Jack@HJ wrote:fedoraiders wrote:Hello everyone,
It's been a long time since my last message but I’m still alive. It's been 10 years this year that I bought my first felt hat in a store in my area and and at this time I thought it was the right color for a Indiana Jones hat, (left picture) lol ! After this purchase, my passion was born for the Streets of Cairo hat and the right picture is my actual hat.
I put the hats beside me since several years but I decided to rework my old hats from my own collection. Several hats were badly stored in the box and these hats are just waiting to be reworked.
I have already sold the hats from my private collection but I'm not a hat vendor and I don’t take the order. Thanks for your comprehension.
The picture of the bottom was taken yesterday.
Thanks for looking!
These all look like great hats.
Very nice work.
Jack@hj
Thank you very much Jack!
It's practically all felt from Herbert Johnson. I love the Herbert Johnson felt but the new heavier felt that I used is a little bit too thick to give a Raiders shape pronounced as the fans likes.
For me the thickness is very important. I have a Herbert Johnson felt of 2009 and thickness is 2 millimeters and the new felt is 3 millimeters. It's hard to see the thickness of the hat in the movie but I would say more 2 millimeters.
If the felt of the hat in Raiders have really 2 millimeters, It's that the felt was a very good quality because after 2 months under the big sun of Tunisia, the felt has never shrunk. Also, I guess that Mr Swales was not to stretch the felt and this is a good thing.
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