Is this still an accurate flow-chart of how it's made?

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Is this still an accurate flow-chart of how it's made?

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Knowing absolutely NOTHING about how a fur-felt hat is made, I looked around online and found a few articles. One was accompanied by a photo that shows the various stages of a fur-felt hat.

Is this still an accurate idea of how it starts and finishes?

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Yep! :wink:
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That's very interesting.
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Post by jbbowers »

Here's a little bit larger photo of three of the steps. These are all undyed rabbit:

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And here are two pics of Winchester felt beaver hoods along the same process that JW Hats had when I went down and spent the day with them to get some hatting tips. Tough to tell the difference between the rabbit and beaver felt until the felt gets shrunk down.

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A young son of one of his customers unfortunately put some holes in it when left unattended but man was it soft as a cloud.

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And the same size cone shrunk down with hot water and some rolling and compressing action at the factory...
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Post by binkmeisterRick »

Now you know why a hat wants to taper. That cone is its natural shape! :wink:
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Post by mountainman »

Bink is right, a felt hat starts as a cone and heads back that way as soon as it starts being worn. How soon? Well that depends...
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Post by Kokopelli »

jbbowers wrote: These are all undyed rabbit:


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:shock: Undyed Rabbits?! Zombies?! Oh...wait...un dyed -ok, nevermind.
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Post by alanseijas »

WHAT???? :shock: WAIT!!!!! :shock: The rabbit is actually not ... alive ... and on MY head?????????
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"Uh... what's up, Doc Jones?" :lol:
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Post by darthbish »

HEY!!....That shrunk cone looks like what I get when I clean the air filter on my clothes dryer :shock:
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Post by binkmeisterRick »

Well, what are you waiting for? Make a hat out of it! I wonder is static cling would be a problem with that hat... :lol:
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That's neat. Thanks for sharing. I was curious about this stuff but never thought of asking

:lol: Fink, that was to good!
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Post by Indiana G »

binkmeisterRick wrote:Now you know why a hat wants to taper. That cone is its natural shape! :wink:
and in the case of HJ.....its finished shape as well......SLAMMO!

couldn't resist.....S-A-B....i hate these guys!!!! :lol:
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Post by binkmeisterRick »

WhipDude wrote: :lol: Fink, that was to good!
WHo are you calling a fink? :whip: :lol:

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