Club Obi Wan

Hello everybody, i just received yesterday a box from Steve Delk, he sent me my reblocked Pagey's beaver AB and another beaver. Not an indy one. I bought a hat for my mum so i asked steve to make a 30's look for a lady's hat. It's a beave and oh guys! It makes me wanting another AB now!!! It's really soft and thin, i think it's the same softness of the original indy H-J (or at least very close to it!). You can really shape it easily, it's incredible! With the new 39mm ribbon it will be The Hat!
Steve come and help me if i made any mistake.
I'll try to take pics today if my camera battery are not empty

Sorry, but the hat I made for your mom is the winchester felt too. I have not acquired the Portugal line yet. The lighter and different color of your mom's hat is probably throwing you off. Also, I pounced it differently since it is a ladies hat. regards, Fedora

I corrected my first post
It's softer than the beaver i have anyway! It's really an amazing hat. My mum loves it!
Thank you Steve

It's softer than the beaver i have anyway! It's

Yes, I did it that way intentionally. I can make these beaver hats really soft, with a velvet like nap, or I can do them like the Indy fedoras, with less nap, and therefore less of a lint magnet. It's all in the way you pounce. Glad she liked it!! regards, Fedora

erri,
Take a photo, if you have a chance. I would love to see that ladies hat.
Congratulations on a nice gift.

Hemingway Jones wrote:erri,
Take a photo, if you have a chance. I would love to see that ladies hat.
Congratulations on a nice gift.

I missed the chance today but i'll try tomorrow. I will also post pics of my reblocked beaver. I had some cash before Christmas and i could have been selfish and bought another AB for myself ... or well, i thought, what the h*ll, it's Christmas! so my mum is another happy AB owner now

Erri, I think it's great that you got your mother a hat! We really do need to see a pic of both of you together in your hats, though.

bink

lol ok i'll organize it soon

Bash!!?? Pics!!????

prairiejones wrote:Bash!!?? Pics!!????

The hat, the HAT! No hitting mommies here. And certainly no pictures of it, either, for that matter...

...move along...

Only 4 hours more and she'll be back with the hat from work

Patience my friends patience (yoda voice)


:post: here they are





I think it still miss of "personality" but it will surely get it with time and wearing as well as every hat

I love the bow on that hat, erri. How did mom like it? It's a beaut.

Hmmm...
Fedora, I didn't know that you were getting into ladies' haberdashery as well. That's kind of a neat look, almost like what Meryl Streep wore in "Out of Africa" but with a narrower brim. I might try to surprise my wife with one of those.

Cheers!

Hemingway Jones wrote:I love the bow on that hat, erri. How did mom like it? It's a beaut.

Thank you, yes she liked it
Steve asked me if she preferred the bow on the back and she liked the idea
It was a good suggestion

Baggers wrote:Hmmm...
Fedora, I didn't know that you were getting into ladies' haberdashery as well. That's kind of a neat look, almost like what Meryl Streep wore in "Out of Africa" but with a narrower brim. I might try to surprise my wife with one of those.

Cheers!

I can't remember Meryl Streep's hat in that film... i hve to give it another look. Wives can be only surprised with Steve

erri_wan wrote:I can't remember Meryl Streep's hat in that film... i hve to give it another look.

I should say *one* of the hats she wore in the film. I can't remember which scene, but there was a very wide brimmed, open crowned hat that she wore. Perhaps it was towards the beginning of the film, or when she took the supplies to her husband when he and the other men went off to fight the Germans in East Africa.

erri_wan wrote:Wives can be only surprised with Steve

Oh my! How things can get muddled when writing in a language other than one's own! That was priceless!

Cheers!
(still laughing...)

That hat finally is starting to get its "personality" as much as my mum wears it. I tried to take some outdoor pics of her wearing it but everytime there is something to stop me few days ago i forgot the compact memory.... yesterday it was the camera batteries... empty! :evil:
I'll try again tomorrow.
Steve made a wonderful job IMO

What's that bump above the bow?

VP wrote:What's that bump above the bow?

It's what you see

Why?

I'm seeing a dent there, VP. Not a bump.

Regards! Michaelson

The hat was open crown, and my mum likes to shape it sometimes... what's all this about a bump?

What the is a bump anyway?

Michaelson wrote:I'm seeing a dent there, VP. Not a bump.

Regards! Michaelson

Yeah ... 'cause you KNOW the bump is a dent, uh?!

Sorry - couldn't resist.



Erri: That's a very nice ladie's hat! And a great and gentle idea to let Steve make it for your mom.
Now your mom needs a Mark VII and a whip ... what do you think?

IndyJens wrote: Now your mom needs a Mark VII and a whip ... what do you think?

Actually she wanted to stay as far as she can from Indy-look

Too bad, too bad.

But we all know ... it starts with the hat. And then ...

eeri , does your mom were her hat open crown? Are we going to see her sporting that hat? and no jokes about me checking out eeri's mom.

jpenman wrote:and no jokes about me checking out eeri's mom.

Hey, you're the one that brought it up.

jpenman wrote:eeri , does your mom were her hat open crown? Are we going to see her sporting that hat? and no jokes about me checking out eeri's mom.

yes she ordered an open crown... well i ordered a lady hat to steve and he suggested me open crown and i said... ok

Sporting... i guess you're referring to pics where you see my mum wearing it... yes i'll try to take good ones as soon as we go out together in town. But for that i think you have to wait for the next week. Steve already has some pics of mum with the hat but they are indoor... not good enough for the adventurers of COW