Club Obi Wan

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Seven years ago, today, I ordered my first Adventurebilt...had no idea of the adventure that lay ahead at the time...

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Halloween...heck! You're ready for a nice night of dinner and the theater! Put it on your calendar!

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Just celebrated the sixth anniversary of my order this past month...

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Fitch wrote:Just wanted to share what Santa left under the tree this year!

Adventurebilt Rabbit Raiders

Gorgeous hat!

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Hey Fellas, I don't know what all the fuss is about? I just e-mailed Steve Delk and ordered a new Raiders AB. I had included my phone number when I ordered and one hour later I get a call from Steve. Turns out he has a brand new Raiders in my size and offered it to me straight away for half price!!...

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5 years. Mine got lost in the shuffle when the flood gates opened with CS. Regards! Michaelson Because there is virtually no communication with his customers regarding order status, many people fear this is what has happened to theirs. If it wasn't for all the positive reviews from people that wait...

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Dang...thought we had a new, recent arrival on this one... Look what arrived at my doorstep today!!!!!!! THANK YOU STEVE!!! http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd296/nicktheguyphotos/?action=view&current=CIMG2681-1.jpg Inside the AB http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/dd296/nicktheguyphotos/?actio...

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Hollowpond wrote:So does ANYONE have ANY IDEA where Steve is in the que?

Travis

Well...I'm awaiting my 7 3/8 LO November 2007 order, if that helps. Latter part of the month. Don't really have any idea with regard to the massive order amount of that month, though...

Bernie

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I ordered back in November 2007. As I recall from that time period, people were hoping to get their hats by the time Indy 4 came out. I never would have thought that the wait time would have been 3+ years on the day I placed my order. From the talk about getting hats by the release date of Indy 4, I...

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lantzn wrote:Has ANYONE from 2008 received a hat yet?

Waiting on my Nov 2007 order.

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I ordered the Model #25 Trapper, with the 6" blade option, stainless steel, the @25 handle, Nickel Silver Hilt with Aluminum Butt and a Nickel Silver Butt cap. Looking at my delayed shipment notice I received at the beginning of October, I guess I didn't order it until March of 2006...a couple ...

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Randall Made Knives. I ordered two (Airman's & Survival) about twenty-five years ago. At that time ordering was approximately two years. Almost as long as some hats. Excellent knives. They're still good. When I ordered my knife back in Dec 2005, the wait was forecast at five years and customers...

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Nov 2007 (second half) here...still waiting. Interestingly, I had mail from Randall Made Knives just last week, informing me my order due Dec of this year would be an additional two months. I placed that order about 5 years ago...they had forecast a five year wait and look to be coming in pretty clo...

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Art does have a knack for color combos. I fell in love with one of the hats on his site, but then found out he was out of the vintage rayon shade for that one. He said he could find me something similar...and, frankly, I don't know that I would have been able to tell the difference! :D Lost my job a...

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I'm with the rest of you guys and am waiting for two hats. What two hats? CS brown hero and CS grey travel hat. Good choices... the order I have placed with Steve back in July 2009 was for a CS grey travel hat. It's one of my most favourite hats of the series! I placed my order for a Brown CS in Ju...

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S William[/quote]
I guess Nov. will be the month that never completely dies...[/quote]

Had to chuckle at those words

Thanks!

Bernie

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Anybody have any idea where we are at now? I've been trying to email Steve about a sizing discrepancy with my order but haven't been able to catch him... As far as where we are, only Steve knows sometime in Dec 2007 and Jan 2008 orders last time he chimed in. If your trying to get a hold of Steve B...

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I dreamt about ABs last night...I was trying to get to the store that Steve had apparentlyl set up in the basement of a small shopping complex. Lots of IndyGear members in full regalia where in the complex. Maybe this means delivery time is at hand???

Bernie

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I've got a vintage leather top hat case and a modern hardsided plastic case...but I have yet to travel with either of them. I used to just travel with a crushable wool fedora...but then I got a bit more finicky with my hats. Sometimes I might place it in the overhead bin while on the planes...but th...

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I would never have looked at that hat and figured it to have been a homburg in its former life. Looks great! I'm not much of a homburg person, per say...but I've managed to acquire a couple that have managed to grab a permanent spot in the collection...and none of them are brown. If I saw the right ...

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Mitch LaRue wrote:
...Please check them out and let me know what you think.
All the Best,
Mitch

P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N-!

Bernie

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Way off topic to ABs being made in China, but since things have gone in this direction...as a clarification, Anheuser-Busch was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, USA by the Busch family. Upon creating their American beer recipe they wanted a name that would bring to mind the German beer making tradit...

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Just came across this post so might not be all that current anymore. But this doesn't sound right. I would imagine a Chinese company could probably register the AB name in China and make hats there under that label, but I can't imagine they could ever legally sell them in the U.S. in view of your U...

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Hello Everybody! I am usually on the forum just reading your great opinions, getting a lot of tips to upgrade my own indy gear an such. Now I once again seek your council! I have asked before all of your opinions, but I am in some of a situation. I have ordered a hat from mr. Delk, I think it was i...

