Experiment

[kiltie]

Dunno if anybody's tried this:

My hat is not creased on "the turn", however, I was messing around a bit ago and hit on an idea. Rather than steaming out the brim and starting from scratch, I sprayed down the entire rear half of the brim with cold water in an atomizer, then set the hat on my head a full inch and a half off plumb. The tension was HIGHLY exagerated, but ten I carefully lifted the lid using the pinch. About half of the initial "waviness" was left and now she's drying on the bathroom counter upside down to counter the moistened weight of the brim. It seems like a good way to preserve the natural oval of the block and still get "the look". That way, if I (you) ever want to change the look, you don't have to steam out the brim or fight a hat blocked or otherwise shaped on "the turn". Anybody tried this? I'll be back with pictures in about an hour and a half.

[kiltie]

Does anyone else find it absurdly difficult to get a good head-on picture of yourself when you're trying to illustrate a point about your hat? these are culled from about 11,000,000 pictures I took, and they STILL don't really show off how well it turned out. Had to resort to the OTHER dummy's head. Oh well, here you go: successful experiment, miserable failure, or just "eh..." - you decide.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj29 ... IM2062.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj29 ... IM2070.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj29 ... IM2055.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj29 ... IM2058.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj29 ... IM2072.jpg

Natural and artificial light - there didn't seem to be much difference in presentation outside of the fact that, "my, doesn't that hat come in a wide variety of colors! Is that irradesant?"

Thanks for looking.

[Piker]

Looks like you got it!

[kiltie]

Thanks Piker and A_C ! A_C, yours looks awfully nice in the pics you posted over on the "discussion" regarding Philipines' new Adventurer.