What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Wyldkarma]

Beautiful one Ken with that contrasting ribbon and edge binding. You really wear the big brims well.

Thank you my friend.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

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Very nice indeed, Steve. We don't see enough of Lee under their own label.
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Thanks Stefan. It is a nicely built hat. The model is called Trnity.Very malleable felt I'd say is a little heavier than my Stratoliner . Very nice, suple leather anda thin, early tip protector. For being in a phemonal state of preservation, it's surprising how stained up it was, with different stains of different substances . The sweatband had white pasty lotion or something on it. It was like someone took perfect care of hat after purchase, then properly stored it for years. Eventually he died, then his grandson grabbed the hat and wore it to work in a kitchen on the beach durring spring break.
However, I did some cleaning, hand blocking and steaming today. It is also the second hat, chronologically, of my three hat's for the day today.
The second and last pictures are post cleaning, the ones ones show some of the stains. They are almost all gone now.

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[Randall Renshaw]

Another beautiful day here, so I was sitting on the patio listening to music and finishing up my ribbon replacement on the Vintage Whippet. Another one with stains that I had to cover up with a 2” ribbon. Had to use Petersham, as that’s all I could find in that width with the color I wanted. Think it turned out pretty good though. I tried to copy a bow

Wow, Tim! Great job on that bow!
I Like the swooping plunge!
You and I might make hatters of ourselves one day and it become possible for us to take a bow with our bows!
Looks like you whipped it good!
Dah, dah, dah... oh, never mind.
Lol!

 

[Hat and Rehat]

My first hat for today was my combed Borsalino Tufo Arpasti. The oatmeal color goes well with most colors, and it has become my go to when I'm wearing a jacket and tie.

 

[quikrick]

Excellent Greg. Go Chiefs !!
(Only cause I hate SF.....)

Yikes!
GO NINERS!

 

[Hat and Rehat]

My third hat today has been in hiding lately. I've sniffled before about the fact my Strats have come to me sans pins, while I see everyone else sporting their little airplanes.
Last time I was sniveling like a baby about it, our resident Saint, true saint that he is, PM'd me asking for my address. Tom had an extra Stratoliner pin and wanted to send it to me.
Thank you, Tom.
I've had it for a couple of weeks now, but the Strat was looking a little forlorn. It was getting soft and shapeless, and I

didn't want to put lipstick on a pig. It needed cleaning, shaping and enough steam to set the barbs in the felt. Today I got around to it, so here she is with her new bling.

 

[Blare]

[QUOTE="steur, post: 2640959, member: 36136"





Very nice indeed, Steve. We don't see enough of Lee under their own label.
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Thanks Stefan. It is a nicely built hat. The model is called Trnity.Very malleable felt I'd say is a little heavier than my Stratoliner . Very nice, suple leather anda thin, early tip protector. For being in a phemonal state of preservation, it's surprising how stained up it was, with different stains of different substances . The sweatband had white pasty lotion or something on it. It was like someone took perfect care of hat after purchase, then properly stored it for years. Eventually he died, then his grandson grabbed the hat and wore it to work in a kitchen on the beach durring spring break.
However, I did some cleaning, hand blocking and steaming today. It is also the second hat, chronologically, of my three hat's for the day today.
The second and last pictures are post cleaning, the ones ones show some of the stains. They are almost all gone now.
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Beautiful... nice job resurrecting it

 

[Blare]

Didn’t want to get grease on the Whipple, so Cooking out for the big game wearing a nice beater Windsor that Stefan @steur so kindly threw in with my recent Borsalino. Perfect for yard work, unlined and very comfortable, and cool ribbon. Just a few moth bites here and there.

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That’s quite a nice “beater” Tim

 

[Blare]

Another beautiful day here, so I was sitting on the patio listening to music and finishing up my ribbon replacement on the Vintage Whippet. Another one with stains that I had to cover up with a 2” ribbon. Had to use Petersham, as that’s all I could find in that width with the color I wanted. Think it turned out pretty good though. I tried to copy a bow I liked that @alanfgag posted on the bows take a bow thread:

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Not too bad I think. I tried to hide the threads on the back side:

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BEFORE:
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Just fantastic work Tim. Very impressive!

 

[Randall Renshaw]

You look sharp in your Sunday go meetins’, @Hat and Rehat
And the oatmeal Hat is a fine compliment to the swell duds.
You did a good clean up job on that Water Bloc, btw.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Thanks Stefan. It is a nicely built hat. The model is called Trnity.Very malleable felt I'd say is a little heavier than my Stratoliner . Very nice, suple leather anda thin, early tip protector. For being in a phemonal state of preservation, it's surprising how stained up it was, with different stains of different substances . The sweatband had white pasty lotion or something on it. It was like someone took perfect care of hat after purchase, then properly stored it for years. Eventually he died, then his grandson grabbed the hat and wore it to work in a kitchen on the beach durring spring break.
However, I did some cleaning, hand blocking and steaming today. It is also the second hat, chronologically, of my three hat's for the day today.
The second and last pictures are post cleaning, the ones ones show some of the stains. They are almost all gone now.
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Thank you.
I will probably still give it a gas bath sometime soon, but it is at least presentable instead of covered with moth bait.

 

[Hagwood]

Yikes!
GO NINERS!

LOL, you know nobody from Dallas can like The Niners......

 

[Hagwood]

My first hat for today was my combed Borsalino Tufo Arpasti. The oatmeal color goes well with most colors, and it has become my go to when I'm wearing a jacket and tie. View attachment 210556 View attachment 210556 View attachment 210557 View attachment 210556 View attachment 210557 View attachment 210558

Nice one. I like the thin ribbon.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Looks good Steve. Deserves to be on a hat and not in a drawer.

Tom D.

 

[Hagwood]

My third hat today has been in hiding lately. I've sniffled before about the fact my Strats have come to me sans pins, while I see everyone else sporting their little airplains.
Last time I was sniveling like a baby about it, our resident Saint, true saint that he is, PM'd me asking for my address. Tom had an extra Stratoliner pin and wanted to send it to me.
Thank you, Tom.
I've had it for a couple of weeks now, but the Strat was looking a little forlorn. It was getting soft and shapeless, and I View attachment 210559 View attachment 210560 View attachment 210561 didn't want to put lipstick on a pig. It needed cleaning, shaping and enough steam to set the barbs in the felt. Today I got around to it, so here she is with her new bling.

Wow, very nice of Tom ! Welcome to the Strat hat pin club ! Now, do you have a box......?

 

[Hagwood]

then his grandson grabbed the hat and wore it to work in a kitchen on the beach durring spring break.

LOL, that’s a good one. Nice job on it.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

You look sharp in your Sunday go meetins’, @Hat and Rehat
And the oatmeal Hat is a fine compliment to the swell duds.
You did a good clean up job on that Water Bloc, btw.

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 hatter'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.

 

[Héctor Fernández]

Thanks Michael.

Very nice looking hat, Hector.

Beautiful hat, Panos. Great outfits and photos, too. And that is some tasty looking Tikka. I need to make some of that again one of these days.

Thanks Panos. Today's jacket is a little more upmarket than my usual finds. Luciano Barbera from about 10 years back.

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Hat and Rehat]

Wow, very nice of Tom ! Welcome to the Strat hat pin club ! Now, do you have a box......?

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Maybe in Glory.

 

[Hagwood]

Maybe in Glory.

Portishead ....?