Club Obi Wan

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Just ordered one of Penamn's nice boxes for it. The old Fed 14 is on a peg n a wall... just waiting for an adventure.

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Hey guys. Been a long long time since I was on here. Wife bought me a new Fed IV Deluxe for Christmas. Took two months to ship and then spent two weeks in customs but it finally came. My old Fed IV got a little hole in the pinch and it's fallen down mountains, into puddles,on gravel etc over years o...

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Hey, I saw you guys! (Big bearded guy with an Akubra). You guys looked swell! The pics don't do you justice. Especially fitting in an art deco place like the Bowl. Should have gotten a pic in front of the muse statue out front. A related note or two. Bummer they didn't do any Raiders cues. My 4 year...

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Alas, I don't think David's notes on the phone conversation have survived, but they are there related there in the crown and brim of the Adventurer. So you're making a rather extraordinary claim to market your product and won't take a moment to back up this claim to arguably the largest number of s...

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Yeah, that's true....but a size 61? :shock: Hope it turns up, or you'll be able to replace it in short order! Regards! Michaelson Hey, the highly intelligent folk have to have a large head for our large brains (as another size 61)!! :D Glad you found your old friend! Reminds me of a funny story, wh...

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Always good news to hear the hat found its master! If you hadn't worn it all the time that person might not have ever known whom it belong to. This is a lesson to us all :D :D Wear the hats! Yeah, it's pretty funny. When my little boy Jack was in his (age 3-4 pre-Transformers) Indy period and wore ...

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Michaelson wrote:Yeah, that's true....but a size 61?

Also it must be said -- it is a bummer wearing a huge lid. Makes the odds of finding a vintage hat that would fit, extremely slim. I never, ever, ever see anything over a 7 1/2.

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Yeah, that's true....but a size 61? :shock: Hope it turns up, or you'll be able to replace it in short order! Regards! Michaelson HA! That's what I was thinking! It would be a strange thing indeed to find someone who a) favors a fedora who b) would pick one up off the street and take it for themsel...

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Man, what a bad day. It was already bad -- then somewhere between leaving the house, dropping my son off at daycare and going to work -- well I reached over to grab my hat and get out of the car -- and no hat! Nothing! I have NO IDEA where my much loved size 61 Akubra has gone. And I can't afford an...

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Ok guys....sorry for the delay. I just got back from a camping trip, which I wore my Fed on most of the time. But now I have a problem :shock: When I took off my hat I noticed a metal rod protruding from the back of my sweatband, which promptly broke off after VERY SLIGHT handling. I wasn't too wor...

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My Akubra liner is so disgustingly sweat-stained I want to replace it. Should be easy enough, right? But where do I find myself some hat liners?

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I wear my hat everywhere, all the time. If anyone doesn't like it they haven't had the guts to tell me. Nothing but compliments. I do feel weird about the fact that nobody can edit this dang thread to read "wearing the hat in public" because the error in grammar has been driving me nuts fo...

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Dutch_jones wrote:No offense but whoa!!! . . . this is just greedy starting out at 250.

So wait. "No offense, but you're greedy."

How is this not the same as "If it's not a personal question, are you a virgin?"

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Tremolo wrote:Wonderful hat Steve! Somehow it looks like a piece of candy ;-)
Thank you so much for posting it!

Totall! Butterscotchy goodness is what sprang immediately to mind. Kudos Steve!!

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I deleted all my Baron Hats questions and comments as I see that the subject has been well covered elsewhere and I am sure Steve has better things to do than to revisit a tired and ultimately not important subject. Suffice it to say Baron's attempt at an AB is a joke and anyone who believes they had...

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blueoakleyz wrote:Ok so I'm just getting impatient but

ordered
early early morning Friday 10-10-2008
they emailed me that day and said it'd go out the next post (so on monday 10-13?) and I'm 104% sure Australians don't celebrate columbus day...

Oh I live in central cali

mine took 8 days to LA exactly.

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I hang my hat on the top corner of my cubicle at work, and use my Squier Strat in its stand at home as a hatstand -- if I'm gonna play guitar I just put the hat on, it helps me play the blues better. ;-)

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Hello all,
A quick question: I love my Fed IV but it is a teeny bit. . . fuzzier than I might like. So I am debating pouncing it down a little with some superfine sandpaper. Any advice/warnings/experience in doing this? (Including "don't do it, are you nuts?!?")

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Holy !@#$ that is one heckuva job! How much did the materials cost you? And how long, all told, did it take you to make this baby?

Extremely well done!!

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You cannot keep things perfect for very long. My brand new Jeep Cherokee already has some marks on it, my Brigg I read a great interview with a guitarist -- can't remember who -- and he was always so relieved when he got his first scratch on a new guitar. "Now I don't have to worry about getti...

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TheMechanic wrote:I'm everybody from The German Mechanic

Ha ha! My three year old calls the German Mechanic "The Naked Bad Guy" which I always feel has kind of a film noir ring to it

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On the wall behind you in the pictures you posted (lower right corner, specifically in the third shot - the profile) is a piece of Indy Artwork I've never seen before... maybe an original piece? Any chance you could take a snapshot of it and post it here? Hey Mitch, thanks for the props, man! As fo...

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After an exruciating week of waiting . . . it finally arrived! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2848414987_d50e4305bc.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2849266584_35c9f9f5d2.jpg I ended up ordering a 61. I had originally ordered a 62 which was out of stock. But I re-measured my head after p...

