DOGMAN
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The block was marked $25,talked them down to $15.The flange was $20,got it for $10.Cool. How much cash changed hands?
The block was marked $25,talked them down to $15.The flange was $20,got it for $10.Cool. How much cash changed hands?
I finally found a Garve hat stretcher.
Speaking of stuff hat retailers ought to have, but often don't ...
"Initialling" devices. I have yet to see a Cummins perforator that didn't look to be at least 70 years old, although I suppose they may well have been making them more recently than that. But surely those gold-leaf embossers are being made these days, right?
My rounding jack prototype. The handle & head of this one are made of hickory. It still needs a little finish sanding, polyurethane, drilling, gluing & screwing, but the structure is all there. It will accept just about any "exacto" type cutting implement, and has a brass scale that goes to about 9 inches. It does not yet have the brass adjusters for cutting dimensional brims, but that may be an option at some point in the future if I develop the methodology or find a machinist who could make them for me at a reasonable price.
I believe that I can make & sell these for $175.00 (which is $100 less than the going rate for the lowest end rounding jacks available elsewhere) without losing money. Your thoughts?
"Faint hat never won fair lady."
All three of the hatters here in Lancaster county pa still use the Cummings inital machines. 1] Irishtown hatters (amish) 2) Flying cloud hats (amish) and myself 3) Ogden hatters.They have the regular Cummings, and I use the Cummings jr. All are over 100 years old and still working fine.