What's the turnaround time for alterations with Optimo?

[Blackthorn]

I know I could just call them, but then I get a salesman/woman who will give me a best case scenario and I prefer the voice of experience. I want a brim trim on one of my hats. If I send it to them on Wednesday, when can I realistically expect to have it back? I know there are lots of you with experience with their services.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yhey will start work on it the following week.

 

[fedoracentric]

From seeing their listing here, I did call them about cleaning up by granddad's hat and they said about 2 weeks or so.

 

[mayserwegener]

From seeing their listing here, I did call them about cleaning up by granddad's hat and they said about 2 weeks or so.

That seems to be about standard. I am sure this type of side work is not P1.

 

[Matt Deckard]

It's always been around a week, and it's always been a perfect job done.

 

[Blackthorn]

Thanks gentlemen, this has been a great help.

 

[TomS]

FWIW... I just had a complete refurb (including a down-size), and it was 10 days *round trip*.
Best,
Tom

 

[TipTop]

Anyone have a WESTERN hat brim trim by them?

 

[Blackthorn]

Thanks TomS!

 

[hatophile]

They usually get mine back within a week or two.

Tip, I have had a Western trimmed, Graham did a great job.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I think my green Churchill Open Road clone took about two weeks -- they cleaned the hat, trimmed the brim and rebound it beautifully. (They also rebashed it into a teardrop, which I had not asked for, but which I ended up liking. Be sure you state clearly what you want.)

Come to think of it, I have a grand Resistol OR clone that could use a cleaning and a restitching of the sweatband, and a green Crofut & Knapp teardrop fedora that could use cleaning and a sizing down. How far down can a hat reasonably be resized? From 7 1/4 to 7 1/8, say?

 

[hatophile]

I think my green Churchill Open Road clone took about two weeks -- they cleaned the hat, trimmed the brim and rebound it beautifully. (They also rebashed it into a teardrop, which I had not asked for, but which I ended up liking. Be sure you state clearly what you want.)

Come to think of it, I have a grand Resistol OR clone that could use a cleaning and a restitching of the sweatband, and a green Crofut & Knapp teardrop fedora that could use cleaning and a sizing down. How far down can a hat reasonably be resized? From 7 1/4 to 7 1/8, say?

Benz,

In my experience going up or down one size is not too much of a problem. More than that, you can run into issues with brim and crown size. Graham has resized several of my hats both ways and worked out fine.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Glad to hear it. I picked this C & K up at Meyer the Hatter about 15 years ago, before I was very experienced with hats, and I could never get it to fit me right even with padding. The other night I flipped down the sweat in it and saw that it was sized 7 1/4 -- way too big for me! But I like the way it's bashed, its narrow though not thin ribbon, and the width of the bound brim. If Graham could get it down to 7 1/8, I could probably pad it to fit fine from there.

'Twould be a good idea to send them off now, while I can't wear them due to the nasty heat. By fall (read: December, here) I'll have a whole new stable of lids.

 

[hatophile]

Good idea. I just had a passel of fur felts cleaned and blocked to be ready for the cooler weather here.