FANTASTIC!!!!
I could only hope for something like this. Thank you, Mitch. Thank you for a complete review convering all the points that I, back in my lurking days, would look for folks to do on a hat. After the kind of weekend I had, this really perked me up and reminded me why I wanted to to this. I had a stubbord weekend dealing with a hat making issue that frustrated me madly. My family was helping me with a minute detail problem that I haven't overcome yet. You hat makers can relate to my problem. My eye for detail causes me to push the envelope on my hat making. My eye wasn't being satisfied on one of the details of the hat. Drove me nuts.
At moments, I was like this
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So I hop on COW and read this. Like I always say "A surveyor needs a good benchmark to check with to know if he is doing it right." Mitch became my benchmark today. Thanks, Mitch. I love how detailed you got. I think you can't write enough (especially about my hat
) Again, thanks.
Regarding the load of pics previoulsy posted, you ought to see my hard drive. I have done the same thing when I was working on my block. I took every known angle and would compare the hat to the film. In this Mitch understands a minute point about the hat and staed it. The hat changes from different angles. The movie hat does the same and this is a detail I was after. There is more to my hat than just the block. I am after recreating the full essence of the film hat. The earlier pics clearly showed this aspect of the hat. I thank you for that Mitch, because it gave me a chance to see what someone else sees about the hat. It confirmed that to me with your multi-angle posts. Thank you Moderators for holding the rules as I was not aware of the limit to link posts. Now I know and that is O.K. We must obey rules.
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have helped me greatly and I appreciate their watchful eyes. They have welcomed me warmly to this site. I felt like I knew these two before I even joined, because I lurked for my years before joining. I respect both of the folks greatly and they deserve there positions as administrators.
Pitfall and others, Mitch is correct that I am taking orders for hats. Mitch did take advantage of the pre-order offer. These early orders gave me hats to refine my skills. I am still refining points on the hat. I am still training my eyes and fingers on the pouncing. I error on the side of caution when it comes to brim width. It is alot easier to take a little off than to put some back on. Super glue and duct tape hasn't worked too well.
I working to recreate the Raiders hat as close as possible in every aspect. I want to produce the hat that I was always wanting. Part of that is when you pull the hat out of the box, put it on your head, you say "That's it".
I was finishing up a Cairo style hat that someone ordered. I looked at the hat when I finished dusting it up and thought, "I hope the customer feels that he picked up the hat just after Indy took it off at the Marhala Bar drink scene. That will remain to be seen, but that is how much effort I put into these hats.
To sum up, thanks for the follow up compliments from the members here. Mitch has shaped the hat in the exterior temple scene style. I think it looks great. I did the side-by-side comparison pic to show how well he did. When I sent him the hat, I bashed it with the traditional turned style with a 4-1/2" front pinch, 3-1/2 rear drop. He very easily rebashed it to his style adn "pow" exterior temple hat. Very goo, Mitch.
O.K., back to cutting out line through some cudzu and see how well my traverse closes.
LLS
Great review. I absolutely love my Garrison Raider more and more each day. I'm definitely glad I took the prototype pre-order plunge.
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