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And that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is the trajectory of the bullet as it passed through the skull...
That is an excellent point, fatwoul. All we need now is a screen accurate melon!
That is an excellent point, fatwoul. All we need now is a screen accurate melon!
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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.
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.
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I would vote for additional pressure on the right rearfatwoul wrote: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.Dostacos wrote:as a leading practitioner of phrenology I suspect you slept on only one side during your formative years
oh and I am not the usual practitioner of phrenology instead of reading bumps on the head I tend to CREATE them
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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 bone reshapes fast in children which we use to our advantage dailyfatwoul wrote:Yes. I sleep on my right side. I am suitably impressed.Dostacos wrote:I would vote for additional pressure on the right rear...
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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.
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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.
Regards,
Swindiana
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It's called a conformer, or conformator, according to the vintage Scientific Hatmaking book.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.
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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.
The Librarian
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.
The Librarian
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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.)Bufflehead Jones wrote:I just stood on my head and had Mrs. Bufflehead trace it.
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