Hello everyone! I'm newer to Club Obi Wan (been reading for a while, never posted before) but had a question that I thought someone here would be able to answer. I'm going to be traveling in Europe this summer, and I want to wear an Indy style Fedora. Since I'll be traversing much of the same area ...

You can always buy a plastic block

http://www.hatshapers.com

Or just wear it as is. Remember these hats are not the greatest quality so if you wear it in the rain/snow you may want to use Scotchguard on it first to help protect it from shrinking.


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Gave a look again. Looks like he is back in full swing.


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Wearing my Adventurebilt hat on Election Day. Paired with my 15 year old raiders Wested with LC snaps added.

Stay safe everyone
Johnny


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Yeah, I was wondering what dimensions you are using for the brim? To my eye the brim doesn't look like a dimensional cut so I made this one 2 3/4" all around to compliment the hat size[emoji1360] Sent from my SM-S102DL using Tapatalk I can imagine some of us old timers will be happy about that...

I found 'em!!!! \:D/ So, this was the my last remaining Fed III, one day out of the box, with a shallow preliminary bash. Sometime in 2007. http://www.23hq.com/23666/88343205_60a9de432fbf317daa0119024a4c474f_standard.jpg After a few days, I settled on this not-quite Indy bash. It thought it was a n...

My go to Indy style hat. Akubra Federation Deluxe III from 2005 ish. Still wear regularly. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210601/049600f2ea829b1470fd3d73a4f271c5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210601/f03e631d660856b8532e8e03741e4f93.jpg Canyon, does yours have the red liner? Johnny Sent ...

Interesting topic. I wonder how the hats have changed over the years. My first Federation from 2001 had distinct green undertones. Then my Federation deluxe from 2005 had distinct red undertones. So your saying the modern Federation hats have grey undertones now? I was thinking of treating myself to...

I second scotchgard. Makes it water resistant. So outside a massive downpour it should be fine.
Wear it in good health and enjoy your trip.
Johnny


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For myself I don’t baby my hats but I don’t thrash them either. But I would say, wear your hat every day rain or shine for two years and it will be nicely broken in. Soft, flexible and fitted perfectly to your head.
Johnny
Follow up question. Does anyone pounce their hats?

Then there are people like me with an off center LO head shape. That means I always get a great looking “swoop” to the brims of all my hats. Whether I like it or not. Enjoy and embrace the option if you have it.
Johnny

I have several rabbit and beaver hats. If it was me looking for a hat to last a lifetime, I would go for beaver. I have an Adventurebilt and several Art Fawcett creations and none of them have shrunk. Not the hat, the sweatband though is another story. Invest in a hat stretcher/forum to keep the hat...

My Akubra's usually take about two years of daily wear to shrink enough to stay on my head in a stiff wind. If you get your hat custom fitted it shouldn't be an issue as well. Fortunately for myself Steve at Adventurebilt had 7 3/8 LO blocks. Back in the day Hatsdirect gave out free chin straps with...

The things I do for you guys. I tell ya. :CR: Now you can at least click and be taken to the link. The thing is you have to use the URL to wrap link between. Obviously something is afoul with tapatalk’s direct image upload link. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180126/1408349fc6ae3f6588352c446dc6...

This year is my year of custom hats. So it’s time to leave my Akubra Federation Deluxe III in the closet and get some good use out of my adventurebilt. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180303/b848bd95a8ae7ae01642121c035f9326.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180303/35c71a5bba231a77b4d27341465...

Thanks to Clipper I am now convinced the ROLA Plane hat has to be Carbon grey. So by default a moonstone grey Federation has to be a KotCS Train hat. Outside of that the Federation is based off of the KotCS hat anyway so it seems only logical. Besides you can evolve your hat just by manhandling it t...

I have no doubt he was asked to make a hat for the movie. But it may have never been used in the movie. example Production companies get multiple vendors to produce products they think they want for their movies/tv shows. The production companies then sort thru what they get and decide what vendor t...

Continuing this discussion as to price point, I was wondering if most of you wear or do not wear your hats based upon the price of the hat? For example, do most of you not wear your very expensive hats? Do you wear the least expensive more because it's cheaper and you would rather ruin that one ins...

I have a Federation and an Adventurebilt. If money is not an issue I would go with the Adventurebilt without thinking twice. Next to that I would personally buy a Penman, or a Herbert Johnson. I don’t own one but if I was ever to get another Indiana Jones hat it would be form one of them. If you are...

Floppiest fedora hat I ever had was a Federation II. Three years of daily wear and serious thrashing. Added stiffener at one point in time and it beaded up on the felt, so I ended up taking my Swiss Army Knife and pounced the entire hat. The brim would either flip up or smack me in the face with a s...

Nice liner. I still miss the old red one Akubra used to use.But the gold adds a nice touch of class.
What the heck is that white tag? What does it say? I have never seen one before.
Johnny

fedoraiders wrote:For me, this hat is perfect

I like to believe that the posts I created have served. In fact, I'm sure!

I take it you really like what Herbert Johnson is offering. cant blame you. They look #### good.
Johnny

Great looking hat Indy30 and well done on the bash. You sir, make it look natural and organic straight out the box. It’s well suited for your face. BTW I think you should shoot Hatsdirect a message and let them know how the hat arrived. Just so they know. In case they can do something to improve the...

I have a cow hide Last Crusade jacket from Wested I use in colder weather. I wear a fleece vest under it but when it gets to below -20 degrees Celcius I put a down vest over it. Think Marty McFly in back to the future. But thats just me up here in Alberta. I have a goat Raiders jacket from Wested bu...

Thought I would break this out of the closet. Gets little to no use but love it to pieces.

Johnny

Interesting question. The reality of the situation is I am not Harrison Ford. I have a similar height but, not only do I have a larger chest but stomach as well. So the exact same jacket style will not fit, or hang, on me the same. So if I buy the same style of jacket what can I achieve? What makes ...

On another forum someone sent an 15 year old pair of Florsheim shoes to http://www.nushoe.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and had some great results. Looks like they do Alden shoes as well. Maybe give them a try? Or try Shoemart and see how much a pair of seconds cost. ...

99% of comments are made in good fun. So I treat it that way. Someone calls me a cowboy, I say "giddy up". Last time I argued with someone about that it was with a ten year old IN Scotland. I was wearing my Federation deluxe, Wested goat and Alden 403's. Your a cowboy! - No I'm not! Where ...

Top three. 1. Raiders Idol grab 2. Raiders Seaplane 3.CS I think my Adventurebilt came as a CS. My Federation III deluxe has been mangled to a Idol grab as best as I can. Just to be different my grey fedora is a Joe Friday (Jack Webb) repro from Art Fawcett :anxious: . Maybe one day I will get the S...

Why do we have sweatbands? To stop/slow sweat from soaking threw the felt of your hat and discolouring it. Possibly shrinking your hat as well. Also to add comfort to your head, Rougher felts may be uncomfortable. With that said I have seen some vintage hats that people have taken the sweat band out...

Play with it. Roll the brim like you would roll a piece of paper. If you watch old westerns you see the cowboys twisting and pinching the hats. I fact if you watch the Indiana Jones extra features on DVD you will see Ford doing the same thing between takes.

Great looking hat.