Club Obi Wan

Beautiful hats, gents. It will drive me crazy until I get mine, so I've been trying to avoid looking at this thread. Today I had a moment of weakness, and here I am. Still, the pain gives me hope. Maybe I'll have mine by the end of the year.

I just ordered my AB Deluxe today, the wait begins...

that is one of the coolest pictures I have seen in a long time..

a cross between Indy and Bruce cambell in Evil dead.


well done

Holt

Well, I haven't posted much around here lately, but I figured I'd pop in to share some pics of my AB DELUXE.

It was about a year ago this month that I received this hat, my second AB Deluxe from Marc, and from day one, I put it through some serious wear in all sorts of weather. It's been rained on plenty and thoroughly soaked, worn in humid heat, icy cold and all sorts of weather in between. And yes, it's seen its fair share of nice and sunny days as well. I've worn it as a dress hat and I've worn it on the hiking trails and around the campfire, too. No matter what it goes through, it just seems to look better, at least to me. I got it open-crown and bashed it myself into what I like to call a "Clean Cairo", that is, turned brim, tight front pinch and with the straight-sided style of the Cairo hat, but without all the droops and lumps and bumps and dust. However, I'd always been curious about how it would look if it got a little sprinkling of "Cairo dust", so for these pics I decided to dirty it up a bit to bring out some more of the Indy character.

It may not be a shot for shot, frame by frame, exact match for the Cairo fedora in all departments (I added dust, but I still haven't worked the felt over to give it the added lumps and bumps and droops and such) but it works for me.

THE PICS:

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD013.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD021.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD075.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD086.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD090.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD101.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD114.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD121.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD120.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD119.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p163 ... ABD032.jpg

Unlike many things in life, Marc's hats truly do get better with age. Thanks again for an amazing hat, Marc!

-GCR

Alright, here are early pictures of my new Sea Plane Gray AB. I am not done with the bashing, to say the least, but the sun peaked out today and I grabbed the camera.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27810273@N ... 810784925/

GCR, you've done a great job on that AB Deluxe.

Chewbacca Jones, that gray AB is one sharp-looking fedora, and you wear it well.

best wishes,
Nebraska Schulte

Chewbacca Jones wrote:Alright, here are early pictures of my new Sea Plane Gray AB. I am not done with the bashing, to say the least, but the sun peaked out today and I grabbed the camera.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27810273@N ... 810784925/

Congrats on the hat. It looks great, and since I'm awaiting my own gray AB I was very interested in seeing it.

Is there a difference between the Sea Plane hat and the CS train hat?

Chewbacca Jones wrote:Alright, here are early pictures of my new Sea Plane Gray AB. I am not done with the bashing, to say the least, but the sun peaked out today and I grabbed the camera.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27810273@N ... 810784925/

Looks brown to me. [ducks] :junior: -M

Alan wrote: Is there a difference between the Sea Plane hat and the CS train hat?

Only the bash, I think.

And ribbon. I think the train hat had a thinner ribbon...could be wrong, though.

Dave

also, I could be wrong, but I don't think the CS hat has the same brown undertones. :junior: -M

I don't think so either. I think the color of the sea plane has was closer to Burma, which is actually one of the colors offered on the Christy's.

Dave

Mulceber wrote:also, I could be wrong, but I don't think the CS hat has the same brown undertones. :junior: -M

Oh yes, the CS hat does have the brown undertones. AB is using the same color felt that they used to make the CS movie hat.

In other words, what you get from AB will be accurate to the CS color for sure, and best guess to the Raiders (because the real gray Raiders hat is, alas, long gone).

Chewie, I gotta be honest, I disagree with you here. I could be wrong, but when I look at Steve's seaplane gray and the gray of the CS hat, I really don't see any brown undertones in the latter whereas the former, in certain lighting, actually does look brown. Different colors, imo. :junior: -M

Mulciber, from my understanding, Steve does use the same felt. He can clarify that, though. But with my hat, I do notice significant differences in different lighting conditions.

Mulceber wrote:Chewie, I gotta be honest, I disagree with you here. I could be wrong, but when I look at Steve's seaplane gray and the gray of the CS hat, I really don't see any brown undertones in the latter whereas the former, in certain lighting, actually does look brown. Different colors, imo. :junior: -M

I can say for a fact it's the same felt. trust me.

Keep in mind that Steve changed his felt when he got the Indy 4 job. The older sea plane hats are a slightly different shade than the current ones.

As for current comparisons, it's all in the lighting. But as Oak says, it's the same felt. Not just the same color... the felt.

It is a good case example of how things look different due to monitors, lighting, and other conditions, though.

Chewbacca Jones wrote:Keep in mind that Steve changed his felt when he got the Indy 4 job. The older sea plane hats are a slightly different shade than the current ones.

As for current comparisons, it's all in the lighting. But as Oak says, it's the same felt. Not just the same color... the felt.

It is a good case example of how things look different due to monitors, lighting, and other conditions, though.

I'm not sure what you mean by your first line??

From batch to batch there is a slight difference but I believe he still uses the same felt.

Based on what Steve told me, he sources the felt from the same place, but changed to different felt as a result of trying to find just the right felt for the movie hats. The quality was the same, but he said the felt was closer in feel and look to the Raiders felt, and made the change on the gray hat felt, too, because he liked it so much.