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Oh, I just wanted to add, that I have never had any of my vintage hats to taper. But, my vintage hats were made mostly in the 40's, a few in the 50's and a couple prior to 1940. Many of these were probably mercury carroted hats, as I think they outlawed the use of mercury in the US in 1947 or 48. D...

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I arrived in Kabul earlier this week. My impressions after one day that I shared with my wife: this is like a movie setting for modern day war zone Indiana Jones movie. Got the war zone thing going on, the third world country, all the characters one could ever want for extras...just need to add in a...

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I get quite a few compliments when out and about, but I think it is sometimes the entire outfit that often brings about a hat compliment. Case in point: I've got a charcoal doublebreasted pinstripe suit and I most often wear a modern black Knox hat with it: one or two errands on the way home and it ...

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After losing my job due to cuts recently, I've accepted a position in Afghanistan for a year...I leave at the beginning of next month. If my AB shows up before I leave, it will leave with me. If not, my wife will forward it to me when it arrives. I'll have to post some pictures from Kabul in the fu...

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If you have a large calipers, you can measure the front to back measurement of your head (the length) and the side to side measurement (the width). Measure where you would wear your hat. Then subtract the width from the length. Various folks have figured some creative ways to get the measurements. T...

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After losing my job due to cuts recently, I've accepted a position in Afghanistan for a year...I leave at the beginning of next month. If my AB shows up before I leave, it will leave with me. If not, my wife will forward it to me when it arrives. I'll have to post some pictures from Kabul in the fut...

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that_dog wrote:
XPLSV wrote:So...the $650 hats get bumped ahead of the two year queue???
In a word, yes.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43127&p=618666#p618666

Good link...I've got no problem with that logic.

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Caber wrote:WOW Marks was 500 just about 7 months ago . What happen?

So...the $650 hats get bumped ahead of the two year queue???

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I pulled out my old Lite Felt hat that I bought several years back after retiring from the military to keep my head a bit warmer in the cooling fall months. Although it is brown, it looks to be pretty much the same as what Shia is wearing in the pic. Per the comment about the Golden Age hat styles m...

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That cheap price in 07 is the culprit. I should have went up to cut down demand, but was trying to give everyone a real deal film hat at a cheap price. And it ended up biting me in the...the nether region. My fault. Fedora I took advantage of that cheap deal in Nov 07 and I thank you kindly :TOH: K...

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Baseball caps!! Eeks, I sure do hate them. But, not to insult your dad. I would never insult a guy from the Greatest Generation. But baseball caps, to me, are the curse of the 20th century, and are still prolithic around here. Plus, to add insult to injury, these youngsters call these caps....hats!...

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Fedora wrote:
I had to make a double long oval block just for you, but going by your first pics, of the first hat, you certainly needed it! Fedora

Steve,

You have Long Oval blocks???

Bernie

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I had originally peeked at this post from work and the images were blocked...getting back to the thread from homeand viewing the pics (finally), it reminds me I'm likely in need to order a gray Adventurebilt to go along with the brown one that has yet to arrive... Suppose I should do that sooner rat...

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Being in the middle of Colorado, it's kind of hard to come across vintage dress hat :-({|= Hence, I've taken my chances with ebay, craigslist, etc. I've ready about too many disappointments, seen too many 1960's/1970's hats advertised as 30's/40's, to bid on much unless I feel at least half-way conf...

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What's the saying....a watched pot never boils? :lol: When I placed my order back in November 2007, I knew there would be a wait. Turns out it has been longer than what was forecast at the time...but I think I would still have ordered had I know the length that it has turned out to be! On a somewhat...

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The heavier weight dress hats could be had for a price in the vintage era, but with hats being so relatively expensive, most folks bought the really lightweight versions, and many folks today confuse the heavier weight dress hats with western hats!! Just don't forget that hat factories starting ski...

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I have had similar experience with most modern hats--they just don't have enough crown material rising high above my noggin to maintain the pinch. I have one vintage borsalino, circa 1950s, that has a very high crown that would be capable of the Raiders tight pinch, but I've left it similar to how I...

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I've got a long oval head, but the line of symmetry on my head is not on a straight line from front to back--it is slightly askew, sort of going from 1:00 to 7:00 (although that may be a slight exaggeration). If I put on a long oval hat with a symmetrical bash that aligns from front to rear, it will...

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I hit a year this week...had been hoping it wasn't going to stretch out this long...but reckon the wait is worth it

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Another consideration with the hat can is that a second piece of checked luggage is pretty much a $25 add-on each way. I've tended to not bring my most favorite or least crushable hats when traveling...depends upon the destination.

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By my observations, and ebay selling prices, wide brimmed fedoras are in much more demand...at least people are willing to pay quite a bit more than for the stingy brimmed ones. Could also be a factor of supply and demand...perhaps the supply of wide brimmed fedoras is just that much less...

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Marc,

You nailed it!

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I just got word (well, at 1:30 a.m.) from Jenny that my Moonstone Gray has arrived at the shop and will ship out with the next post, so it's likely on its way. I can't wait; the color looks to be outstanding! Iowa...I'll be watching for a pic! I'm on the verge of getting one with the tax rebate and...

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