Club Obi Wan

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darthjones2 wrote:What happened to this product? Did they only make like 10 of them?!

We made a few thousand, most sold overseas. It can still be ordered through a retailer.

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The beaver version or the Royal Deluxe version?

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It was mentioned that the pics in this thread were missing, so here is one. This is the Indy hat I designed for Stetson's 150th anniversary. Specs are above. The gray version has a slightly wider ribbon, per the one seen in the Clipper scene in Raiders. Stetson Fortune and Glory in Tobacco beaver fu...

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Dalexs dropped me a line on my facebook page, so I thought I'd drop by to leave a bit more information on this one of our new open crown offerings for fall 2016. Sorry I haven't been posting much anywhere lately, just been quite busy. Fortune and glory kid… fortune and glory. https://scontent-iad3-1...

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Nice to see this thread still has legs.

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I remember meeting Joe over a decade ago when I went to the shop on a trip out to Bowie Texas. He was an exemplary example of those in the trade and carried the torch well for his family business. He will be missed.

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Okay, we need more wet hats!

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From the files of the Fedora Lounge...
A tuxedo hat.

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I'd say take the sticker out and stick it in a higher end hat.

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How'd this turn into a hats to wear with a tuxedo thread?

The proper answer should be brown fedora.

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Many different nationalities tend to have their own head shapes. Asians often have round oval heads and very squared off feet. I had a long conversation with a cobbler about the feet once when I was in London. Germans tend to have squared off foreheads (Frankenstein monster like) which in turn broug...

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He's the son of James Bond. It has to be a four-in-hand.

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Fedora wrote:All hatters who sell stiff hats really need one of these, IMO.

I agree.

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I'd have to vote four-in-hand. That knot is too narrow to look like a windsor. Besides, anything else is too fussy for indy, and we all know James Bond only wears four-in-hands when he wears neckties instead of bowties, and Bond is his father. http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/___...

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I couldn't just let her get wet.

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Am I the only one here that has to decide to unbutton his own button? The only person with a fly that stays closed by itself?

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Excellent jacket! Now I want some shrunken lamb.

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Finally, back to the topic at hand... The question I pose here is: do any of our resident "Indy hat" makers have the equipment/ability to make Indy hats like this? I have my measurements (actually it is a punch card with a lot of little holes outlining my headshape), and I'd love to be abl...

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Jake, it's not used for a specific block, just to help in steaming in the shape then some particulars in sewing in the sweat so it helps hold that shape. I don't know anyone that makes blocks specially for customers nowadays... way too expensive for that to be happening. Some of the studios would ma...

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I really think that bowler is only 76 years old... not 100.

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/\ your head is shaped like a salted peanut. As far as I know O'Farrell sold his company which meant selling his name with it. I think I heard he is making his hats elsewhere now. I do love his old catalog. Comformers are great for the bowler, top hat or western hat which all tend to be stiff by nat...

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Here is one my friend Jake steamed before he decided to sell it to someone that wanted to turn it into a Freddy Kruger hat. Like with most I've seen in person, they taper on one side more than the other... the steaming of this felt brought that issue to light in spades. They seam to stretch one side...

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People's biggest complaint, yet so few pics.

Anywho... GET THOSE HAT'S REBLOCKED!

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http://images17.fotki.com/v530/photos/8/83243/430533/pantsbuttonIndy-vi.jpg Thanks Matt, that picture is somewhat unsettling! At least now we know what color those buttons are. Indiana Jake[/quote] You mean I am the only person that was going to make myself a pair with the correct color melamine bu...

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Hey Matt, it's good to see you pop in from time to time... but this thread might just become a classic. Too funny! If you guys want, we can replicate these pants with the button, but no matching button hole so you can't button that one. :-k Kind regards, Indy I try to keep track of what's going on ...

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Adirondack Jones wrote:I still wanna know how come Indy's pants are so darned GRAY in the whole opening sequence...what's the deal? Brown or Gray???

