Club Obi Wan

Dangerman009 wrote:I've often wondered about reshaping a crushable wool felt hat. They're usually treated with some kind of water repellent, right?

I would assume so becuse wool, in and of itself, is not water repellant enough to be much help for very long even a mild rain, at least in my own personal experience.

I have a couple of old wool felts (fedoras) that I was able to recrease using a water sprayer. One held the new creases without need for 'maintenance,' the other slightly less so. I also have a couple of those crushable (cowboy) wool felt hats that dont take a new shaping at all, no matter what.

binkmeisterRick wrote:

you kinda look like Adam Savage here... if only you were wearing a black T-shirt under the jacket.........

please don't ban me...........

davidd wrote:


As an aside: fedoras don't work well with long hair, do they? At least, not on guys.

It's always a question isn't it - tuck in the bangs, or no?

Thanks for the photos, appreciate it!

Just so I wouldn't be totally off-topic... here's my "officially licensed" Indy hat.

Don't laugh...................


Obviously photoshopped. I also photoshopped over my watch cuz I forgot I was wearing a digital watch. Oh, and that's my duct tape whip.

davidd wrote:

As an aside: fedoras don't work well with long hair, do they? At least, not on guys.

Although fedoras were 'not made for' long hair (on guys, anyway), for whatever reason, I think that this hat/hair/person combo works very well.

fenris, don't worry! Everyone has a starter hat of some sort. This is the one thread which allows those hats (the official ones, anyhow) their time in the sun for a change.

So, can you guess what my hat is (hopefully it will be 'was' when my new one arrives).

binkmeisterRick wrote:Actually, David, I think that one works pretty well for you! While not truly Indy, I like the looks of it as a hat. It's got a lot of nifty character to it.

Indeed. It's a nice inexpensive hat with character. It may not last as long as, say an Akubra or AB, but has plenty of style, and in my book, that's all that matters on something like this.

Randy

Yes indeed, these hats don't get enough good press around here. They are decent hats that serve the people that buy them (usually not regular hat wearers) well.

Fenris, your hat looks good. You might want to beat it up a little and put some fuller's earth or (unused) kitty liter on it. Since you made the duct tape whip, why not make a duct tape fedora?

Here's mine from Halloween this year. It's a good start, but I'm already planning on an upgrade sometime soon.


And with my wife "Lara Croft"

Dangerman009 wrote:Yes indeed, these hats don't get enough good press around here. They are decent hats that serve the people that buy them (usually not regular hat wearers) well.

Fenris, your hat looks good. You might want to beat it up a little and put some fuller's earth or (unused) kitty liter on it. Since you made the duct tape whip, why not make a duct tape fedora?

It's only a costume hat and is stiff as a board... although it had kinda softened up after being used almost everyday. When I get my Christy's maybe I'd experiment with it a bit for fun.

Oh, here's another hat. It came with the Hasbro sound-effect whip. It's like santropene or something... feels like the material used on gym gloves.

No picture (yet), but a story...

First off, despite the potential to be OCD, I'm perhaps the farthest thing from a SA-wannabe on this board. It would be so easy to slip into the chase for perfection, I'm better off just avoiding the whole attraction entirely. All that said...

Flash back to about 2 years ago...

Crystal Skull is coming up soon. Thinking of Indy for the first time in a decade, I suddenly miss my collection of Young Indiana Jones soundtracks (among the handful of CDs I wore down to nubbins listening to whilst trekking across the city to University in the early '90s). While arranging to have those delivered to me out of storage, I start to Google to see "what's up". (A this point, I REALLY should have known better. Usually when this happens I end up spending a couple of years and thousands of dollars deeply re-obsessing over a former passion. http://www.travellermap.com was the last one. http://www.calormen.com/Logo is more recent.)

Flash forward a few months - on a trip with the munchkin to Disneyland, my wife picks me up one of the extremely cheap unlined, crushable wool teardrops*. Hey, what's wrong with that? Looks perfect, right? Wear it to the Crystal Skull premier, am so cool.

A few more months, and I realize I need a bag to schlep stuff to/from work (20 minute walk), I wonder what Indy carries? OMFG those kids on Club Obi-Wan are insane. (Tangent: I picked up what is now known as a "Jack Bauer" bag from Urban Outfitters online.) Reading... reading... rolling eyes... reading... start ordering too many safari shirts... reading... hey, whips, that sounds cool... reading... order german alpine backpack... buy ziplight and customize... reading... reading... MUST NOT SPEND MONEY...

