Well, if you MUST know . . .shade88 wrote:David H: Love the hat, looks great.
DHW: Which hats do you have on order? I am curious.
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The next up is a custom job. Since I have a number of Indy sized hats, and now three "Penman" hats, which are a bit smaller, this one will be just a teeny bit smaller than a standard "Penman", and will be steel in color, with a light gray ribbon (as opposed to a darker, usually black ribbon). And it will have a welted edge. So, everything about this hat will be somewhat new. I have two grays (granite and charcoal, but not this steel gray, which apparently has a bit more of a blue hue to it), and I don't have any hats (not Penman hats anyway) with a welted edge. And none of my hats have a ribbon that is lighter in color than the felt. And while this well be no "stingy" brimmed hat, it will certainly be the smallest hat, all around, that John will have made for me.
Soon after, John will be making me an Indy-sized fedora, off his CS block, with all the usually CS styling, EXCEPT the color. It will be either Camel with a matching ribbon, OR Whiskey, with a lighter, gold ribbon. And I may have him put a bound edge on it. I want it to resemble the color scheme of the hat worn by Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, which is not a Fedora (his hat looks more like a drill sargeant's hat) but still a neat looking hat.
So, there you go . . .
I will post pics (OBVIOUSLY) as they arrive.
DHW
As to the bound edge on the "Indy" hat . . . I guess we'll discuss that later. 
Post pics soon or...
It could be the wrong hat?
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LOL!! well here's the situation: ordered two hats at the same time back in november. Both in Beaver. One is a gray Train hat. The other was a brown Indy hat. Was pretty sure I ordered a CS hat. Even checked my correspondence with John. When John sent me an email at the beginning of March, he sent me the bill for both hats, both beaver, but there was no specification as to style. No big deal I thought. I sent in my check and a few weeks later, my hat arrives. Well, I opened the box and the hat was in one of Johns gorgeous hat boxes!! Now, I never ordered a hat box, so I thought, wow, cool, this must be what comes with a Penman! then I noticed the bash was a Raider's bash. It was definitely my size! And there was even one of those "Like #### It's Yours" card with my name on it inside the sweatband. I started comparing the felt of this hat to one of John's older hats I have and this new hat feels less responsive and less dense than the other. So I looked at the sweat bands.......the old one says "Beaver Felt" and this new one says "Fine Fur Felt." I was up for hours examining these hats, thinking, "Nah, he couldn't have made a mistake. Maybe this is how the beaver felt he uses now feels. The other hat is much older. And maybe he doesn't print "Beaver Felt" on his new sweatbands anymore." On and on I racked my brain trying to figure things out then finally I just emailed John close to 1 A.M. about all this. He emailed this morning asking for the number inside the sweatband. I replied and I haven't heard from him yet. So meanwhile, I'm drooling over this hat that may or may not be mine, unable to wear it.
