Is this still an accurate flow-chart of how it's made?

TonyRush · Post by **TonyRush** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:43 pm

Knowing absolutely NOTHING about how a fur-felt hat is made, I looked around online and found a few articles. One was accompanied by a photo that shows the various stages of a fur-felt hat.

Is this still an accurate idea of how it starts and finishes?

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:46 pm

Yep!

mufflowne · Post by **mufflowne** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:45 pm

That's very interesting.

jbbowers · Post by **jbbowers** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:13 pm

Here's a little bit larger photo of three of the steps. These are all undyed rabbit:

Brad

Fletch · Post by **Fletch** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:18 pm

And here are two pics of Winchester felt beaver hoods along the same process that JW Hats had when I went down and spent the day with them to get some hatting tips. Tough to tell the difference between the rabbit and beaver felt until the felt gets shrunk down.

A young son of one of his customers unfortunately put some holes in it when left unattended but man was it soft as a cloud.

And the same size cone shrunk down with hot water and some rolling and compressing action at the factory...

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:36 pm

Now you know why a hat wants to taper. That cone is its natural shape!

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:01 pm

Bink is right, a felt hat starts as a cone and heads back that way as soon as it starts being worn. How soon? Well that depends...

Kokopelli · Post by **Kokopelli** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:07 pm

jbbowers wrote: These are all undyed rabbit:

Brad

Undyed Rabbits?! Zombies?! Oh...wait...un dyed -ok, nevermind.

alanseijas · Post by **alanseijas** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:23 pm

WHAT????

WAIT!!!!!

The rabbit is actually not ... alive ... and on MY head?????????

Indiana Max · Post by **Indiana Max** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:38 pm

Fink · Post by **Fink** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:53 pm

"Uh... what's up, Doc Jones?"

darthbish · Post by **darthbish** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:29 am

HEY!!....That shrunk cone looks like what I get when I clean the air filter on my clothes dryer

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:16 am

Well, what are you waiting for? Make a hat out of it! I wonder is static cling would be a problem with that hat...

WhipDude · Post by **WhipDude** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:41 pm

That's neat. Thanks for sharing. I was curious about this stuff but never thought of asking

Fink, that was to good!

Indiana G · Post by **Indiana G** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:57 pm

binkmeisterRick wrote:Now you know why a hat wants to taper. That cone is its natural shape!

and in the case of HJ.....its finished shape as well......SLAMMO!

couldn't resist.....S-A-B....i hate these guys!!!!

binkmeisterRick · Post by **binkmeisterRick** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:03 pm

WhipDude wrote: Fink, that was to good!

WHo are you calling a fink?

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