King’s Umbrella Hat Company

[deadlyhandsome]

They now have their own website:

https://www.kingsumbrellahatco.com/

 

[CRH]

They now have their own website:

https://www.kingsumbrellahatco.com/

Love to see the fir felt shenanigans keeping on! I also think we need to take a longer look at beavers and other aquatic fir bearing mammals and how they fit in with current and future water resource management.

 

[Jaxjax]

It is possible it just depends on how much the hatter sands down the brim edge. A brim plater helps as well as the hydraulic pressure does compress the felt. I think a brim plater is on most hatters wish list but at $12-15 grand out of most or our capabilities. I think at the very least hatters sand down the hard right angle that the rounding jack produces on the cut.

I am going to market with a brim plater this week. Pricing it at $7500 USD. Hopefully this will be more attainable for our fellow hat makers out there

 

[belfastboy]

I am going to market with a brim plater this week. Pricing it at $7500 USD. Hopefully this will be more attainable for our fellow hat makers out there

Are the aluminum plates included? ....Or how much per set?

 

[Jaxjax]

Are the aluminum plates included? ....Or how much per set?

It will definitely come with one set. We will decide on pricing for the other set this week

 

[Jaxjax]

Price is $650 for the additional set of plates

 

[RickP]

This Etsy hat maker is offering some good hats


https://www.etsy.com/shop/KingsUmbrellaHatCo

Here’s hat number 1:

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I found a ne hatter on Etsy and took a chance based a just a couple photos (and the cheap price). I’m completely shocked at how much I like the hat. I want expecting much, but I’d be impressed at twice the price. They go by both Hares Haberdashery and King’s Umbrella Hat Co.
The first thing I noticed was how nice the felt was for being rabbit. It was expertly finished with a wonderful hand, but more than that it’s thin and easily molded. Really was not expecting this hundred percent rabbit for felt to be this nice. The felt does have a lot of spring back, and is not going to hold a shape without steam.

The sweatband is very supple, and somehow just a little nicer than most of what I’ve seen recently. It also has a decorative line of stitching like what Randall @Randall Renshaw does with his sweatbands. In addition, there is a sweat guard, or something similar sewn between the sweatband, and the felt. The liner is sewn in and well-fitted. Ribbon and binding are the exact same color and are well done. Were the binding end but together there is a small bulge in the ribbon, but there is no overlapping and you have to be pretty picky to care about it. The brim brake is decent, but could be just a little sharper. It doesn’t distract from the hat, but as so much of the rest of it is nearly flawless, It was one area where there might be room for slight improvement. I was so impressed that I’ve already contacted the Hatter to place an order for a beaver blend hat.

I need to mention the Hat box. It came in a heavy hat box weighing over three pounds. It is a wooden box covered in fabric. Additionally, it has metal camming closures at three locations around the perimeter to hold the lid in place. The hat box is quite spectacular. The inside lid of the hat box had a sleeve along with a paper certificate of authenticity. Check out the serial number!

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Just looking at the hat, the box and the labels... someone is really proud of their work! (and rightly so)