rebashing a hat
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rebashing a hat
Is there a way I can reform the crown of an already formed hat. The hat i have has the teardrop shape on the crown. I want to reform to more of a Raider's style crown and pinch.
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Question: do you soak it, put it in "open crown mode"...Kokopelli wrote:you can do it yourself also. If it's a stiff, 'molded in' type teardrop, soak the crown in cold distilled water and work it back out into open crown condition. Let it dry, and then go to town on re-creating the bash!
LET IT DRY....
And then after it has dried, re-bash it?
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Yesjkdbuck76 wrote:Question: do you soak it, put it in "open crown mode"...Kokopelli wrote:you can do it yourself also. If it's a stiff, 'molded in' type teardrop, soak the crown in cold distilled water and work it back out into open crown condition. Let it dry, and then go to town on re-creating the bash!
LET IT DRY....
And then after it has dried, re-bash it?
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Acually everytime I re-shape my hat I soak it in cold water, then place it on a block I made, then when it dries I spray alittle fabric startch on it to stiffen it up, and while its damp from the startch I re-shape it and it always works great for me. But my hat is a Christys Adventurer so it may work different on other hats.
How "cold" is cold? Like out of the fridge? Or room temp?The_Raiders wrote:Acually everytime I re-shape my hat I soak it in cold water, then place it on a block I made, then when it dries I spray alittle fabric startch on it to stiffen it up, and while its damp from the startch I re-shape it and it always works great for me. But my hat is a Christys Adventurer so it may work different on other hats.
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Well anywhere from room temp or colder acually, I've use really icy cold water before also.jkdbuck76 wrote:How "cold" is cold? Like out of the fridge? Or room temp?The_Raiders wrote:Acually everytime I re-shape my hat I soak it in cold water, then place it on a block I made, then when it dries I spray alittle fabric startch on it to stiffen it up, and while its damp from the startch I re-shape it and it always works great for me. But my hat is a Christys Adventurer so it may work different on other hats.
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Hatsdirect has a short tutorial on bashing the Fed IV. Here is the link if you haven't seen it already:
http://www.hatsdirect.com/hat-info/shaping.html
Happy cracking,
Ryan
http://www.hatsdirect.com/hat-info/shaping.html
Happy cracking,
Ryan
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Re: rebashing a hat
Thanks for the information. Will some of these techniques work on some the Indiana Jones hats from the early to mid eighties, I have two that my father bought me unfortunately one hat was smashed by something and the local western wear store said they could not reshape it.