My Raiders hat

[BendingOak]

I finally got to finish myself a Raiders hat. Here it is.

[Ian]

Looks awesome!!! Is that a Penamn?

I know it goes without saying, but aside from your hat making skills, your bashing is awesome! When I do mine or refine one, it always looks too 'neat' or deliberate. Yours look like they've always been there. I know it's experience etc, but still.

You say 'finally', you mean off your new block? Is your old one from the 360 video still alive and well? I always liked that one

Ian

[steerpike]

hey! this IS the best!
The best Raiders I ever saw! I don't think it is possibile to achieve more accuracy to the hat of the movie.
I think this is a new and definitive benchmark!!

Steerpike

[Indiana Dymond]

Good for you John.

I make and sell a lot of small StarWars prop parts,and I Very,Very rarely get to make or finnish anything for myself these days.

Bet you feel that you should have been doing a hat for a customer rather than yourself .

Great hat BTW

[tekors]

Another beautiful lid from John...
I like the colour

[djd]

It's a great looking hat! The colour reminds me of the shade a couple of older ABs I've seen have gone. Very warm colour. Nice

[Bemo]

Very nice John! I assume that's beaver and not rabbit?

[beaverlid]

John,
Great looking fedora! I agree with Ian, your bashing skills are top notch. I have learned the hard way to not try and bash my own lids. I have that gray LC lid you made me that I think will get a rebash in this style. I am heading over to get on your waiting list right now for a reblock and bash.

Beaverlid

[Michaelson]

I'm waiting for someone to try buying it off your head, like they did the grey last year.

Another beauty, John!

Regards! Michaelson

[Texan Scott]

Very sharp, John!

[binkmeisterRick]

Wait, you MADE that hat? Lookin' good, John!

[RaidersBash]

WOW John!!! GREAT HAT!!!

That's the hat I've always wanted, and see just how far my reblocked Fed is from being what my minds eye sees as being THE hat...

this is it!

I've always known that your hat was what I was gonna purchaase when I have the funds, but that really seals it.

It that your plain rabbit?

[Texan Scott]

I'd be willing to bet that it could be beaver?

[BendingOak]

Ian,

the 360 or the stomping Raiders hat is alive and well. That hat in that video was made off of a block about 2 Raiders blocks back. I needed to be wearing a current one.

Nope I don't feel like I should have been working on a customers hat because I worked it on my free time and it was stretched over a long period of time. Most of the time I would find a hour where the wife and kid was off doing something and I would run down to the shop and work on this hat. Took months to make. Where it doesn't normally go that way.

I read Rabbit and Beaver. I think I wont answer that question just yet. Tell me why you think its a certain felt?

[Texan Scott]

C'mon! Cough it up, Oakster.

[Michaelson]

I vote rabbit, but only because it's your own special blend. You've spoken highly of it ever since you first got it...so why not make one for yourself out of the material.
That's MY logic on the question!
Regards! Michaelson

[Texan Scott]

I'm going to say it's beaver, due to the color, the way the felt creases/bashes, and thinness of the felt. Also, John prefers beaver felt over rabbit, this much I know. just a hunch. difficult to tell.

[Ian]

I just can't tell, but I'll guess beaver due to the amount of rain that hat will see.

Ian

[Michaelson]

Ooo. I hadn't thought of that, Ian.

Regards! Micahelson

[Gorak]

I really like the "slouchiness" of the hat. Looks like it`s yours and only yours...though it kinda really is,huh?

[Bemo]

I'll say beaver as well due to the rainfall in Portland, particularly heading into fall and winter.

Really looks great!

[Bdgsi11]

That's a great looking hat John! I'd have to say that it is beaver material mainly for the same reasons as everyone else, but also because the felt looks very smooth, rich and soft.

[Texan Scott]

... ...he does have a vintage borsalino on hand....

[Ian]

... ...he does have a vintage borsalino on hand....

.. To my knowledge, there is no recorded evidence of anyone being able to 'Whack' the rain in Portland, Borsalino or not.

Ian

[Mitch LaRue]

That's just a lovely, lovely hat John.

My sincerest compliments to you.

[Ohio Jones]

Very nice hat John and the shape is AWESOME!

my vote on the felt is...uhmmm WOOL!!!!...wait....Alpaca!!!

Just kidding buddy....great work..its a chip off the new block!

Ohio

[G-Roberts]

That looks awesome! Fantastic work as always. Super SA. I'm saying Rabbit because of the SA bash, only because I've "heard" that beaver takes a while to get the bash right and work it in though I don't know how true that is as I dont own one.
Graeme

[BendingOak]

To many detectives and not enough people looking at the hat itself. It's beaver alright.my rabbit felt would do fine here in Oregon.


The bash took me two minutes to put in. I don't even think about it anymore when it comes to my hats. I never go for any one scene. I think it doesn't make much sense because over time when one handles the hat the crease changes.

[Texan Scott]

What do I win?

[BendingOak]

A free drink of old rasputin but you have to fly out here to get it.

[Texan Scott]

May take a raincheck on that one and the museum.

[BendingOak]

May take a raincheck on that one and the museum.

[fuzzjunk]

Simply Stupendous!!! , nice work John!

That's exactly what I'm looking for in a Raiders hat, great detail!

-Scott

[BendingOak]

Very nice hat John and the shape is AWESOME!

my vote on the felt is...uhmmm WOOL!!!!...wait....Alpaca!!!

Just kidding buddy....great work..its a chip off the new block!

Ohio

How did you know it's my new line of wool hats.

[binkmeisterRick]

I guess I shouldn't spill the beans on your papier mache line coming down the pike?

[Noah]

Awesome Raiders hat John! Wonderful job as always!