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Show off your Porkpies
Pa, you are showing some tight creasing skills! Are you reading Ermatinger, or just experimenting? Either way, you are doing good work! You seem to have a sculptor's way, much like my buddy T. Jones... -
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Hat Stiffeners
Did you block & flange, or is this all by hand? Either way, it looks great, but if this was all by hand, I am truly impressed! -
Ask a question, get an answer
I agree with Landman. This matches my experience, except when a liner is very floppy, in which case it can be steamed and maybe even lightly starched back to shape over a block or can. I never glue liners on any hat. I stitch them. On my own personal hats, I sometimes tape them with strips... -
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Hat Stiffeners
Pretty decent analysis. Detergent also helps with the felting process, although I cannot recall the mechanism. Motion would seem to help the fibers bind, as it is the wet heat & kneading motion on the battery that makes the fibers felt in the first place. -
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Jack London
Go to the ranch in Sonoma if you can. It will blow your mind. I went as a child, but still remember lifted and rotating feeding troughs for hogs, so they had to stand and walk on their hind legs and their hams would consequently be bigger, and also concrete floors with gutters in the pig pens...- John Galt
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The Resistol Roundup
Can't help with timing, but the Wide Country was another Resistol OR clone I've seen. Usually, with a Texas imprinted liner & sweat. -
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Joker's hat
I was actually joking. I like it as a western, and bought it for my daughter ;-) -
Hat Stiffeners
I misspoke, I meant to say shellac - it's a mistake I seem prone to make... -
Hat Stiffeners
It is my understanding that lacquer is not water soluble, so rain should neither break it down nor wash it away. I imagine that the heat that softens the lacquer also allows it to reform more soundly... -
Joker's hat
Good work, that! Well done! I'm glad I checked this thread out. Now maybe I have a use for my purple cowboy hat... -
Adventurebilt hats status update (read if you have an outstanding order)
It's hard for me to fathom that this discussion has devolved to the point that banning one of the premier custom hatters in the world from the Fedora Lounge is even a topic of conversation. -
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Hat Stiffeners
See my warning in the convo corral about acetate in ribbon. -
Joker's hat
The real hat was just a photo I grabbed - found doing a search, but no claim to being the one worn by anyone in any movie. -
Joker's hat
I agree that it does not look like a pork pie. I can't say with certainty, but the joker hat looks like a real flat top. Like this costume hat sold contemporaneously with the 1989 movie: And this real hat, found online: -
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