Photos of your Pinnacle

[jlee562]

I may be going to hat purgatory for this, but I've been a bad boy. Been thinking about a stingy brim custom for a long time. This Pinnacle cost me about $99, and had the misfortune of arriving the same day as my new brim cutter. I hated to cut into a 100% beaver hat, but with that low crown and the brim arriving all tweaked and floppy, I lost control. I figured I would try the stingy in a beaver model before saving up for a VS and deciding later I looked silly, or waiting for an Akubra Hampton and paying more with shipping than I spent. I'll post photos of my crime later. Still trying to get the brim right. The good news is the brim cutter was a snap to use, and I'm not scared to trim my own hats anymore. Frank.

What did the brim width end up being on this one? I actually very much like the look of this one and am considering asking Art to make me a similar hat....

 

[frussell]

Brim Measurement

The brim ended up at about 1 5/8", and right now, it's bashed as a porkpie. If there's enough to work with, I'm thinking about having Major Moore bind the brim, maybe that will give it some body or snap. Good luck, Frank.

 

[St.Ignatz]

I hope you saved the trimmings to use as band backing for a loose hat. If the binding doesn't work just knock off 1 5/8 and call it a fez. Knock off 2 and call it a yarmulke.

Tom D.

 

[frussell]

Yeah

Thanks for your concern Tom, but at my size, loose hats are not very common. Since the brim cutter I use leaves perfect circles of felt, I looped them together and use them as dog leashes. Frank

 

[HATCO]

I like it

Not quite done with the brim curl yet, and hard to see the semi-teardrop bash, but here's what it looks like now:

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I never remember to post "before" photos, but it was a mess.