Club Obi Wan

Kim Hoffman

I say email him again. He got back to me the same day when I did... I remember when i ordered my hat from Delk. I had a couple emails back and forth. THEN it stopped. I tried a few times but still no reply..SO being smarter than the average bear I contacted him with a different email and in the hea...

Kim Hoffman

IndianaGear Hunter wrote:
IndyJames wrote:Has anyone received an AB recently?
Nothing yet..... just turned 6 years this past May.
I have wrote to Steve a couple of times but no response.

Me too.

Kim Hoffman

IndyJames wrote:Has anyone received an AB recently?

Still waiting.

Kim Hoffman

I am now a proud owner of a Garrison standard fedora. It's a beautiful hat shaped by a good man. Mr. Garrison is a craftsman and his work will stand with the best. But what I liked best is that the hat was more than just purchased: it was earned. UPS crushed the hat during its initial delivery and t...

Kim Hoffman

I am now a proud owner of a Garrison standard fedora. It's a beautiful hat shaped by a good man. Mr. Garrison is a craftsman and his work will stand with the best. But what I liked best is that the hat was more than just purchased: it was earned. UPS crushed the hat during its initial delivery and t...

Kim Hoffman

moses wrote:I can't believe anyone could wait almost 6 years to get something he bought!!! I salute your patience - 3 weeks is about my limit!!! I can't even remember what I was interested in 6 years ago!!

Well, for most of us it wasn't entirely by choice.

Kim Hoffman

They both look like the real deal. Take care of those hats and they'll take care of you.

Kim Hoffman

Last I heard, Steve was all but caught up with his orders from around that time. I can be mistaken, though. I do know that he has a pretty aggressive spam filter. You may want to send him an email from another web address. Steve is a stand up guy and will fulfill your order and when he does you wil...

Kim Hoffman

Wyatt and Josie are in S.F. County, and, according to the Tefertiller biography, most are buried in Colton, by San Bernardino. Virgil is buried in Portland, beside his first girlfriend, not his wife. Not unusual for pioneers, I guess. San Francisco had in Earp's day two or three race tracks. His occ...

Kim Hoffman

Reversed or not, Earp is interred up here in Colma, at the Jewish cemetary, Hills of Eternity. The Earps lived in San Francisco longer than anywhere else, and it was Wyatt's favorite city.

Kim Hoffman

i suppose you can that they are at least hats. But checked or pin striped? Here's the deal, a hat means something: Men Wear Hats. A hat is functional. In the old west a hat might tell you where a man was from and what he did for a living. A fedora means business. There's a reason why Spielberg and L...

Kim Hoffman

Well, it might depend on how long one is waiting. If I had to do it over again, I'd definitely go with Penman. Good Luck!

Kim Hoffman

According to Mr. Savage Marc Kitter was the shaper. Nice hat.

Kim Hoffman

A stiffening agent causing cracks seems to make more sense. I say seems because my ignorance of hatmaking proceeds me. I know the rudimentaries but not the science. Pouncing, though, would likely solve the creasing issues. Good luck!

Kim Hoffman

What is the nature of the line, a former crease? A hatmaker in Bisbee, Az., told me that when steaming a hat the steam should rise from a boiling "bubbling" water; a lesser steam source might cause "hairline cracks" in the felt. Perhaps an actual hatmaker here might comment or ex...

Kim Hoffman

Don't worry about fools, they're beneath you. Wear your hat. If you wear it consistently they'll will eventually come to admire it. Once they admire it they will want one. Considering that they connected the fedora to Indiana Jones they're almost there. One of the reasons people like Jones is becaus...

Kim Hoffman

Gentlemen, you have convinced me. I placed an order for a Standard Raidedrs fedora. Your pictures and enthusiasm for these works have been highly impressive. And Mr. Garrison has been courteous and quick in communicating. I look forward to showing his hat off here!

Kim Hoffman

Eleven weeks isn't long.

Kim Hoffman

The beaches up here look the same to me. Narrow, overcast, cold. Sort of looks like Baker Beach, going towards the bridge, but I could be wrong. Who's the picture of, I can't tell?

Kim Hoffman

if you ask me there's just too many baseball hats out there and as someone said pants being worn beneath butt line. I have a frock coat and a beautiful black hat shaped by Tom Hirt who makes hats for Westerns. And when I wear them I get compliments. Especially in Santa Fe...

Kim Hoffman

The derby was the most popular hat in the wild west during the latter part of the 19th Century. As for D'Jango's hat, his entire costume, was modeled on Little Joe's from Bonanza. I suspect Golden Gate hats might carry both the derby and D'Jango's.

Kim Hoffman

You're not speaking out of turn. Personally, I might be more than happy to order a second or third hat from Steve. But prudence dictates that I should at least wait for my 2008 order to arrive first.

Kim Hoffman

The last time Steve posted here he wrote that he didn't have that many backorders to fill. So it shouldn't be necessary to pay him more. Steve's a man of his word.

Kim Hoffman

Any new ABs out there?

Kim Hoffman

Well, the problem with hats is wearing them outdoors... They're expensive, especially when you don't get them. But you do get used to wearing them. And they do get worn. And you get used to balancing them on your knee under tables. And after a while you don't mind. By then you're thinking about your...