Also, I've noticed that every gray AB I've seen other than mine (in person, all older) looked different in the same "direction" (lack of a better phrase).

I took some better pics of my AB.

Here I am in my new Adventurebilt CS..
Let me tell you its a sweet fedora!!!!!

Is that the one I saw a few weeks back in Memphis?

Piker wrote:Is that the one I saw a few weeks back in Memphis?

YEP!!!!

I finally received my second AB. KOTCS style.
Thanks Steve, loving it!

I love that second pic, QG! You should make that your new avatar!

I agree, the Indy kissing Indy is freaking me out.


..and again nice hat Steve. Every last one is a work of art.

BendingOak wrote:I agree, the Indy kissing Indy is freaking me out.

*lol* alrighty, done

very nice. I can live ounce again, thank you.


You know I'm joking right.

Quantum Girl, that's an excellent looking fedora!

best wishes,
Nebraska Schulte

Hat looks GREAT (as usual...)

And you wear it well (as usual... I assume - we've only just met...)

Mitch

Hello COW'ers!
Someone please answer me this.... If i order an AB Regular, let say.... TODAY, how long should I wait to receive it? :

Greetings from Mexico and best regards to all,
-Alfonso

Alan wrote:I took some better pics of my AB.

Those pics could work in the AB site! They're amazing!

Best regards,

-Alfonso

Alan! How did you take those pics? They look so professional!

All of your ABs are splendid!!! And I only have another 8 months wait to go....

MustangLoverMex wrote:Hello COW'ers!
Someone please answer me this.... If i order an AB Regular, let say.... TODAY, how long should I wait to receive it? :

Greetings from Mexico and best regards to all,
-Alfonso

a while i suspect. if i could get anykind of AB indy style hat for my birthday (30th september) id order right now!

spenyk wrote:Alan! How did you take those pics? They look so professional!

Thanks for the kind words (you, too, MLM).

I built one of these then took it outside for good strong light coverage. Use your macro camera setting and play with the white balance on your camera menu. Mine has some automatic settings for sunlight and also for indoor light. They really help in getting the right color. I've been having a blast playing around with it.

The camera I used is my wife's cast off digital so it's several years old. In other words, you don't have to have the latest most expensive camera at all.

The AB CS actually on my head:

That's one fine lid, Alan...
Congrats!
Mitch

Has anybody lately recived any Grey Crystal Skull AB?
I think I've only seen a couple of pics of it...

Odo wrote:Has anybody lately recived any Grey Crystal Skull AB?
I think I've only seen a couple of pics of it...

Well, I didn't get it bashed. It was open crowned and I did it with no film in mind. Still, it's an AB and gray. Should be a page or two back on this thread.

Thanks for answering. I saw your hat and I like it a lot. In some pictures it looks grey with a shade of blue, and in the other, grey with some brown tone.
So I was guessing if the felt used in Raiders and the one in Skull could be the same or not, as in your hat I see both shades.
Besides that, the grey hat in Steve's web looks much lighter than others I've seen.
In fact, the skull hat looks lighter than the one in Raiders, but it changes a lot according to the lights. So I'm not sure if it is lighter or not.

(sorry for the poor quality pics)
The one over the table looks Raiders grey to me...

Well, Odo, it's all the same hat, so it just goes to show how lighting can effect the look of things.

True, bink, true...

Speaking for myself, I know that I, for example, get better looking in DIRECT proportion to how dim the lighting is...


Mitch

Ahuh. And I FEEL better looking with every dirty dry martini I drink.

Dave

slowdevil wrote:

Needless to say... I'm a colossal geek. Also needless to say... I'm REALLY excited about Indy 4.

J

Slowdevil, forgive me if you've already said this and I missed it, but what sort of lighting did you use to get the red?

As a photography geek, I'm curious.

Randy

Nebraska Schulte wrote:Excellent looking AB's, gentlemen!

I managed to get my AB right before leaving for a dig outside of Jerusalem. Here are a few photos of it, the first at home, the second in the airport at Tel Aviv, and the third in front of the Albright Institute for Archaeology in Jerusalem:

NS, what bash did you ask for?

Any new ABs?

Dave

Kokopelli wrote:

Nebraska Schulte wrote:Excellent looking AB's, gentlemen!

I managed to get my AB right before leaving for a dig outside of Jerusalem. Here are a few photos of it, the first at home, the second in the airport at Tel Aviv, and the third in front of the Albright Institute for Archaeology in Jerusalem:

NS, what bash did you ask for?

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner--I was in Boston for a conference at the time. This is the KotCS bash, and you can see the similarities most closely with these two photos:


Interestingly enough, I believe I originally requested a Raiders bash made on the KotCS block, but after seeing the newest movie, I was really leaning towards getting the KotCS bash. Turns out that's what I got, and I couldn't be happier. I received it just two days before hopping on a plane to Israel for my first dig, and have worn it ever since. Many of the established archaeologists and other scholars I ran into at the SBL conference I was at last week really enjoyed seeing my AB. It really is a great hat for both in the field and at the university.

best wishes,
Nebraska Schulte

I love this hat, rarely going anywhere without it, so I had to post a picture of yours truly and add my endorsement of Adventurebilt. It is truly the best hat in my collection and the only one that is never on the hat rack.

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in this photo is GREAT! (But ESPECIALLY that hat!)

Well Done, 'Flynn!