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Photos of hatters tools

TheDane

Call Me a Cab
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At first I thought the user could put the conformer on a maker-supplied, grid lined sheet of paper and having the user photograph the conformer on top of and aligned with the grid.
That would rarely give a proper result. The (extremely) short focal lengths in phone- and compact-cameras result in massive distortion of perspective.
 

Tonio

A-List Customer
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445
This little guy arrived at my door today. Anyone ever use one?

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humanshoes

One Too Many
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1,446
Location
Tennessee
I have the larger version. It's nice to be able to offer old school perforated monograms, but it seems most people prefer the gold or silver hot stamp monograms. Still, they're beautiful little machines and look great in the hat shop.
 

Brad Bowers

I'll Lock Up
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4,187
They look nice, but I've never understood the need for them. I'm not a fan of the perforated sweatbands. I sweat so much that I don't want to give sweat any more avenues to soak through to my felt.

Brad
~The Hatted Professor
 

HerrSamstag

New in Town
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9
Location
Germany
Hey guys,

I just bought a machine on an antique market and have to figure out how to use it now.
Has anybody seen a machine like this before? At this point I'm pretty sure it's a machine for sewing hat linings.

Has anybody used one like these before? I'm not 100% sure what's the right way.
If one of you has any more pictures or ads of a machine like this one, that would be awesome.
The machine itself is a Singer 24-52 chainstitch machine.

(Sorry for posting this again, I opened a thread but now I think it's better to ask here)

Thanks a lot

Dirk
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ChicagoWayVito

Practically Family
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699
Hey guys,

I just bought a machine on an antique market and have to figure out how to use it now.
Has anybody seen a machine like this before? At this point I'm pretty sure it's a machine for sewing hat linings.

Has anybody used one like these before? I'm not 100% sure what's the right way.
If one of you has any more pictures or ads of a machine like this one, that would be awesome.
The machine itself is a Singer 24-52 chainstitch machine.

(Sorry for posting this again, I opened a thread but now I think it's better to ask here)

Thanks a lot

Dirk


The Singer 24-52 was used for the following types of sewing:
- Mitts (Silk) Stitching
- Neck Ties Stitching
- Umbrellas Seaming

You can look up Singer Machines here: http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mac...wing-machines-for-manufacturing-purposes.html
Nice looking machine.
 

Brad Bowers

I'll Lock Up
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4,187
Could you have misread or mistyped 24-52 instead of 24-57? The 24-57 does hat linings, and those numbers do correspond to metric hat sizes.
 
Messages
17,467
Location
Maryland
I would be interested in where you found it (location) in Germany.

It's American made with CM sizing. I might be able to find something out about it.

Update: My source couldn't find this machine in their archives. Also no other information.
 
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