I will be very appreciative for any information you could give me. I am just trying to do a little repair work on a hat I made myself. I do have an Adventurebuilt hat, my wife bought it for me and I try not to wear it to much, I want to keep it in the same shape that I received it in. I have had to ...

I don't understand why people want to keep their source of good quality sweatbands a big secret? I know that there has to be a few people here that have a favorite source for their sweatbands and they refuse to share the info with others in the group. If they were to tell others where they get their...

WalkingEye wrote:I've had good luck finding vintage hat quality grosgrain on etsy.

Hello,
Where did you find hat quality grosgrain???? etsy???
Do you mean Ebay???

Darrell

(Petersham, isn't hat band quality at all and should not be used on hats. They have no edge to them. Grosgrain, has and edge but there are hatband quality grosgrain and not hat band quality grosgrain. There are some hats here that have hatband quality grosgrain on them and there are hats that have g...

Hi Raidersbash, Well I ordered my sweats from someone I found on the net, I am not to sure about posting their name in a forum, I will say that the person requires a $28.00 min. order before shipping and handling charges, the sweats cost $6.50 each, I also ordered some grosgrain ribbon and when I re...

Hello All, I have been searching the web for a new leather sweatband and some Petersham ribbon, does anyone know where I can find what I am looking for? I recently purchased a couple of new sweatbands and some ribbon, which I thought was some good stuff, all I can say is boy am I dissapointed. :( I ...

Hi Steve,

I sent you a PM 3 days ago, it seems that you have not read it??
What is happening these days???

Darrell : : :

Mac, Instead of using plaster I would suggest that you use pink house insulation foam. You can use the same method as in my tutorial, just replace the wood with the pink foam. Then to give the pink foam a longer life, apply polyuethane and thin cloth, silk or cotton. The polyurethain and cloth will ...

That drill press has come in handy that is for sure, I use it a lot for the work that I need to do on my rc submarine that I built from scratch. As you can see I also use the drill press as a vise. I have used that drill press to work on house hold repairs also, and to make things around the house s...

To make a good hat block out of wood the first thing you need to do is get a good piece of wood. I had a 2" x 8" laying around which actually is 1.5" x 7.5" and to get a hat block that will be tall enough you will need 5 layers glued together in a stack. http://home.insightbb.com...

Hello Everyone,

How many people here make hats?
How many people buy beaver fur felts?

: :
Thank you for your time and help,
Darrell

You might ask your teacher about the word, it maybe used to describe something. As it turns out loden can be purchased in a brown color, the Federation Delux is a dark brown color and changes with the amount of light the material is exposed to.

Thank you posting the photos of your hat GCR, that is a nice looking hat, the photos of your hat make the color even more interesting. :) I ran a search on google for Loden dark olive green images and from what I have seen there seems to be many variations of Loden and some of the images that I look...

Rather confusing isn't it, since loden is listed as a dark olive?? :

Hi Shane,

The hat on that page looks to be brown, but the color loden is listed as a dark olive color. Does the Loden color change with lighting?

Darrell

Hello Everyone, Has anyone ever seen any hats made of the loden color? I am not sure but I think this color changes color under different lightening and if it does, what color ribbon would you put on a hat like this? I have been searching the web for fur felt hat blanks/bodies and so far I have loca...

Well I have hopes of making more hats, I recently purchased 5 wooden brim blocks, 7 1/2, 7 3/8, 7 1/8, 6 7/8 and 6 3/4 and I have decided that I will be making the crown blocks, I have figured out a easier way to do the work. I have another hobby, making rc submarines from scratch and I have a bit o...

I think that I have around $95.00 in materials. I could have kept cost down if I could have found the right Grosgrain ribbon close by, the only Grosgrain that I could find close by was made of 100% Polyester and it was a Lt.Brown color and I had to buy some dye to change the color and then to get th...

Steve and Marc are both very helpful. They have helped me with a lot of questions, I still have a lot of questions, but I do not think I will get an answer on some of my questions from Steve or Marc. When I started looking at Fedoras to make a purchase, I had looked at Fedoras all over the web, in f...

Well I ordered a hat from Steve just before Christmas, I had been looking at Fedoras all over the web and my wife had been watching what I was doing, and she ask me to order a Fedora for myself as a Christmas gift from her. My grandfather always work a Fedora hat and I have always wanted one for mys...

Hello Group, I reshaped my hat block yesterday and then I reshaped/bash my hat in an attempt to get the stovepipe look with the Indy pinch and a few other features of Indy's hat. http://home.insightbb.com/~darle.bennett/photos/index.htm I uploaded new photos of the rework of my hat block and rebash ...

Hello to Everyone, Thanks to Everyone for the better than expected feed back. I am rather picky about everything that I do and I have to say that I must have changed the apperiance of the hat band, bow and knot four times, before I settled on my last change. I ask for and received some much needed i...

Hi All, Thank you for the feed back. :shock: I made this hat myself, I ordered all the items that I would need to make one hat, I wanted to see if I could make my own hat. After receiveing everything that I ordered I discovered that I would need a hat block and after checking prices I made the hat b...

Hello All, This is my first post, but visited a number of times and I have been doing a lot of reading here at the forum and I have picked up a lot of information and seen a number of hats. So I thought that I would post a link and a few photos to get some feed back on my hat. :?: So without turning...