Club Obi Wan

Dakota Ellison

Got mine today as well. #30/50. A perfect fit in my Webley holster. This is a fine replica and it really reflects all the work you put into it. A tip of my fedora to ya and thanks very much.

Dakota Ellison

It was Vic Armstrong, not Randall.

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Wow! Those buckles just reach out and slap you.

Dakota Ellison

Hi , Im not sure what you mean by a 'telescope' crown ? The earlier Poets as i remembered were taller for sure . I joined in the last year that HJ was at Old Burlington St , we had more & more trouble getting the right shape in what was becoming a less & less popular hat . I never heard of ...

Dakota Ellison

Oscar Wilde could be the "Poet" the hat was named after. If you google images of him, there are several shots of him wearing and holding a tall crowned, wide brim hat.

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Try an ebay search for a leather valise or gladstone. My dad had one years ago just like the one Indy uses. He called it a "grip".

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I know. It looks like my computer's wearing trousers.

Dakota Ellison

I tried washing my Todd's brown web with clorox and it hardly faded at all. Then I looked in a drawer I haven't looked in lately and lo and behold I already had a web belt in a kind of orange/tan color. It had a black buckle and tab. Bought it at an Army/Navy store years ago. I swapped buckles and t...

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I found a couple of old straw hats in the attic a few days ago. One was an old Indy straw in a loose natural color weave that was beyond saving except the sweat was in good condition and it still had the Indy plane sticker inside. The other hat was a panama from Country Gentleman bought at Macy's fo...

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Can you enlighten the forum on a few things? Like where the felt came from in those days? Did you do the blocking there at the shop? What year did you move from Old Burlington to Bond St.? What was Swales like to work for? What did you think of the fan attention to Herbert Johnson once the fans foun...

Dakota Ellison

We had a lot of these Poets in various felt plush colours in Herbert Johnson ,
one was used in The Batman film for the Joker as well .

Welcome to Club Obi Wan. I take it you worked at Herbert Johnson?

Dakota Ellison

This should link to the before photo:
http://hotimg20.fotki.com/p/a/24_98/76_ ... at1-vi.jpg
And this to the after photo:
http://hotimg19.fotki.com/p/a/24_98/76_ ... der117.jpg

Dakota Ellison

Looks like the shaggy Poet I shaved, pounced and made an Indy hat out of. The bodies came from France and according to Swales they were Poets.
Late 60's early 70's, maybe later.

Dakota Ellison

OK, so the 2 could mean 1972 with older liner and sweat or 1962 or 1952 or......? The color of the sweat with the plastic underneath would suggest and older year, though.

Dakota Ellison

The label is pre-1965, the year HJ moved to Old Burlington Street, though from what Mr swales told me, they used liners and sweats from old addresses after they moved. Was the white paper tag under the sweat? The last number after the slash would be the year. It fits the general discription of an or...

Dakota Ellison

What size is it and how long did you have to wait for it?
Boy, the tacking on the ribbon looks almost white. Otherwise a great looking hat you've got there.

Dakota Ellison

I'm with Fedora on this one. Kinda like Ed Norton on the Honeymooners.
I have installed a hat hook in the bathroom, though.

Dakota Ellison

I have one Optimo Indy and it's pretty floppy. Rundquist is the original expert on this subject. It's a summer weight felt, very thin and I wound up applying a lot of stiffener to the brim to get it the way I wanted it.

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Every day (work days) I carry a thermos of coffee, whatever book I'm reading, 2 breakfast bars, a magnifying glass and a tape measure.

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1. located in the usa

2. light weathering

3. the barrel drilled and the sight brass please

Same as above.

I didn't see a cutoff so count me in please. Wonderful work!!!

Dakota Ellison

I have ordered the Benrus from U.S. Wings. They are on backorder right now. About two or three weeks, they said.

Dakota Ellison

I have the same problem with one of my hats. Here's an idea. Take some light sand paper and sand around the brim a little till you get a small pile of felt. Now you have some felt to make a patch, but I haven't figured out the best way to apply it. Maybe the simplest thing would be to get a piece of...

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I went to Parade.com and straightened them out about that.

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That's the way I've always thought it was made. I think it must have been Vic Armstrong who wore the 7 5/8 as he was in all 3 films.

Dakota Ellison

3 wool Stetson IJs-$105 (about $35 apiece) These were on the racks everywhere after TOD came out. I had two brown and one grey. 1 fur felt Stetson IJ-about $75 Offered through the Lucasfilm fan club 3 fur felt Dorfman Pacific IJs-$270 (about $90 apiece) 1 Resistol cowboy hat-fur felt in mink color-b...

