Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

[Hat and Rehat]

I bought one of these. I had a Montecristi that I thought needed a more pronounced curl. Worked great.

I was able to take it from this.
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To this.
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Nice job! It didn't take long at all to get the technique down, did it?

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[humanshoes]

I have a brim curling tool on order so I needed some hats to practice on:

Akubra (unknown model):

Akubra Cattleman:

Resistol 4X:

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Those all look like great candidates for your new curling iron Brent. Can't wait to see pics of the finished work.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I bought one of these. I had a Montecristi that I thought needed a more pronounced curl. Worked great.

I was able to take it from this.
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To this.
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That looks great, Bill. I hope my attempts turn out so well.


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[Hagwood]

I was going to offer almost the same opinion as Brent until I scrolled and saw it would be redundant.
The leather looks great. The pin on the bow is interesting. It might help you narrow the age down.

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Thanks, that hat pin does look very familiar to me, but I just can't place it. Any ideas ?

 

[Hagwood]

So I did a really good cleaning on it last night and misted it with distilled water and steam to take it back to an open crown, and straightened out the brim. Thanks to some great advice on the forum. It had some funky creases in it that wouldn't come out, and it seems to have done the trick after seeing it this morning after drying. it definitely stiffened it up. Tonight I will try a bash in it and see what I can come up with, and hope the brim still snaps down in front.

I can see this is going to be very addicting. It's similar to my other hobbies of finding and restoring vintage Music Boxes, Coleman Lanterns, and Fountain Pens. I like finding ones that need a little TLC. There is something very special about taking something from 70 - 80 years ago that has been well used, and maybe even a little abused, and bringing it back to it's former grandeur of a bygone era.

Here's a few pics after my cleaning and re-shaping last night. It was still wet in the photos, but looked great this morning:

 

[Hat and Rehat]

So I did a really good cleaning on it last night and misted it with distilled water and steam to take it back to an open crown, and straightened out the brim. Thanks to some great advice on the forum. It had some funky creases in it that wouldn't come out, and it seems to have done the trick after seeing it this morning after drying. it definitely stiffened it up. Tonight I will try a bash in it and see what I can come up with, and hope the brim still snaps down in front.

I can see this is going to be very addicting. It's similar to my other hobbies of finding and restoring vintage Music Boxes, Coleman Lanterns, and Fountain Pens. I like finding ones that need a little TLC. There is something very special about taking something from 70 - 80 years ago that has been well used, and maybe even a little abused, and bringing it back to it's former grandeur of a bygone era.

Here's a few pics after my cleaning and re-shaping last night. It was still wet in the photos, but looked great this morning:

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It looks like you got the flange restored nicely. The snap ought not be a problem.

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[Hat and Rehat]

I just won a Resistol XXX 6 1/8 Western. $14.99 and free shipping.
It will be interesting to see what arrives.

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[Just Daniel]

A quick by it now. No liner, but super sweet early Royal Stetson.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

A quick by it now. No liner, but super sweet early Royal Stetson.

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Fantastic. Early leather, and if my eyes dont deceive me, no reed.
Congrats!

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Thanks, that hat pin does look very familiar to me, but I just can't place it. Any ideas ?

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I believe it dates that hat post Christopher Columbus.

 

[Bill Hughes]

Nice job! It didn't take long at all to get the technique down, did it?

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It took about 10 minutes to get the technique down. Then I wet the brim and went around it twice to get the what I show in the picture. Of course I did it on straw so, felt could be a bit different.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

It took about 10 minutes to get the technique down. Then I wet the brim and went around it twice to get the what I show in the picture. Of course I did it on straw so, felt could be a bit different.

I think any of us who actually look at hats closely, rather than look at the hat/wearer combo, could learn it very quickly.
That's nice, because a lot of other things we want to do turn out a lot more difficult than we first expected, and we eat some mistakes.

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[steur]

I just won a Resistol XXX 6 1/8 Western. $14.99 and free shipping.
It will be interesting to see what arrives.

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A very small hat is my guess...

 

[Hagwood]

A very small hat is my guess...

Ha ha, I thought I had a small head at 6-7/8...... 6-1/8...... ? Wow.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

A very small hat is my guess...

I can't believe that number is correct.
I bought a $15 lottery ticket.

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[Hat and Rehat]

I also figure that any fur felt finished hat, much less a Resistol, is worth 15 bones unless it has holes in it.

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[Scooterz]

Thanks, that hat pin does look very familiar to me, but I just can't place it. Any ideas ?

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I thought maybe Pan Am airlines but its not quite the same.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

The seller only provided three pictures, but I scooped it up before someone else did.
MacLachlan.

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[Hagwood]

I thought maybe Pan Am airlines but its not quite the same.

That's exactly what I was thinking, but yep, not the same.

Maybe that's just why it looks familiar to me.

 

[TheOldFashioned]

The seller only provided three pictures, but I scooped it up before someone else did.
MacLachlan.

Beat me again, Doc. I asked the seller last night to provide some better pics and gave him examples. This morning it was gone.