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What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

Randall Renshaw

Randall Renshaw

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Hat and Rehat said:
Thanks Randall. I've had a lot less Lounge time lately, and time working on my hats. Changing my overcluttered wood shop in the basement into predominantly a batter's workshop has been a more daunting task than I expected. It didn't help that I'd been accumulating stuff for a long time. All of my storage areas, when you looked inside of a cabinet or shed, made me picture 10 gallons of s**t in a 5 gallon bucket. I'm not willing to just get rid of all my carpentry tools because I'm also making my own hatter tools, but I do need to downsize and streamline things. Actually working on hatter tools has helped me figure out what my new, compacted, more specialized woodshop needs to include, and I now am about to fill half of the space with strictly hat tools . I even painted the empty cabinets because if I didn't do it now, when would I?
But working on hats has been calling me, so for the last few days I've been carving out some time for that as well.
It should get easier when I get the workshop operational.
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Sure wish you lived just down the road, Rehat. I’d help you shovel about five pounds of that “carpentry s**t” into the bed of my truck!
Good luck with the winter clean out!
I probably need to ask you a few questions on how to make a #52 long oval hat block, as I’m about to construct one, myself.
 
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Randall Renshaw said:
Sure wish you lived just down the road, Rehat. I’d help you shovel about five pounds of that “carpentry s**t” into the bed of my truck!
Good luck with the winter clean out!
I probably need to ask you a few questions on how to make a #52 long oval hat block, as I’m about to construct one, myself.
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I am dialing it in, a little bit at a time. I'm happy to share what I've learned, Randall. We need to keep this art form alive.
As far as hauling off what I have, be careful what you wish for.
Over my life I accrued things, a lot of things, of practical value. But they only have practical value in the context of their time. Do you really want the ultimate application of Windows 7 today?
Eventually it's just a bunch of old stuff.
Why do I have 6 portable air compressors? Good one's too; Emglo, Sanborne, Rollaide, a compact Senco, among other things. They have little market value today. The cheap knockoffs have closed the gap enough that they almost make more sense.
Who would have known?
Maybe what I grabbed thinking I was hoarding jewells with sparkle again, but John Maynard Keynes (not my favorite economist, but a savvy investor) aptly said that markets can remain irrational much longer than one can remain solvent.
 
Randall Renshaw

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Hat and Rehat said:
I am dialing it in, a little bit at a time. I'm happy to share what I've learned, Randall. We need to keep this art form alive.
As far as hauling off what I have, be careful what you wish for.
Over my life I accrued things, a lot of things, of practical value. But they only have practical value in the context of their time. Do you really want the ultimate application of Windows 7 today?
Eventually it's just a bunch of old stuff.
Why do I have 6 portable air compressors? Good one's too; Emglo, Sanborne, Rollaide, a compact Senco, among other things. They have little market value today. The cheap knockoffs have closed the gap enough that they almost make more sense.
Who would have known?
Maybe what I grabbed thinking I was hoarding jewells with sparkle again, but John Maynard Keynes (not my favorite economist, but a savvy investor) aptly said that markets can remain irrational much longer than one can remain solvent.
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I know what you mean. I have a duel tank Emglo, too, but when it comes to grabbing a compressor for the next job I always load up the cheap, light weight, compact, easily replaceable, made in Japan, annoyingly loud Porter Cable pancake tank unit!
As solvent as the Emglo may be, I’d rather save my back from being blown out hoisting a 150# Emglo into the pickup bed so I can continue marketing my irrational, aging body.
So... can you send me that compact Senco air compactor?! LOL!
 
Short Balding Guy

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Yesterday afternoons chores of chopping the ice formed at the foot of our driveway and the ice build up by the boathouse found me wearing a Filson Mackinaw cap. I wore a Cordova Cap early morning when out admiring my efforts. Cheers!

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Morning dog soiree wearing a Gannon Wanderer (inspired by the venerable Stetson hat of said name). The charcoal beaver and frayed ribbon trimmings work coordinate with this darker winter morning.

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Best, Eric -
 

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