I have had several people ask about bound edges. I had a singer 108 bound edge machine in my shed at the house that I brought to the store this morning and set up. I grabbed on of my indy samples off the wall and here is what came out.
That is really superb....had no idea one could bind a hat that was deminsionaly cut! I have always fatasized about such a beast, but never seen one put into practice. That is really cool...nice touch! W>
I LOVE bound edged hats. Will you be adding this to your website as a service now, JP? I know a black hat in my stable that could use this kind of addition.
I sure will. it will be $25 option on hats I make, to to have it put on if I do not have to flange the brim first. If I do flange, bind, and recrease, it will be $45. Don't have a pic yet, but I also did a 4 ligne(about 3/8") binding on a western hat also. So I can do the open road style hat.
I'm one of the ones that asked JP about the bound brim. I debated which hat I wanted first..a bound brim Indy hat, as in the photo, or a late 40's Howard Hughes type hat, which is the one I settled on.
By the way, this hat SUPPOSEDLY was a Herbert Johnson!
I have people ask me why so much all the time. that is at least 12 to 15 hours worth of work, on a western hat it is more like 25 to 30. When you split the cost by the hours it isn't a whole lot.
I have people ask me why so much all the time. that is at least 12 to 15 hours worth of work, on a western hat it is more like 25 to 30. When you split the cost by the hours it isn't a whole lot.
That's the thing. Many people think these operations are done in a couple of minutes!!! To me, doing the bound brim on a homburg, or pencil rolled brim is something that fascinates me. Especially the binding that only has visible stitching on one side of the brim. Fedora
I believe I'm going to have to send back the black you made me last year, JP, for a major brim overhaul. Guess we'll see what happens after the first of the year!
Problem is, it would be more like asking Curly of the Three Stooges for the time! I'll pull out two different pocket watches, then refer to the watch on my wrist for an average.