Kim Hoffman

Likewise. Hats off indoors is thw rule, especially when seated at a dining table. In the past hat racks were available, or check-in rooms. But I also use a chair if one is available or my knee. In the service the lid comes off indoors immediately. But during the past fifty years or so the etiquette ...

Kim Hoffman

It's good to be amazed. Best of all, the long, long, awaited hat looks right on you. Here's to you finding your next adventure!

Kim Hoffman

Nicetrylache, you earned it!

Kim Hoffman

If I recall correctly, Nicetrylaoche was a 2007 order.

Kim Hoffman

Congratulations! It can be said that genius is actually the ability to realize your dreams while you're awake. Looks like talent pays off.

Kim Hoffman

Hi, yes-you sure don't look mad!

Kim Hoffman

Savory Trim, nice picture. Is yours a new hat?

Kim Hoffman

Well, we'll just have to ship some Xtra-Long Pest Strips to Kalamazoo. That is, if your uncle doesn't mind. Beats velcro....

Kim Hoffman

Moths do damage fabrics. Or moth larvae do. Moths don't eat much, but they do mate and the female lays her eggs in dark warm places near to food sources. Any fabric will do away from sunlight. They seem to like moist sweat stains. The larvae will eat as much fabric as they can before spinning their ...

Kim Hoffman

May your dream come true!

Kim Hoffman

The brown lends itself to most colors. I'd skip the pastels, though....

Kim Hoffman

This thread reminds me of something Harrison Ford said in an interview about the time Crystal Skull was coming out. "Indiana Jones is someone who puts on a fedora and a leather jacket and then goes somewhere where it's hot."

Kim Hoffman

There is truth in that; I suspect in smaller towns the noncomformists stick out. But that's a sacrifice the man or woman of adventure must make during their explorations. Helps to have a good looking hat atop your skull. And a .45.

Kim Hoffman

Eccentricity is like a fedora, about the time you get used to wearing one, everyone will be used to seeing you with one. In San Francisco everyone is a rebel, eccentric, or otherwise nonconformist; to really be a nonconformist here you'd have to be a republican and/or obey the traffic rules. You sho...

Kim Hoffman

The quality most appreciated in beaver is in the nature of the hair, the individual hairs being like tiny hooks, so that the hair locks together, similar, perhaps to velcro, enhancing durability and water resistance. I'm not sure who and when this was discovered, but Stetson spoke of it on his first...

Kim Hoffman

I was arounds guns once without ear protection and never again. After the first blast I used cigarette butts and after that I always made sure I had the g.i. issue plugs (they were issued in Basic and AIT) that that were generally available, if you looked for them. In Vietnam I always had some with ...

Kim Hoffman

Sir, you've fooled me! But it's a handsome hat. And I strongly suspect it looks better now that it's passed through your hands. I cannot guess, but I look forward to finding out!

Kim Hoffman

It could be Stetson's Carson, but the crown, at least as perceived through the medium of tv, looks taller. The Knudsen hat might be the Carson, and the crown does look a tad shorter. But the price ain't bad. Knudsen is in the East Bay, Walnut Creek, maybe. I think he gets Pre-shaped Stetsons and the...

Kim Hoffman

Waylon's hat could be a Stetson, modified. On the show the hat's crown looks to be approximately an inch taller than most contemporary Stetson western hats. It's not the "Open Road." It does have the standard "Cattleman's" crease; and quite possibly Stetson rolled a hat out for h...

Kim Hoffman

"Somtimes a hat is just a hat." Sigmund Freud. Barron's is definitely pushing the envelope. They make the "Justified" hat for Timothy Olyphant, and the reproduction which is a little different cost something like $900.00. $650.00 is about "average" I guess for the full ...

Kim Hoffman

Hats were indeed daily, even mandatory, wear probably since someone first thought of using a large leaf for a cover. The sun is a killer. It's only been about fifty or so years since they they were left behind. As an old Penny's catalog can illustrate, the shift from the classic wider brim hat to th...

Kim Hoffman

I was hoping one of you would figure the difference for me. Thank you, sir! And that's about what many Stetsons might go for today, depending where you shop. IMHO a custom made hat is the best way to go. There are a lot of talented and fine hatmakers in business today. From the pictures I've seen, B...

Kim Hoffman

I came a cross a Dover 'Reprint', Cowboy Gear 1942. An old mail order catalog. Towards the back is the Stetson Collection. A fair number of hats, in the western style, ranging from $6.50 to $22.50. The median price is approximately $15.00. They were fairly pricey for the time.

Kim Hoffman

Wise words, Michaelson. Everything gets worn, so there's no reason to rush it. I have a lot of hats, and I take care of them, but a few are showing their age. Time heals all hats.

Kim Hoffman

Well, that's certainly ok with me. My guess is that Shia is unnecessary to the Indy series: Indiana Jones is the star, even an older Jones; and if Jones needs or requires a sidekick then there are plenty of young archelogists waiting to ### ist him in a dig. Harrison Ford comments on Shia are intere...

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