Cornshucker77
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Thank you Rick, I appreciate that very much.Absolute beauty Scott. Great save there my friend.
Thank you Rick, I appreciate that very much.Absolute beauty Scott. Great save there my friend.
Truly wunnerful!!One of my favorite lounge customers (Doc) sent me this Vintage Homburg for a conversion to make into a fedora style hat. The Custom brand felt is different than most felts Of standard brands but it turned out to be suitable for the task.
Navy hats can be difficult to match the correct navy ribbon with as this was case with this hat so I let it sit for a while and came back to it several times to find some vintage ribbon that would potentially work with this color navy felt.
I’d call this color ribbon more of a Bronze.
The liner and sweat are original and fortunately I was able to rework the felt without much of a problem there.
Here are before and after pics View attachment 163001
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Wow! I'm in awe, man. Really nice job.Just finished up this Granite Gray Resistol Stagecoach conversion. The hat was gifted to me by a fellow Lounger. It started out as a size 6 7/8 and I blocked it up three sizes to fit me. I wanted to do something of a late '40s - early '50s era mid ribbon'ish' fedora so I got with alan who was helpful in giving me some ideas and showed me pictures of the nice collection of mid ribbons that he has. I also parked myself in front of a few film noir movies, as I usually do when I'm getting ready to do a conversion, to get a few more ideas of what I wanted to do with this hat....My thanks to the fellow Lounger who gifted this hat to me.
1. 6 inches tall straight sided open crown.
2. Creased to my preferred Teardrop. 4 3/4 at the pinch with a rake sloping to 4 1/4 to the back. Overall crown height, as creased, is 5 inches.
3. 2 3/4 wide snap brim.
4. 1 1/4 black ribbon and bow that I scavenged from a Borsalino. I gave the bow a little bit of an upswoop.
5. I reworked the finish into a Brushed Longhair.
Before:
On the block:
Making good use of a Band Block that was made by fellow Lounger, 'Rockwater', and I trimmed the brim down using a Rounding Jack that was made by Rick of the Phoenix Hat Company, another Lounger...
Deciding on a ribbon choice. I finally chose this 1 1/4 black ribbon with a double bow that I scavenged from a more recent vintage Borsalino:
Finished: I also gave the bow work a little 'upswoop'.
The crown is tall and straight:
From the back:
Thank you, Steve!Wow! I'm in awe, man. Really nice job.
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Just finished up this Granite Gray Resistol Stagecoach conversion. The hat was gifted to me by a fellow Lounger. It started out as a size 6 7/8 and I blocked it up three sizes to fit me. I wanted to do something of a late '40s - early '50s era mid ribbon'ish' fedora so I got with alan who was helpful in giving me some ideas and showed me pictures of the nice collection of mid ribbons that he has. I also parked myself in front of a few film noir movies, as I usually do when I'm getting ready to do a conversion, to get a few more ideas of what I wanted to do with this hat....My thanks to the fellow Lounger who gifted this hat to me.
1. 6 inches tall straight sided open crown.
2. Creased to my preferred Teardrop. 4 3/4 at the pinch with a rake sloping to 4 1/4 to the back. Overall crown height, as creased, is 5 inches.
3. 2 3/4 wide snap brim.
4. 1 1/4 black ribbon and bow that I scavenged from a Borsalino. I gave the bow a little bit of an upswoop.
5. I reworked the finish into a Brushed Longhair.
Before:
On the block:
Making good use of a Band Block that was made by fellow Lounger, 'Rockwater', and I trimmed the brim down using a Rounding Jack that was made by Rick of the Phoenix Hat Company, another Lounger...
Deciding on a ribbon choice. I finally chose this 1 1/4 black ribbon with a double bow that I scavenged from a more recent vintage Borsalino:
Finished: I also gave the bow work a little 'upswoop'.
The crown is tall and straight:
From the back:
That is another great conversion, Terry. Excellent in every way. Do you re-use the liners of the converted hats?Just finished up this Granite Gray Resistol Stagecoach conversion. The hat was gifted to me by a fellow Lounger. It started out as a size 6 7/8 and I blocked it up three sizes to fit me. I wanted to do something of a late '40s - early '50s era mid ribbon'ish' fedora so I got with alan who was helpful in giving me some ideas and showed me pictures of the nice collection of mid ribbons that he has. I also parked myself in front of a few film noir movies, as I usually do when I'm getting ready to do a conversion, to get a few more ideas of what I wanted to do with this hat....My thanks to the fellow Lounger who gifted this hat to me.
