Stopped by JJ Hat Center again trying to see what I can do about the ribbon for my up coming adventurer. While I was examining other hats, the guy showed me a bunch of hats that he said were full beaver felt. He was also showing me some rabbit felts, and I asked him if he was "sure" that the other hats were beaver, and he says yes 100% pure beaver.
I didn't know how to know if he was telling the truth or playing on my noobieness. How can you tell just by looking and feeling if a hat is rabbit or beaver (some hats only said pure fur felt or fine fure felt)?
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Felt question - How can you tell which fur it is?
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Discerning the difference requires experience. But with that said, the look and feel of pure beaver shouts out at you.didn't know how to know if he was telling the truth or playing on my noobieness. How can you tell just by looking and feeling if a hat is rabbit or beaver (some hats only said pure fur felt or fine fure felt)?
It takes only 20 per cent of beaver content to add the beaver nap and feel to a blend, but if you held the 20 per cent in one hand and the pure beaver in the other, most people could tell a big difference in the felt.
"Fine fur felt" just means that the hat is NOT wool. It could be pure rabbit, or a blend. A hat that is pure beaver will usually say so on the sweatband, although my own just say fine fur felt. I need to get a new die made since I was trying to make one sweatband fit all when I first started. At that time I sold rabbit as well. Fedora