Dakota Ellison

They were at 38 New Bond St the first half of the 20th Century until 1965. 13 Old Burlington from 1965 til late 80s-early 90s? 30 New Bond til mid or late 90s 54 St James currently Swales would do the IJ on the sweat on demand as far back as the Indy hats go. I asked him to do my initials on one sid...

Dakota Ellison

Is there an HJ logo on the liner? Look under the sweatband for a paper sticker that will have the year the hat was put together.

Dakota Ellison

Dakota, check this one out. The blue crest was used at 13 Old Burlington. I have one like that. It's a gray trilby with a sticker date of 1978. I've thought about transfering the liner and sweatband to my Todd's HJ to make it look more authentic. So for a while, HJ used the same small blue shield u...

Dakota Ellison

Thats difficult if your using a flat pannel

Whoops!! Only the warmth of a cathode ray tube.

Dakota Ellison

Yes, yes the lampshade will work. Then, when you come in from outside and the sweatband is a little sweaty, while you're logging in to Club Obi Wan, set the hat on top of the monitor to warm it up.

Dakota Ellison

I believe the grey hat and blazer was part of Lucas original concept of Indy as a "man about town". This is rectified in Last Crusade by implying that he really does wear the brown hat all the time.

Dakota Ellison

Maybe Spielberg can CGI the grey hat to brown to make it like he's wearing the same hat in Raiders.

Dakota Ellison

You bake it at 350 for 24 hours? I sure would like to know how to make my HJ's last longer. This is like "I've Got A Secret". Sorry.

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endeavor to persevere

Unh huh!

Dakota Ellison

My Optimo Indy was discoloring at the intersection of the top and front creases. I tried Marc's trick of putting the hat on my block, moistening the felt, ironing, and going over it again with the washcloth dipped in ice water, and the lightened spot was rejuvenated. You do have to re-bash after thi...

Dakota Ellison

He gets them wholesale from the factory, not the retail store.

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It's not all there at Indyfan Forum archives.

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Oh, by the way, nice drawing.

Dakota Ellison

Lacking a flange you can iron the brim flat on the lowest steam setting and once flat but still pliable, pick it up and hold the brim against you and work a slight curve in the edge with your fingers. Remember the clip of Joe Jr. doing it like that down in Ft Worth at the Peters Bros store?

Dakota Ellison

The clipper and steps were literally the last scenes shot. What if she wasn't there??? Maybe? Nah!!..........

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A few years ago, someone made up a fake receipt from a leather company and sold it on ebay as an insert for the grail diary. It supposed that Henry Sr. bought the leather jacket while in England circa 1920, and sent it to Indy, who was in college at the time in Chicago. Further sentimental attachmen...

Dakota Ellison

It reminds me of one of those ladies hats from the 20s-30s worn with the bow in the front. The box doesn't look that old, though and an HJ certainly didn't cost that much back in those days.

Dakota Ellison

I got that from Swales. That "shaggy Poet" was dated 1972, but still had a 38 New Bond St. liner and sweat, though they had moved to 13 Old Burlington St. 7 years before. Does make dating a tad difficult.

Dakota Ellison

I'm just guessing, but we know that by LC, they had switched to the burgandy hexagon and by the time they were at 30 Old Bond St., they had switched again to the burgandy oval. My belief is the move from 13 Old Burlington was the beginning of sourcing hat shells from Borsalino and the takeover of Sw...

Dakota Ellison

If the paper tag is still under the sweatband it should have the last two numbers of the date the hat was built. If not the older ones are from 38 New Bond Street (pre 1965). Indy era -- 13 Old Burlington St. 1990s can be 30 Old Bond St. or 54 St. James St. where they are still as part of Swaine Aid...

Dakota Ellison

Late 90s til Swales retired, I think.

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That is a re-write of the letter Richard Swales used to include with every Indy hat.

Dakota Ellison

Here's a pic from a few years ago. A standard Federation, a Miller and a Peters Brothers. The Fed had that greenish tint under certain lights till I set it out every day for about three months till it faded. the PB is the only one I still have. This pic is a good example of the color differences. ht...

Dakota Ellison

If I dress up like Indy accurately, I wear my Indiana Dan shirt. 3 or 4 years ago Dan sold the shirt for like six months and then folded, but those of us who got one know that Dan did his homework on these shirts. I also have an Noel Howard and several LL Bean work shirts which I wear all the time.

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