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Akubra Campdraft

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...I know you guys know this stuff, but I'm hopeful you veterans find some joy in watching your little ones find their wings.
Quality hats have a learning curve just like anything else. Fortunately, The Lounge is one of the best (if not the best) resources for information, so you're in the right place.

By the way, I think the higher crown does indeed suit you better.
 

JoeyC

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Dave that hat looks great on you. I much prefer the re-crease. I like my CD's with a simple center crease, no pinch and a slightly dipped front, sort of western look, I find that suits me best in the CD's as well as some of my OR's. Others I place soft dents in and snap the brims. I try to let the hat sort of dictate how I shape it, crown height and block, brim width etc. and of course how it looks on me.

Wear it well.

Joe
 

tropicalbob

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I've already sold my first few hats on eBay. I once thought they were perfect. Now they look to me like miniature toy hats. If this CD becomes the norm, I may have a few others to unload.

Design really is a strange thing. I mentioned on another thread that years ago I bought my first brand-new car, and I sat on the curb like an idiot staring at the thing: it looked like the latest offering from NASA. Five years later I walk out the door and Jed Clampett's truck is sitting by the curb. What happened? Little by little car designs changed, and I hadn't noticed it. It's what the eye gets used to.
 

job

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It's a cool thing when you've played around with a hat off and on and finally look at it and give it the thumbs up and go aaaaaaaaahhhh like Fonzie.
 

konadog

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here's my new silverbelly heritage from hatsdirect pre bash. thinking of doing a proper center dent with side pinches to get a slightly tapered look. IMG_1148.jpg IMG_1149.jpg
 
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Nice hat! My Akubra CD in silverbelly needed lots if steam and distilled water misting to get the center dent and pinches deep n smooth.
Misting? I sprayed the hell out of mine with distilled water--not quite enough to soak all the way through the felt, but enough to saturate it nicely--and I was able to mold 'em like clay. And they've both held their shapes well ever since.
 

konadog

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since i also need to block this guy long oval, would you recommend i go to a good hat shop or just mist the heck out of it, put in a hat stretcher, and mold it to the bash i want? again, this is the heritage model.
 

Bob Roberts

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since i also need to block this guy long oval, would you recommend i go to a good hat shop or just mist the heck out of it, put in a hat stretcher, and mold it to the bash i want? again, this is the heritage model.

I've heard that wetting combined w the stretcher can increase the taper. Personally I dont like alot of taper and would go to a shop.
 

jlee562

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Theoretically, I could see the front to back taper being stretched out a little bit, but just easing it out isn't likely to do much from a head on view to make the crown look more tapered. A lot depends on the blockshape too.
 

89quattro

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In case anyone is interested, looks like Everything Australian has the full size range of bluegrass green Campdrafts back in stock. My 64 cm shipped out yesterday.
 
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