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Good point, actually. I just saw a pic of Ford wearing the Indy IV hat which is not turned, and it looked like it had a Raiders type warped brim. Maybe, Ford just has a Kattywampus Melon and the brim warps beautifully whenever he plops a fedora on his coconut.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is the trajectory of the bullet as it passed through the skull... :lol:

That is an excellent point, fatwoul. All we need now is a screen accurate melon! :wink:
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I know that I don't have a screen accurate melon and no amount of turning seems to help, really. I know that my coconut is square. Yes, that is right. Buff is a blockhead.

I found this out when I bought one of those Atlanta Braves baseball caps that are sized and not the ones that are one size fits most. I bought one in my size, but the brim would cut into the corners of my forehead even though it was not tight anywhere else on the head. It was like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

I had to buy one a size larger, to keep from getting a headache almost immediately when putting it on. The larger one, doesn't put the pressure on the corners of my forehead to cause it to hurt.

Now, if I could just find a cinder block in my size, I wouldn't need to buy a hat block for my fedoras. :shock: #-o
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Bufflehead Jones wrote: Yes, that is right. Buff is a blockhead.
Admittance is the first step toward a cure.
Or as Bink recommended to me when trying to sell his panama hat " you could use a block sander"
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fatwoul wrote:
binkmeisterRick wrote:That is an excellent point, fatwoul. All we need now is a screen accurate melon! :wink:
Did Erin post in here somewhere? I thought it was me who was invisible. 8)
I have no idea what you're talking about, fatwoul. 8)
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But if Ford's head created the Radiers swoop, what about the other two movies?
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yes....but what i like about the turned hat is that you can see your pretty ribbon more when looking at your reflection....i like my ribbon.... :? :)
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So turn your hat sideways so everyone can see your pretty little bow.
i tried that....someone handed me a metal triangle and told me to clang on it when supper was ready....and they kept calling me 'cookey' :lol:
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I too "suffer" from warped head syndrome. It's most noticeable with a ballcap, but I just noticed you can see it in my picture in the "Photos of you in your gear" section. :)

Kind of amusing.

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:shock: uh Fatwoul, now your meetings aren't secret anymore. :roll:
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fatwoul wrote:
binkmeisterRick wrote:That is an excellent point, fatwoul. All we need now is a screen accurate melon! :wink:
Did Erin post in here somewhere? I thought it was me who was invisible. 8)

It must have been my doppelganger... :shock:
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:roll: flower arranging huh, I coulda swore .........
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fatwoul wrote:
Indycop wrote::roll: flower arranging huh, I coulda swore .........
Swearing isn't allowed! You can't even say ****.


:twisted: fatwoul! Quick get out! This reply is coming from inside the house! :twisted: :shock:
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as a leading practitioner of phrenology :shock: I suspect you slept on only one side during your formative years \:D/
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:shock: :lol: phrenology! Is that like a center dent, c crown, or teardrop? :roll:
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yes
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:shock: :roll:
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fatwoul wrote:
Dostacos wrote:as a leading practitioner of phrenology :shock: I suspect you slept on only one side during your formative years \:D/
Interesting suggestion. And true. I still do sleep on the same side. I always have done. But the question is, can you tell which side I sleep on based on my head shape? There's my challenge to you for today. :D
I would vote for additional pressure on the right rear
oh and I am not the usual practitioner of phrenology instead of reading bumps on the head I tend to CREATE them :lol: :roll:
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I thought that was my job! :shock: #-o
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fatwoul wrote:
Dostacos wrote:I would vote for additional pressure on the right rear...
Yes. I sleep on my right side. I am suitably impressed.
I work in an children's orthopedic clinic {certified orthotist/prosthetist } so it was an educated guess, we don't treat the skull, but everything south :D bone reshapes fast in children which we use to our advantage daily :)
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I think I remeber Ford being a looong oval in head shape.

Not knowing if he got it sketched out for the movies or not, but while at Locke & Co's back in the London summit of 2004 we got to see some skull outlines of a few of their famous hat customers. (Mounted on the wall actually). I don't know or remember the word for the tool, but they had a spider-legged like thingy with 20 or so "arms" to place on the head that would make a small sketch of the skull contour. All this to make a bespoke hat in the end to exactly fit the customer. To get to the point, some of the contours were way off the oval shape you would expect on a human skull, and very few of them were very symmetrical at all.

I also think I remember them claiming that Ford popped in there to get his "Raiders" hat, though this of course was doupted and we believed it might have been for Blade Runner. Scandy, Al, Tim and Ken would have to back me up on this. ;)

Also, they used hair spray for stiffner. 8)

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Swindiana wrote:Not knowing if he got it sketched out for the movies or not, but while at Locke & Co's back in the London summit of 2004 we got to see some skull outlines of a few of their famous hat customers. (Mounted on the wall actually). I don't know or remember the word for the tool, but they had a spider-legged like thingy with 20 or so "arms" to place on the head that would make a small sketch of the skull contour. All this to make a bespoke hat in the end to exactly fit the customer. To get to the point, some of the contours were way off the oval shape you would expect on a human skull, and very few of them were very symmetrical at all.
It's called a conformer, or conformator, according to the vintage Scientific Hatmaking book. :wink:
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So fatwoul, how on earth did you get such an accurate map of your head? Did you use the above mentioned conformer, stick your head in a bowl of jello, or some other method some of the rest of us could apply?
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i have always known i was messed up in the head and this post just proves i am right. It is always nice to know i am not alone though. To all those out there that have whacked up heads...i salute you. :notworthy:
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and i though you did the head in the jello method....your way sounds better....guess i'll go wash my hair out now :( :lol: 8)
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I just stood on my head and had Mrs. Bufflehead trace it.
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binkmeisterRick wrote: It's called a conformer, or conformator, according to the vintage Scientific Hatmaking book. :wink:
Cone-former... Sounds logical enough. 8)

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[quote="fatwoul"]
Well, as a photographer, my method was a photographic one. I took a picture of the top of my head taken with a long lens (to minimise distortion).

I'm interested in trying this. Did you lay down and have the camera level with the center of your head? Or did you sit under the camera mounted on a tripod and aimed down at the top of your head?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Bufflehead Jones wrote:I just stood on my head and had Mrs. Bufflehead trace it.
pictures please :lol:
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Bufflehead Jones wrote:I just stood on my head and had Mrs. Bufflehead trace it.
Dang! Kind of wish I had that option. Could have saved myself a few $$$ and a major headache by not having to put my head through the wall a few times. (And yes, the first time I put my head through the wall it was face first.)
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OUCH! Poor wall! :wink:
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