Randall Renshaw
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After reading the little to be found on old threads about this brand I tend to agree with the guy that said this could be a pre-Resistol brand by Rolnick and Byer. Hence the two halves of this brand’s name: Rol-By.
Or at least a side brand they done while making Resistols.
What do y’all think—or know?
Only saw one other hat of this brand and it was the exact same color and Strat style. I’d say the color is a blue/purple.
This old beater was a size 7 that has been successfully stretched up to my size.
It’s a LOT of work, but for special hats like these it’s well worth it.
With this hat I’ve started using my own blend of shellac stiffener. Works SO much better than Bickmore’s Kahl brand. And it’s much cheaper and easy to make. $14 for an 8 ounce bottle. Doesn’t last long.
homemade stiffener cost much less and goes farther.
Also using a new RA composite hat block that has very little taper.
A cool thing to be able to report when doing a two size stretch is when reblocking you don’t lose any brim width.
Started and ended up with 2 3/4”.
It’s very tricky, but have been consistently pulling this off with the last 10 hats.
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