I made a hat today!

[Bic]

TW, Crusader, Peg,
                            Thank You all for your kind remarks, my experiences show all too well even in the 'head shots' but I'm still new to this hat sharpening game, kinda fun really.

MP

[PegLeg45]

Cool process you used at your link in the OP.

Have you tried steam shaping?

Heck, I've found that I still like an aluminum pie-pan over a pot of boiling water better than anything else I've tried.....but an old tea kettle works pretty good too.

[fightingquaker13]

Cool process you used at your link in the OP.

Have you tried steam shaping?

Heck, I've found that I still like an aluminum pie-pan over a pot of boiling water better than anything else I've tried.....but an old tea kettle works pretty good too.

If you like doing it that's cool. But I've found that most western wear stores will steam and shape your hat either for free or for such a ridiculously low price that you feel compelled to tip the guy who does the work a ten spot. They have a steam machine and the staff is (usually, no promises)  trained to use it.
FQ13

[PegLeg45]

Like working on guns....it just ain't the same if you get someone else to do it.    

[Bic]

Cool process you used at your link in the OP.

Have you tried steam shaping?

Heck, I've found that I still like an aluminum pie-pan over a pot of boiling water better than anything else I've tried.....but an old tea kettle works pretty good too.

Yeah, when re-doing an old 'cardboardy' hat you need to start with the denatured alcohol (methanol) the driedout shellac stiffener, then acheive the desired shape, then 're-set' the shellac with steam. Newer or older finer felts  don't need the methnol treatment first.

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[fightingquaker13]

Yeah, when re-doing an old 'cardboardy' hat you need to start with the denatured alcohol (methanol) the driedout shellac stiffener, then acheive the desired shape, then 're-set' the shellac with steam. Newer or older finer felts  don't need the methnol treatment first.

OK BIC you might have answered a problem I have. My grand dad had a Stetson Tribly/short brimed cowboy hat
(its got kind of a 1930s FBI/Untouchables vibe to it). It doesn't fit anybody in the family and I hate to trash it. Its a silverbelly 3x Stetson circa 1960ish or earlier still in the orginal box. Its got two small moth holes but is otherwise perfect. Its 7 1/4. I take a 7 1/2. If you want it to play with customizing it,its yours for whatever the price of shipping is. Its very Melvin Purvis.
FQ13

[Bic]

Welllll, OK, send it. Don't worry too much about the packing as they have to be destroyed to be re-created. I take a 7 3/8 usually but it may stretch enough to work for me..Thanks!

PM sent.

[sledgemeister]

Here's the other dumb post 




'Trilby' is what we Brits call a short brimmed fedora, it comes from a play of the same name where a hat in that style was worn by a woman.

Thanks for that info FQ, I will endeavour to search them out.

MP

Damn I thought this was a pommy's national hat



well ya live and learn huh!

[Bic]

LOL........check on my sister up in Mount Glorious sometime Sledge - she's gone completely bush as far as I can tell.....if you'll pardon the expression 

[sledgemeister]

LOL........check on my sister up in Mount Glorious sometime Sledge - she's gone completely bush as far as I can tell.....if you'll pardon the expression 

If it wasnt 2500km away and across an ocean I probably would LOL

Going bush up there is a prerequiste of the local, those rainforrest dwellers are a breed of their own!