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by swisslet
Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:43 am
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: AB Deluxe at Glastonbury
Replies: 8
Views: 398

Re: AB Deluxe at Glastonbury

Montana - you will likely have seen me at the cider bus as that's something of a haunt of mine during the festival. I usually take my Fed IV (as seen in my avatar picture where I'm sat in front of the Pyramid). No shame in an akubra! I saw the Raiders screening was on, bit missed it sadly. Re. The s...
by swisslet
Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:58 pm
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: AB Deluxe at Glastonbury
Replies: 8
Views: 398

AB Deluxe at Glastonbury

Anyone who has heard of the Glastonbury Festival must have heard of the famous Glastonbury rain and mud.... right? Well, I took my AB Deluxe this year.... it put up with a bit of a battering from the elements, including 6 hours standing in a queue in the driving rain, and as well as keeping my head ...
by swisslet
Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:04 pm
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?
Replies: 544
Views: 47105

Re: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?

Evening all. My ABD ordered on 7th July 2008 arrived today. That's nearly two-and-a-half years, but it is a beautiful hat. Soft as butter. Question: mine has a small wrinkle on the front brim just up by the ribbon. It's something I think I can live with in a handmade hat, but is this likely somethin...
by swisslet
Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:50 am
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?
Replies: 544
Views: 47105

Re: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?

WOW! :o Long wait. Yeah, but patience is a virtue, right? I always knew I'd have to wait (what with the film coming out and so on). I thought 18 months when I placed the order, but by the time that came and went, what were another few months more for a handmade hat from a real craftsman? My Fed IV'...
by swisslet
Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:21 am
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?
Replies: 544
Views: 47105

Re: Adventurebilt Status Update Anyone?

Adventurebilt Deluxe update here. Myself and my brother ordered a couple of hats of Marc in the spring or early summer of 2008. I just had an email off Marc that mine is ready, and my brother's is next in the queue. Another ABD update here. I ordered on 7th July 2008 and have just heard from Stefan...
by swisslet
Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:05 pm
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Date You Ordered Your AB
Replies: 475
Views: 37305

I put the order in for my AB Deluxe with Marc on 7th July 2008, and I'm looking at around 14 months wait. In the meantime, I get to have a long think about whether I go for SOC of KCS. Time is on my side, however. Question: my Fed IV has a tendency to sit on the top of my head when bashed with a cen...
by swisslet
Wed May 28, 2008 4:19 pm
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: What would YOU like to see on The Henry's sweatband?
Replies: 61
Views: 2901

I like Marc's original suggestion. Just my opinion, but I like the fact that the Indy reference is subtle and not too in your face. I think that's really classy. Just like the Henry itself!

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by swisslet
Tue May 27, 2008 6:32 pm
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Sizing advice for Fed IV?
Replies: 10
Views: 547

my advice, for what it's worth, is to say on the order form how you measured your head and any thoughts or worries you have on fitting. That's what I did, and Ron at Hats Direct came straight back to me asking me to use a dress maker's tape measure and to send him a tight measurement and a comfortab...
by swisslet
Tue May 27, 2008 9:51 am
Forum: The Fedora
Topic: Thanks to COW....
Replies: 7
Views: 554

Thanks to COW....

Hello. Just a quick post to proffer up my humble thanks for all the help and guidance that I have found in these forums. I've been a hat wearer for a number of years now, quickly graduating from baseball caps to a floppy leather Barmah hat that I wore around Australia and on to a couple of Panamas -...