So about four months ago it's actually *sunny* in San Francisco. (I *know*!) I dig out a hat. Yes, the cheap-### wool teardrop. Oh, sheez. Now that I've actually read this board, it's... unwearable! The horror... the horror...

So.

Step 1: find a pot that's about as wide as the hat
Step 2: invert said hat into the pot
Step 3: fill the hat with boiling water
Step 4: wait for the water to cool to room temperature
Step 5: pour out the water. The hat now looks like part of the Seamus McFly collection.
Step 6: heat up an iron. steam a central bash in to within an inch of its life
Step 7: use a metal clip on the front of the hat to get a SOC-esque pinch
Step 8: get the clip too hot and singe the wool a bit. *sigh*
Step 9: look at the hat, realize the brim is too stiff and wide
Step 10: cut off the sewn brim edge (and remove the plastic ring!)
Step 11: ask myself what I have done
Step 12: wear the #### thing, in spite of it all

Inexcusable taper. Floppy brim. Scorched pinch. But it keeps the sun off on the walk to work, and the co-workers can correctly assume I'm treading the fine line between eccentric and insane.

* I love the tag, though - laminated that and use it as a bookmark.

To make a long story short, you murdered the hat. Hehe.

What a relief. I'm not the only one to have ruined a hat.

Speaking of destroying a licensed hat...



You all saw what this hat looked like before, well this is after. I learned a valuable lesson: this kind of felt doesn't like near boiling water.

That looks like a mountain man accurate hat!

Randy

Did mountain men wear teal-colored hats?

I'm sure they took whatever color they could get.

Randy

Dangerman009 wrote:Speaking of destroying a licensed hat...



You all saw what this hat looked like before, well this is after. I learned a valuable lesson: this kind of felt doesn't like near boiling water.

Dorfman?

Yes, it's a Dorfman. Although now it could pass for a lady's hat, or a mountain man's hat.

Are you sure you weren't going for the flapper look Dangerman?

theinterchange wrote:Are you sure you weren't going for the flapper look Dangerman?

Pretty sure. I don't know if that is flapper accurate.

I had sized it down for someone else to wear. Then I was going to size it back up for me. I think it was one too many times in the hot, hot, hot, steaming hot water. Don't try this at home.

Just out of curiosity, which colour did it start out as Dangerman?

Regards, Geert

It was the standard brown. Here's one of the before pictures again.

Wow, that's quite the colour change I read your previous post as stating you owned several of those, so I wasn't sure if it was the same one. My guess was that it was a more greenish one as I have seen pictures of those, but a brown one turning into that? I need a "shudder" emoticon for that, but this will do:

Regards, Geert

It actually looked really good for a DP in the before shot.

Randy

Yes, it didn't look bad. Now it's a sad, sorry little hat. Do you suppose it could be of use to anybody?

I handed mine down to my 12 year old nephew. He loves it!

It's snowing in Houston!

JRabbit wrote:It's snowing in Houston!

Seriously? Or is that code? It's cold enough to snow here, although that's much more common than snow in Houston.

Seriously! It's the earliest it's ever snowed in Houston in recorded history.

People are having snowball fights in the parking lot at work!

That's amazing! So much for global warming. It reminds me of the show A Year Without Santa Clause.

Mitch LaRue wrote:

twilekjedi wrote:I didn't buy this, but I found an "official" hat with a very different band while vacationing in Asheville this past spring. Teardrop bash, stitched brim.

My son bought that very hat from the Animal Kingdom Lodge Gift Shop when we were visiting Disney last year, twilekjedi!

That's THE hat that started it all for me last summer (2008), same leather strap. We visited Leavenworth, WA and it was in an Australian shop. It was one of the few hats that ever actually fit me right. I began wearing it every day, ordered an CS AB that fall, and recently retired it to wear my brand new gray CS train Penman. Turns out I have a long oval noggin which is probably why hat usually don't fit me right.

This is it. I removed the hokey IJ gold medallion.
http://www.indianajoneshats.net/catalog/pages/IJ555.htm

Which one of the above hats are the $500 limited edition version?

This be it, it's 100% beaver.
http://www.villagehatshop.com/indiana_j ... r_hat.html
http://indianajoneshats.net/catalog/pag ... bFrame.htm

It's pitiful to think that some uninformed people would spend $500 on one of those. Too bad there's no 'shudder' emoticon.

I do like the black liner... hehe. I know, I know... not SA. I just love the way the black liner looks.

