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Gotta admit, I think Duck's is a good rendition. Nicely done, Duck.
I think it's great looking. Go for it!Daoud said:Thanks again. I'm just an old improviser from 'way back.
As far as wearing it, I dunno....it's pretty dramatic-looking; not your all-occasion hat. It needs to be worn, though, to loosen it up a little. It's awfully rigid.
Belegnole said:Found a couple of things that may help in the quest....
Of course the series took a number of forms from radio to pulp to tv to the movies. The most idealized hats were the comic or pulp covers where the crown of the hat is deformed. It almost apears as if the hat has had a wee bit if shrinkage. In the serials and earlier movies it was a more normal fedora.
1940's series:
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Movie crown a tad higher and straighter from the front, perhaps, and ribbon wider (but was stingy in the pulps!) An Akubra "Rodeo" with 3.5" brim cut down to 2.75", crown reshaped, and new ribbon made - yes, it's navy blue on a black hat.
- Bill
tonyb said:That's nice, Bill. Who did the modifications?
:eusa_clapit's navy blue on a black hat
Woodfluter said:Umm, that would be moi. I've gotten good enough at trimming brims by hand that I can't see that it's been altered at all (scissors, then tiny plane, then files, then flame to burn off stray bits of felt). Crown mods as per innumerable steamy threads on this fine forum. Ribbon...I really need to get something decent, but used rayon here, having figured out a way to differentially stretch it and make it curve to match taper. But rayon/cotton would be better, youbetcha.
I got this hat for rather little on eBay, being attracted by the high and fairly straight crown, and it turned out to have a surprisingly soft high crown, which was nice.
- Bill
tonyb said:As I suspected. The ribbon work looks to be more carefully executed than what you'll see on the large majority of factory-made hats these days.
The bow style has a simple elegance, Bill, and the dimensions balance nicely.