films of felt hat manufacture and hat care

[silvershadow]

These two films were one longer film originally which I've split in the middle and made into two separate parts.

The first film shows hats being manufactured at the Akubra factory and also gives a little of the company history:

http://www.glennamer.com/Akubra.wmv [5mg]

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The second film is about hat care:

http://www.glennamer.com/Akubra Care.wmv [4mg]

I hope you enjoy watching the films of felt being made, and how the hats are formed. I'm not affiliated with Akubra in any way, except I do buy lots of their hats!

 

[fletch31]

Sweet, I grabbed them. Thanks for sharing brother. Hope your bandwidth can handle the onslaught

 

[surely]

very nice contribution

 

[fletch31]

I uploaded your videos to rapidshare in the event that your links go down and to save your allotted website bandwidth.
Thanks again for sharing!

http://rapidshare.com/files/104216840/Akubra.wmv.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/104217094/Akubra_Care.wmv.html
Fletch31

 

[indycop]

Great stuff!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap Awesomely informative.

 

[Razzman]

Great Thread Silvershadow!:eusa_clap :eusa_clap Very informative. Thanks

 

[Mark G]

Great videos, thank you very much for posting.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Thanks for these, Silvershadow! Very interesting.

Looks like the company doesn't share other's opinion of using steam on their hats.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Spellflower]

:eusa_clap
Great stuff, Silver Shadow!

Yes, Tango Yankee, Akubra and hatsdirect do recommend steam, but notice how the man says, "a shot of steam." This probably won't cause any problems, but if you hold the hat over steam for several minutes, that's when you'll start to get taper.

BTW, anyone know what hat the gent in the hat care video is wearing?

 

[jake_fink]

That was great. Thanks.

 

[silvershadow]

I'm glad you like the films.

I think he's holding either a "Stylemaster" or a "Swing". I'm not sure because Akubra has a million different styles and I'm a Homburg and Bowler man, but these are my guesses:

"Stylemaster" - http://www.strandhatters.com.au/cache/item-137public.html?cache=no

"Swing" - http://www.strandhatters.com.au/cache/item-34public.html?cache=no

 

[Spellflower]

I dunno, it looks like to high a brim and too wide a crown for a Stylemaster, and the Swing only comes in blue and gray from what I've seen. I'm guessing it's a Squatter. Whatever it is, it looks good on him. I often feel that I don't pull off the wide brim on my Fed as well as I'd like, but it looks just right on that guy. I guess if it didn't, he wouldn't have the job.