You all saw what this hat looked like before, well this is after. I learned a valuable lesson: this kind of felt doesn't like near boiling water.

Reminds me a little of...."Come listen to my story bout' a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed........." Beverly Hillbillees.

Jed would have been mightly proud to own a hat like that one. Fedora

Fedora wrote:

You all saw what this hat looked like before, well this is after. I learned a valuable lesson: this kind of felt doesn't like near boiling water.

Reminds me a little of...."Come listen to my story bout' a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed........." Beverly Hillbillees.

Jed would have been mightly proud to own a hat like that one. Fedora

If Jed was pimping out Elly May! Get an ostrich feather for that bad boy and you are good to go!

Regards,

Indiana Jeff

Well old Jed was in bad need of a new hat!! Sure, holes may add character, but only to a certain point!

That one mishapened hat above reminds me of what cha see on hillbillys in some films. My raw bodies do too!!

That one Official hat with the non accurate top crease looks pretty spiffy though, although far from an Indy fedora. But, I like it for a non Indy hat. Gotta western look to it with the bigger brim.

I reblocked an early Stetson recently, one of the first Indy fedoras from them, and I was actually impressed with the felt, when compared to the DP. It stretched out so easily, and took the new blockshape really well. I always wanted to see this early hat from Stetson and now I have! Hey, they were decent back in those days, with the Indy fedora. The sweatband was still in great shape too, so it was pretty good quality there as well. It had shrunk up pretty bad, but when you can stretch the hat back out, easily, this presents no problem at all. It's when you can't stretch the shrunken crown out, that is the problem. This hat was from the TOD era, I think. And did not look like the felt seen on the later Temples. So, something changed from then to now. For the worse, I think.

Fedora wrote: Well old Jed was in bad need of a new hat!! Sure, holes may add character, but only to a certain point!

That one mishapened hat above reminds me of what cha see on hillbillys in some films. My raw bodies do too!!

So true, I was at Penman's shop the other day and saw his hat bodies and couldn't help but think they looked like something on the scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ. He said he gets them from the same felt guy you do. Are these 100% beaver felts made in the USA or elsewhere?

If you're asking John's and Steve's felt cones, the beaver felts are felted here in the U. S.

Regards! Michaelson

Dangerman009 wrote:It's pitiful to think that some uninformed people would spend $500 on one of those. Too bad there's no 'shudder' emoticon.

Can you get them any more? While not real Indy looking they are actually not bad hats and at one time you could find them for much less than $500.

Fedora wrote:Jed would have been mightly proud to own a hat like that one. Fedora

Maybe it's screen accurate after all? Except for the color. With a feather it looks like something Huggy Bear might've worn.

my dorfman , with new band i had put on a year ago , it was a nice hat --- i still wear occasionally , but since i have gotten my two todds hats i don't wear it daily like i use to ,


my son is wearing my old 1984 hat i bought when temple of doom came out

The DP that Chewie gave my kid a while back (see this thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43186&p=620712&hilit=carter#p620712). He still loves it.


Travis

My goodness, thats cute. You can see the pride.

maboot38 wrote:And here is a collage of the attempted SA conversion (original across top)
There is just nothing you can do with that taper:

I did that same thing and that's almost exactly how mine turned out.

RCSignals wrote:

Dangerman009 wrote:It's pitiful to think that some uninformed people would spend $500 on one of those. Too bad there's no 'shudder' emoticon.

Can you get them any more? While not real Indy looking they are actually not bad hats and at one time you could find them for much less than $500.

Yep, all over the place. $495-$595! Hasn't really dropped in price.
http://www.sheplers.com/hats/indiana_jo ... 010=096A24
http://www.millerhats.com/indiana_jones ... shats.html
http://www.villagehatshop.com/indiana_j ... r_hat.html
http://www.tedsclothiers.com/products.c ... goryname=6

http://twitpic.com/zy7og
It looks okay, it took me a long time to get it looking like this. but it shrank a bit since I wet it, so when I wear it, the front brim slightly warps from the shape I want it.
http://twitpic.com/zy80f
here's me wearing it. I don't like how I posed for it, I took it with my phone.

It's been a while, but better to "necro" this topic than to start a new one, particularly for these photos!

Besides, unearthing the past, that's what archaeologists do, right?

More shots of everybody's favorite Indy hat, the Officially Licensed Dorfman Pacific Wool Felt Fedora!









This is the "dusted finish" version of the "crushable" wool felt Indy fedora.

(For the "detail oriented": the jacket in the background is a Willis & Geiger A2.)