1. 6 inches tall straight sided open crown.
2. Creased to my preferred Teardrop. 4 3/4 at the pinch with a rake sloping to 4 1/4 to the back. Overall crown height, as creased, is 5 inches.
3. 2 3/4 wide snap brim.
4. 1 1/4 black ribbon and bow that I scavenged from a Borsalino. I gave the bow a little bit of an upswoop.
5. I reworked the finish into a Brushed Longhair.
Before:
On the block:
Making good use of a Band Block that was made by fellow Lounger, 'Rockwater', and I trimmed the brim down using a Rounding Jack that was made by Rick of the Phoenix Hat Company, another Lounger...
Deciding on a ribbon choice. I finally chose this 1 1/4 black ribbon with a double bow that I scavenged from a more recent vintage Borsalino:
Finished: I also gave the bow work a little 'upswoop'.
The crown is tall and straight:
From the back:
That is another great conversion, Terry. Excellent in every way. Do you re-use the liners of the converted hats?
Thank you, steur. I reuse anything that can go back into the hat. I was able to reuse the sweat bow and the LO tag, which I sewed onto the new sweat. The original liner was too small to reuse after the size up. But I did have another Resistol liner that was like new that I put in the hat.That is another great conversion, Terry. Excellent in every way. Do you re-use the liners of the converted hats?
Ha! His liners are for starin', not for wearin'! Id spend too much time just looking at them all day long! Those are some niiiice looking liners!
One of my favorite lounge customers (Doc) sent me this Vintage Homburg for a conversion to make into a fedora style hat. The Custom brand felt is different than most felts Of standard brands but it turned out to be suitable for the task.
Navy hats can be difficult to match the correct navy ribbon with as this was case with this hat so I let it sit for a while and came back to it several times to find some vintage ribbon that would potentially work with this color navy felt.
I’d call this color ribbon more of a Bronze.
The liner and sweat are original and fortunately I was able to rework the felt without much of a problem there.
Here are before and after pics View attachment 163001
View attachment 163002
View attachment 163004
View attachment 163005
Congrats Terry, you've done it again, great job. From one working hat to another. Sure looks cool as a Fedora.Finally getting around to posting my most recent conversion. This was a fun little conversion project and is going to be my outside activities hat. It started out as a hat that was made by Stratton for the New York State Highway Patrol, purple ribbon and all. It was too small for me so I blocked it up to a 7 1/4 to fit me and I made a thin ribbon fedora out of it. It has two vent holes on each side of the crown and slots on both sides of the brim for a head strap. I replaced the purple ribbon and sewed on a two ply thin ribbon with a very simple bow. It has a tall straight crown that's creased to my preferred Teardrop. As creased, the crown is 4 3/4 at the pinch with a rake sloping to 4 inches in the back and has a 2 3/4 snap brim.
Before:
On the block:
Open Crown and flanged 2 3/4 snap brim:
Completed and creased:
Two ply thin ribbon with a simple bow and keeper:
On the head from a few different angles:
http://www.nysth.com/uniforms.html?...I2eEvobJtS1nu-FOA2xPbgjT3mBjmWYFUSRQ0NIP7p-mw
Finally getting around to posting my most recent conversion. This was a fun little conversion project and is going to be my outside activities hat. It started out as a hat that was made by Stratton for the New York State Highway Patrol, purple ribbon and all. It was too small for me so I blocked it up to a 7 1/4 to fit me and I made a thin ribbon fedora out of it. It has two vent holes on each side of the crown and slots on both sides of the brim for a head strap. I replaced the purple ribbon and sewed on a two ply thin ribbon with a very simple bow. It has a tall straight crown that's creased to my preferred Teardrop. As creased, the crown is 4 3/4 at the pinch with a rake sloping to 4 inches in the back and has a 2 3/4 snap brim.
Before:
On the block:
Open Crown and flanged 2 3/4 snap brim:
Completed and creased:
Two ply thin ribbon with a simple bow and keeper:
On the head from a few different angles:
http://www.nysth.com/uniforms.html?...I2eEvobJtS1nu-FOA2xPbgjT3mBjmWYFUSRQ0NIP7p-mw
Thank you buddy! Can't really say yet about the vent holes as to how effective they may be. Although I did notice they did pretty fair in a breeze when I wore it today.Looks great, Terry. I’m curious if you think the vent holes help any? Your conversions are great...any plans for the purple ribbon and campaign bow it came with?
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Thank you buddy!Congrats Terry, you've done it again, great job. From one working hat to another. Sure looks cool as a Fedora.
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