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TheMechanic wrote:I still haven't gotten used to that CS hat. I know it's a AB and it's the best and all that but I don't like it at all.
It's just my opinion, please don't stone me to death!

Wow, it's my favorite!

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Michaelson wrote:Hide food. That's a term used for leather dressing.

Regards! Michaelson

Ah, trust the knower of things to come through.

Opinions on this practice, ladies and gents?

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OK, so there is this video regarding the care and feeding of your Akubra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ZWy3HfT7w and at roughly 1:45 the fellow says that shrinkage of a sweatband on a hat that's a perfect fit can be prevented by the: "simple application of a HIDEFUDD to the untanned side of...

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Congrats on your new lid. Post some pics when you get it. The wait for the AB will be long but well worth the wait. Steve is a master at what he does. He hats are just fantastic and I love the ones I have. Ha, it's not the wait for Steve to work his voodoo but the wait to fill up my now-legendary M...

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You know how Anakin Skywalker got his helmet on in "Revenge Of The Sith" and "The Empire Strikes Back" - I also have a mecanical device that does the same thing with my fedora. I also have the menacing music. http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8894/kaneklapqo6.gif Ha ha ha! Incr...

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Hey everyone! Very very pleased to announce to the only group of people on the Internet who could possibly give a flaming rat's behind, that I ordered my Fed IV today. I had measured my head a while ago and it seemed like a 63 was the thing to do, but I have since taken to wearing my hair much short...

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I'm not really in the market for another Indy hat right now, but am interested in what comes of this. What type of felt will you use? How much will you charge? What sort of ribbon and sweats will you be using? I'm just curios. And congrats on the new business 3thoubucks. Dave Um, he's not talking a...

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Mama Mia, Jersey, that's a fine hat. I may yet be able to afford one -- may the savings jar at home fill to overflowing just by the power of my will alone!

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scot2525 wrote: My son loves this hat.

Ha! That's an awesome photo. How old is your boy? My son -- he's in another thread somewhere -- is 3 and is well convinced he IS Indiana Jones.

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OK, the moment you've all bee waiting for. I finally finished reworking my 100% wool Dorfman. Good job! I did something pretty similar with mine, with very similar results (I did not want to spend the time and money on a new band, though, as I will soon be ordering up a Fed IV anyway). The first th...

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eazybox wrote: That is a Dorfman made by Milano, which is owned by DP. There is a thread discussing it over at The Fedora Chronicles titled "Worst Hat Vendors."

That's a pretty great thread title. How cheesy Dorfman is.

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kind've related to this topic... and sorry if it's been answered before, but not knowing alot about beaver fur I did a search and came across "this".. http://www.delmonicohatter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=IT201&Category_Code=IJ I too am curious about this ...

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In all fairness I must say that I'm not exactly blown away by how the hat looks, but at the same time I'm amazed at the improvement your re-bash is. Ha! That's kind of what I figured, it is nothing to write home about! While I'm not amazed (I really appreciate the compliment). I also am not blown a...

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wow you did quite a good job :tup: , i destroyed my DP trying to get it to no longer have that tear dent. needless to say it ended up in the trash bin. Thanks man -- it is definitely in the category of "lipstick on a pig" but I do think it is much improved. As a bonus all the massaging of...

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Just for a before-and-after comparison -- here's a shot from my hike last weekend to the Mt. Vetter fire lookout. I'd say this still-quite-imperfect hat is much improved.

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Well, I have been saving up for my Fed IV but I just couldn't handle the crummy low-slung profile of my wool DP anymore. Even though I knew the risks, I decided to more or less follow the legendary Indy Falco DP Fur Felt rebash plan and here are the results. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/27386...

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I just got my quarterly statment for my "Hat Account" at my Credit Union. Every pay period I have a set amount go to that account. I "felt" that was a prudent move. What a splendid pun. I like that idea! Wouldn't get past the Mrs. though and rightly so - we have many many issues...

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"Buy the best, used". Though in your case, the size needed will be considerably harder to find. Even with current exchange and shipping charges, the Fed IV is hard to beat for quality/price. If you bought one, you'd have the hat right away, and it would likely retain much value should you...

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OK, so first let me get my badge of shame out, shine it up some and pin it to my lapel: contrary to some people's advice regarding DPs, I actually bought and wear daily, a Disneyland wool felt DP --- not the crushable variety. It is a little tight as it is an XL and I should be sporting a XXL, but i...

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As far as chicks digging the hat. . . well I wore mine to a party at the Playboy mansion a couple of weeks ago (yes, I AM bragging) 8) and a number of extremely nice looking women in various states of scantilicious clothing/bunny outfits complimented me . . and this is just a crummy DP. Wait till I...

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As far as chicks digging the hat. . . well I wore mine to a party at the Playboy mansion a couple of weeks ago (yes, I AM bragging) 8) and a number of extremely nice looking women in various states of scantilicious clothing/bunny outfits complimented me . . and this is just a crummy DP. Wait till I ...

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Whereever & whenever. This last weekend was at Disneyland. Made others self concious wearing their DP Disneyland fedoras. :wink: Cheers! Dan I wear my wool (non-crushable) DP all the time, unless I am in a t-shirt and shorts -- it just does not seem to go. When I finally get my first "real...

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