I'm a 360 stovepipe man
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I'm a 360 stovepipe man
Yesterday I made a fresh (smaller) 360 stovepipe block and reblocked my PBBM. A total stovepipe makes a better Raiders hat in my opinion, as long as it's a tight fit. Finally, some decent back tilt! The felt is floppy after the reblock. This hat is drying on another 360 stovepipe block now, because i'm experementing. So this hat only existed for an hour and a half. (I made the block out of styrofoam, and dried the hat on the block with a space heater set on low temp.)
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3thoubucks, can you take another pic ( like the middle one) with you head tiltup just a little bit.
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hey no big thing, just would have been nice to see it from that point of view.
Of course, the perfect stovepipe block shape will lend the reverse taper, and as I said, sometimes with soft felt, my experience was it gave the hat too much. I can get too much even with this block shape, to my eye.
If I drop the back down, here is what she looks like. Quite a bit of reverse taper, with no stovepipe shape. If I blocked this hat on a perfect stovepipe, it would be even more reverse taper showing.
The lesson here is, you can get it with even a slightly tapered block too. Fedora
If I drop the back down, here is what she looks like. Quite a bit of reverse taper, with no stovepipe shape. If I blocked this hat on a perfect stovepipe, it would be even more reverse taper showing.
The lesson here is, you can get it with even a slightly tapered block too. Fedora
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I think the problem is your AB was supposed to look like the Raiders hat out of the box without the turn. Factor in the turn, and that changes everything. Here's my 360 stovepipe unturned - ........ Now, with the turn. A turned 360 stovepipe has a shorter top than an unturned one- therefore less reverse taper front and back.
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hey Fedora, wouldn't the seach for the " Hj Raiders block " ( that Ford's fedora was made ). wouldn't you need that same felt ( or felt used at the time) with your theory?
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looks like erri and indy trying my look.
hey Fedora, wouldn't the seach for the " Hj Raiders block " ( that Ford's fedora was made ). wouldn't you need that same felt ( or felt used at the time) with your theory?
Yep. I think if you took a stiff felt body, and blocked it on the original Raiders block, it would not look like the film hat. The felt does not react the same, and you get a different look. It would taper if you creased it as deep as the film hat. Fedora
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So, 2 1/2 years ago the Winston 360 was in existance for an hour and a half. I actually used the same block. I thought I threw it away. I flattened the top and sanded it a a little smaller for the new hat. Here's 2 pics from this thread. Looks like I made it too tall. I think I dropped it because the crown wasn't bulging over the ribbon, and I went to a biggger block to get some bulge- then there was too much reverse taper. Then I moved to way oversized Federations with stuffed sweats, then to Akubra Bushmen.