that forum, you tend to get an idea that the gentleman is a cad and a touch brusque to say, However he promptly answered all my emails and flooded me with information's on each bequest I had sent out. I usually do not move so quickly but was simply overwhelmed with the more than copious replies and a hint of southern charm and I decided to place an order for the finest hat he had to offer. he informed me while more expensive hat existed, that he felt more than confident that his 1500X hat would suit all my needs. I issued payment henceforth and then requested a sampling of his product. What I got was a halo like head measuring devise and also a sample of various colors of sweat bands, possible hat liners, a color swatch of potential colors and a fully finished hat with instructions to return it along with the halo and a tracing of my head shape.
Just today I was reading there on the forum and I seen he was about to display some ones finished hat photos and along with some of the early stages of the hat in progress. I ask for photos of my hat and got what I described above. he assures me that this unsightly mess will with skilled hands transform into a finished hat. I decided long ago on a chocolate brown sample from his color swatches and sure enough there it was. Now I remain skeptical of this process as it does not seem possible to get from point A to point A but then the evidence points to a certain success. I finally decided to have my hat styled in the Indiana Jones style based on the hat that BD Jones displayed on here. I ask if this was possible and was informed it was certain on my request . I initially was seeking a far different high crowned hat but am delighted that I can settle this hat that I have admired for so long and actually have it as the first in a long line of hats that I wish to replace.
Please forgive my lengthy dialogue here but I am just over wrought with excitement for now.
I do hope you can all join me in my excitement as it seems the adventure has begun officially now.
Cheers
Scott
I hope not to bore all with my excitement but I wish to start from the beginning.
About one month earlier, I began a search for custom hat companies. During this time I have sent out a multitude of emails to various hat companies. I was hoping to make contact with at least 5 or more and sample their products. Unfortunately, I was not greeted with the overwhelming spam I had anticipated from a 1000 hatters where my information had been sold but instead got only a single reply initially.
Subsequently, I was invited to come and join a hat forum. having no knowledge of such I hesitantly procrastinated thinking again, it may be some way of getting personal information from me and I get an ample amount of spam already.
I continued emailing back and forth to the Gladhatter hat company and each time I received a prompt an courteous email reply. I reluctantly finally agreed to join that hat forum. Then reading briefly on here daily, I found there was this wonderful forum as well comprised of the many gentlemen here. I was delighted to then subscribe to it and one or 2 also advertised on the first forum that seems devoted to Indiana Jones trivia and the like.
Back to my hat adventure. I continued emailing and I inquired about other hatters that may be recommended and was supplied a fair listing of them. After exhaustive emailing to various ones, I further inquired with the Gladhatter yet again. Reading on that forum, you tend to get an idea that the gentleman is a cad and a touch brusque to say, However he promptly answered all my emails and flooded me with information's on each bequest I had sent out. I usually do not move so quickly but was simply overwhelmed with the more than copious replies and a hint of southern charm and I decided to place an order for the finest hat he had to offer. he informed me while more expensive hat existed, that he felt more than confident that his 1500X hat would suit all my needs. I issued payment henceforth and then requested a sampling of his product. What I got was a halo like head measuring devise and also a sample of various colors of sweat bands, possible hat liners, a color swatch of potential colors and a fully finished hat with instructions to return it along with the halo and a tracing of my head shape.
Just today I was reading there on the forum and I seen he was about to display some ones finished hat photos and along with some of the early stages of the hat in progress. I ask for photos of my hat and got what I described above. he assures me that this unsightly mess will with skilled hands transform into a finished hat. I decided long ago on a chocolate brown sample from his color swatches and sure enough there it was. Now I remain skeptical of this process as it does not seem possible to get from point A to point A but then the evidence points to a certain success. I finally decided to have my hat styled in the Indiana Jones style based on the hat that BD Jones displayed on here. I ask if this was possible and was informed it was certain on my request . I initially was seeking a far different high crowned hat but am delighted that I can settle this hat that I have admired for so long and actually have it as the first in a long line of hats that I wish to replace.
Please forgive my lengthy dialogue here but I am just over wrought with excitement for now.
I do hope you can all join me in my excitement as it seems the adventure has begun officially now.
Cheers
Scott
