Akubra Overload

[barra063]

http://www.nungar.com.au/catalog/popup_image.php/pID/98

My Akubra Outback Club hat a red lining.

 

[jimmy the lid]

Have been wearing my Akubra "R.M." all day today -- thought I'd post a couple photos here:

Cheers,
JtL

 

[FurFeltFedora]

Wow, that's a great crease there JtL, really like the shape.

 

[jimmy the lid]

Thanks, FFF.

Cheers,
JtL

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

I wasn't sure where to post this, but I figured this was as good a place as any. I just wanted to thank you all for the suggestion to try the federation IV
...
Sadly, I think it's going to have to go back. I tried it on and think it's too large for my long, thin face, but I did enjoy the moment of receiving it and cracking open the packaging.
...

Don Vito,

I'm not sure what you've decided to do with your Fed. If you keep it, I would just 2nd what others have said. I would try a little bit deeper diamond or C shape to lower the crown just a little. Maybe sharpen up the front pinch and deepen the indentations. This might give it more angular features rather than round. Check out 3f's and Goose's bashes. Mine's a work in progress.

 

[Don Vito]

Chuck-
I decided it's a keeper. I bashed it last night, working with it for quite a while, so its now quite bash-full. I'll try to post some pics today if I can get around taking the photographs of it. I'm fairly pleased with my first....okay, several attempts to bash.

I have to say that once I shaped it and wore it around the house for a bit, it felt like I wasn't even wearing it.

 

[FurFeltFedora]

Don Vito I'm glad you kept it. I have 6 Federation IVs and I understand your initial feelings. When I got my first one and put it on I nearly cried. I could stick my ears up in it and I looked like the village idiot with it on. BUT I did a lot of research here on FL and I started working on it. Steaming it, shaping the crown, working the pinch and side dents, flipping the brim down in the front, up at the back and curling the sides. When I was all done it looked nothing like before and it fit much better. A touch of that foam in the sweatband and the fit was perfect.

And remember, unless you put a really hard crease in you can always steam it back to the way it was and start again.

Now get some more pictures up so we can see how you're doing with!!

 

[Don Vito]

Here are a few. I think I'll eventually try to get more curl on the sides and go with a deeper pinch up front, but all in all I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[FurFeltFedora]

Nicely done Don Vito, nicely done. :eusa_clap

Your tugboat effect is really good (Goose would be proud) and your crown is nice too. If you want to smooth out some of the bumps in the crown steam it well (10 seconds) and smooth it with your fingers a few times.

As for the brim I think I little more swoop in the front will really help set it off. If it makes you feel any better when I started I had almost no swoop or curl in my brim - not so any more. Have fun with it

 

[Don Vito]

Thank you. Who knew bashing could be so much fun...except of course the folks here at FL.

I'll give the smoothing out a shot. What do you mean by swoop in front? Do you mean like your avatar? (which by the way is a great looking hat.)

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

Thank you. Who knew bashing could be so much fun...except of course the folks here at FL.

I'll give the smoothing out a shot. What do you mean by swoop in front? Do you mean like your avatar? (which by the way is a great looking hat.)

Looks good! Personally, I think the bumps (wrinkles) give it some character. I like a crown when it looks like the owner bashed it without too much over thinking and it doesn't look like it was perfectly bashed on a bashing machine.

Glad to hear you are getting comfortable with it.

3F, Still looking forward to the carbon grey Fed photos.

 

[FurFeltFedora]

For you Chuck I will do them tonight

I've got all 5 shades now, just got to post the black ones and shoot the carbon. Carbon I'll up for sure tonight.

 

[FurFeltFedora]

Akubra Federation IV in Carbon

Okay, just for Chuck (no one else even matters ) here is my Carbon Fed IV (black is here but not posted yet, probably tomorrow and then a comparison of all 5 maybe by the weekend). BTW, this was probably the hardest one to shoot and try and get the true colour of the hat. Carbon can be gray or black or carbon depending on the angle and lighting. I think I got it pretty close especially in the shot where I'm wearing it.

And my ever pale and pleasant mug once more...

Now what are ya gonna bug me about Chuck?

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

Now what are ya gonna bug me about Chuck?

Why...why, nothing 3F, you're doing just fine...

Okay...there is one more thing. If you could just purchase the carbon grey "Fedora" and photograph it next to the carbon grey Fed, I'm trying to choose between the two. Then that should be all I need...and this paddle game...and that's all I'll need.

 

[FurFeltFedora]

You are NOT getting the paddle game

Actually I was going to order the Fedora but decided against it at the time. And if I was going to get one, I'd probably get the Burnt Oak, so really, you're screwed on that one. Ask Goose though, he's got both hats

 

[Goose.]

Oh yeah...I gotta do that.
Today/tonight...Eagle Scout's Honor.

Right now, I'm going to go dig up another row in the yard for the wife's Victory Garden :eusa_doh:

 

[Chuck Bobuck]

Oh yeah...I gotta do that.
Today/tonight...Eagle Scout's Honor.

Right now, I'm going to go dig up another row in the yard for the wife's Victory Garden :eusa_doh:

You're gonna get your Capricorn muddy!

 

[Mike K.]

I just posted a more extensive set of photos on a different thread (http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=807790#post807790), but wanted to add this pic to the main Akubra thread. This is the original "safari-ized" Akubra Riverina two years after the world famous adventure began...a little stained, sun-bleached, and scratched but you might never know it from this photo.

 

[Mike K.]

Fed IV brim size question

Question - do your Fed IV brim sizes measure out the same as what Hats Direct says they should be?

Just wondering because the dimensional brim on my tawny fawn measures out correctly (63x70mm), but my moonstone was cut shorter on the sides than it should have been (59x70mm).

 

[Goose.]

You are NOT getting the paddle game

Actually I was going to order the Fedora but decided against it at the time. And if I was going to get one, I'd probably get the Burnt Oak, so really, you're screwed on that one. Ask Goose though, he's got both hats

Oakie doke...here ya go. A Capricorn Grey, Sydney CHARCOAL, and Fed IV Carbon. I don't have a Carbon Sydney. That would be what is called the "Fedora" on the Hats Direct site (the Sydney is from David Morgan). ValEag has a Fedora Carbon I seem to recall. Haven't seen him around though. If you search for "Sydney" you will probably see it by itself.

The Sydney was my first Akubra. Given the choice between a Federation or Sydney, I'd choose the Fed. I prefer the non-taper of the Fed. But, to each his own.

You're gonna get your Capricorn muddy!

HA! Lesson learned. Wore my oil cloth Packer this time