Hey, I'm in need of some old sweatbands or sweatband leather from shot or ruined sweatbands.
I'm looking for anything I can salvage or use.
I'm mostly looking for the light orange brown finished sweatbands that were pre 1950s
The Mallory sweatbands from the pliafelt, or Mallory 10s or the...
Yeah, I figured it's like Stetsons old vita felt, or bonds airlite, or champs featherweight.
As Mallory was one of the major hat makers in the earlier 1900s I'm hopping someone has seen one of these and or know what years it was possibly made.
I can find Mallory fedoras and derbys all the way...
I tried searching for some stuff on Mallory "Feather-Felts" I haven't been able to find anything. I know the "cravenette" process felt came out before the early 30"s possibly around or before 1920.
If anyone has seen one of these hats, or has heard of it.. or even has seen a old advertising ad...
Cool abba let us know how it works.. if you can take before and after pics even if it becomes a mess lol
I'll shoot you a reply DOGMAN let me see what I'm doing in the next few days coming up I'll know later today, it might be easiuer to throw it in a plan white envelope and stick a stamp on it...
Hey I'm in the Cleveland area also I could probably meet up with you to get it or I can I'm you a shipping address I want to try it
The thing I'm interested most about it is it says it can be dry cleaned in different solvents
I know super glue and other glues will break down in solvents...
if nobody else wants to give it a shot I'm going to eventually try it, I don't have a hat I don't really care about.. the product is relatively cheap so whenever I run into a hat I can try it on I plan to..
Someone can even try on brim trimmings we'd just need to test it on some fur an inch by...
Not to knock on the glue and stuff method but I bumped this thread trying to bring attention to these mending crystsls/powder
We all have vintage hats.. what if the hat winds up with someone elsed down the road, if it's dry cleaned or tossed in naphtha you can be sure that glue is gonna break...
So there's 3 products bo Nash, super mend, and those mending crystals on eBay
And it might honestly be the only way possible to permanently fix a hole are large moth divot in a hat.. besides from what I've read about refelting the hole with a felting needle.. I've never seen it work though...
I'm bumping this instead of starting a new post
It's called super mend, I remember it on tv..
Here's an Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/bonding-powder-SUPERMEND-countries-container/dp/B00FK86OSY
They also have mending crystals on eBay, same type of thing..
My questions now.. has anyone...
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