Woodfluter
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Go with your feelings, Luke...er, Cabe!
Much good advice above. However, I'd say:
1. Go open crown and mess with it until you are satisfied. Nothing here beyond your abilities. You will figure out what suits you. Gentle steaming will help.
2. Speaking as one who made dimensional brims long before the Indy movies came out...stick with uniform brim size and decide later. You can get it trimmed down or do it yourself if skilled, but you can't add on later. The non-dimensional (not trimmed on the side) is far more traditional. Unless it's a bound edge, which is a different story.
3. Don't obsess over height etc. There are ancient rules for fitting crown height and brim height to physiognomy...you can find them at the lounge somewhere...but really, every person is different and it's far more art than science. Just look and see what pleases you, and the rest of the world can adjust, thank you very much.
- Bill
Much good advice above. However, I'd say:
1. Go open crown and mess with it until you are satisfied. Nothing here beyond your abilities. You will figure out what suits you. Gentle steaming will help.
2. Speaking as one who made dimensional brims long before the Indy movies came out...stick with uniform brim size and decide later. You can get it trimmed down or do it yourself if skilled, but you can't add on later. The non-dimensional (not trimmed on the side) is far more traditional. Unless it's a bound edge, which is a different story.
3. Don't obsess over height etc. There are ancient rules for fitting crown height and brim height to physiognomy...you can find them at the lounge somewhere...but really, every person is different and it's far more art than science. Just look and see what pleases you, and the rest of the world can adjust, thank you very much.
- Bill