He has multiple pairs of pants... but if you don't leave one button undone, you're just a poser.

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I took some pretty good frame by frame looks. That's the button sewn to the fabric which is underneath the fly. You can see the two layers above rippling. The button should be in between them... buttoned.

Go through it frame by frame.

Means you have to unbutton one guys.

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Do you leave 1 undone?

Indy does!

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http://www.indygear.com/cow/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23768&hilit=taper&start=200 Steve Delk -- Yeah, I cringed when I saw that. But, THAT was the first hat that got totally saturated and Bernie did not know to pop out the crown to let it dry. On the next hat that got saturated he did pop out ...

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When I was griping about the front to back taper of the Indy4 hat, Steve Delk mentioned that all the hats in Indy 4 were reblocked by Baron hats. All of them but the gray one used in Indy 4 I think is what he wrote, which explains why the gray hat has the tall untapered crown, and all the brown hats...

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Have we run out of wet hats?

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fenris wrote:Rainy season is here already........ Wonder how my hat will hold up.

However it holds up, take some pics!

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Splash!

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Come on... there have to be a few images of wet hats' you guys have taken. hats' that have been in the elements.

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That works as well... also could end up in a better fitting hat.

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I haven't had a vintage hat shrink on me yet... could be "dead felt" but I'd have to go back in the past to see a new hat from back then shrink after a rainfall. When one of my fedoras gets wet I sit it on the brim with the brim turned up all the way around. If you sit it on the crown upsi...

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It's a 1930s Dobbs that was sold local to me back in the day. That's at the end of the soaking. Literally walking around for hours with big drops hitting the hat. I don't think you can tell from the video, yet it's soaked clear through, under the brim and through the crown. I was out there the whole...

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I don't know if anyone has posted a thread of images of wet hats. Anywho, here's a quick vid of the last one that got soaked in action. Pretty much a good 8 hours of rain and walking around with some fools that joined me. If you have images please post them as well. Vintage hat with no discernible d...

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So am I uncontested in the hat being a cut down Akubra theory?

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Perhaps it was another "Australian model" just in black without a dimensional cut yet still cut down and a bound edge added. To me it always looked like a cut down brim. Cut down from a wider more curved brim... in turn making it look a little flatter than what you'd find on a vintage hat....

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Just can't beat that gray hat from Raiders Wider ribbon than the brown hats, and I think the band is a charcoal gray rather than a black. Black ribbon would just be too stark. http://images19.fotki.com/v32/photos/8/83243/329397/gray41vi-vi.jpg http://images19.fotki.com/v33/photos/8/83243/329397/gray...

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Wow. I just saw him at the QM and ... wow. He gave me my first whip lesson back in 2005. He was a charter member of the Fedora Lounge and always held court at the Observation bar of the QM with a cigar and a drink and a tale of the flying Indys whenever a passerby asked who we were and why we were d...

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i saw the jackets Nowak has in person and looking at those and the one pics from the movie... well I think it's the same Jerky leather.

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Is there one more accurate?.... it looks perfect!

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Oh... the distressed hat look is half the fun.

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So why wasn't Noodelman chosen for this film? I think a worn in hat would have looked better than a hat out of the box and frosted with fullers, and i think she could have pulled it off. And what's other people's take on the hats? Did they look too unused to you or am I the only one that thinks Indy...

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I noticed the rocket sled hat liner too. You know if it were a jacket they would have caught it easily, I don't think they were keeping good track of some things.

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Too off. looked more like gear from a ride at Disneyland than what indy wears which is clothes that have been lived in. The distressing they did made it look too done in a lab. They could have studied Raiders a bit... In Raiders they did... well it was just a magnificent job at making it all look na...

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If you look (and not even closely) you can see how the brown hat has a heavy taper front to back in the interrogation scene, you can see it in other scenes like the car chase as well but the interrogation scene gives you a good direct side view. Yeah, I cringed when I saw that. But, THAT was the fi...

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