This is an essential tool for reshaping a hat brim

[Hat and Rehat]

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I was able to see it.
I think you can do that one with a steam iron and a towel, ironing the top. It's pretty flat to begin with.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

will help to press it down?

To make it flat?
Just use a steam iron.
To create a curl follow jlee's advice.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Why are you taking the curl out of the brim? The edge is supposed to be like that. It's not supposed to fold over onto itself or be un-curled.

It can be uncurled though, if he really wants to. Top iron it first to reduce the curl, then flat flange it. The hat I mentioned above had an overwelt that I removed to get more brim. The makeshift sandbagging completely flattened it.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Those are very fancy machines, but hatters did all of that earlier, before those machines were invented for mass production.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Pardon me for violating the Ebay active listing etiquette. I could be wrong, but I believe this is the hat in question. Of recent manufacture in a wool blend, the Sevilla hat by Fernandez and Roche. It appears that it is neither a curled brim nor a conventional bound brim, but rather a sort of homburg style binding that's folded over and pressed flat, but not stitched down as an overwelted brim would be. If the brim fold is tacked down, it's almost certainly done with a blind stitch that is not visible on the finished product. A steam iron, a damp pressing cloth, and a clean hard surface should do the trick nicely. Unless, of course, one is planning to do hundreds, then bring on the machinery.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fernandez-y-Roche-Sevilla-Wide-Brim-Hat-BLACK-ON-BLACK-TRIM-Sz-56-US-7-UK-6-7-8/254478394343?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160323102634%26meid%3D4843a1f8e08e4dc280f1ebee7545bc09%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D113921150438%26itm%3D254478394343%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

Have you handled one of those, Rick?
I've removed welts from two hats. One was a velour, the other a finally pounced suede finish. The suede had two v shaped relief cuts. I can't see any way to fold as much felt back into a smaller circumference as those have without some sort of relief cut. The binding probably hides it.

 

[humanshoes]

Thanks for straightening all of us out!

No worries Jared. I certainly don't presume to know more than you folks who collect vintage hats in earnest, however, this brim edge treatment did tweak my curiosity. Plus, I ran out of popcorn.

 

[humanshoes]

Have you handled one of those, Rick?
I've removed welts from two hats. One was a velour, the other a finally pounced suede finish. The suede had two v shaped relief cuts. I can't see any way to fold as much felt back into a smaller circumference as those have without some sort of relief cut. The binding probably hides it.

I haven't HR. I do love a challenge, but I likely wouldn't even attempt that edge treatment on a wool blend hat.

 

[Perry Underwood]

I found these photos online of the same hat. Is this a pencil curl?

 

[belfastboy]

I found these photos online of the same hat. Is this a pencil curl?

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I think that pencil curl and kettle curl are interchangeable terms. Their usage pertained to the tools used to make them....a pencil as a mould and a kettle as a steam source. Both are curls, the important element is specifying the size and depth of curl you want. Your pic is of one of the deeper curls available.

 

[abe ny]

how can you press this brim felt

 

[Perry Underwood]

Thank you Belfastboy, I hadn't heard of a kettle curl. Found this thread on the different curls.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/brim-curls-kettles-pencill-etc.52149/

Also found this video on YouTube.