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What do people think of this one that sideshow are offering?


http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=448 ... ium=online

What do you think?

You will find the opinions on the DP hats are not very flattering. Use the search function to check them out. Use keywords Dorfman Pacific wool felt

Jonsey, DON'T!

Better using a 100$ banknote to roll yourself a cigar and smoke it rather than buying a DP. Trust me.

And

Each handcrafted hat is made of the highest-quality material

Apart from the "highest-quality material" lie, could you gentlemen tell me why and how they can claim their hats are handmade??? I own a fur felt DP and on the brim it says "handmade"

i think i've seen this question answered before on another thread, of how they can claim something is handmade.

will have to look for it.

here it is....

maboot38 wrote:Things can be hand made and still made in a factory. Textile factories employ many people to make individual parts of the hats. For example, one person might cut all the hats by hand and hand them off to another who blocks and steams them by hand, and then another bashes them "by hand", then another sews the ribbons on by hand/sewing machine.

Depends on your interpretation of "hand made".

Ah, ok, I'm a jerk I suddenly remembered that I already asked that question, and the post you quoted was maboot's answer.

somebody slap me, please

Feel better now? ;-)

Restless Dreamer wrote:Jonsey, DON'T!

Better using a 100$ banknote to roll yourself a cigar and smoke it rather than buying a DP. Trust me.

And

Each handcrafted hat is made of the highest-quality material

Apart from the "highest-quality material" lie, could you gentlemen tell me why and how they can claim their hats are handmade??? I own a fur felt DP and on the brim it says "handmade"

That's not even the $100 one. That's the $40 wool piece.

I own the crushable wool too. I bought the fur felt for me, and that one for my father. man...horrible.

now I wonder: could the wool felt version somewhat be better than the fur felt? wool felt is so much easier to reshape, while the DP fur felt is stiff as a rock: impossible to reshape it correctly without a block.

Anyway, some time ago, someone posted a photo of a reblocked DP with fuller earth: that one was a nice hat, I swear

You know, i seen some DP hats and they are no more than costume hats or stuff like Hasbro Darth Vader or Optimus Prime helmet - it looks the part but far from real thing.
But i always like the look of that one, dunno why, but i like that look alot.

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Happy cracking,

Ryan

gsolideogloria wrote:If you haven't already, check out this site:

http://www.hallituskatu14.com/fedora/fedora.html

They recently updated the prices on various "real" fedoras. Last week I ordered a Fed IV (the basic one not the deluxe), with shipping from Australia it was $93. I spent time researching on this site before I made my purchase. I can't wait to get it!

Happy cracking,

Ryan

That website gets a lot of things wrong like the handmade/factary part
and a couple of other miner details but it's a good resource if looking
for an indy hat and are a noooooby.

Btw the christy's crown hight is 5 3/4" not 5 1/4" is says it on hornetshats.com
FAQ tab.

Ill be honest with you, i think it looks bloody awful. Theres lots of these heart breakingly poor hats on the market. they are found in fancy dress shops the world over and are not really a IJ hat. Save well my friend and get yourself kitted out with an Adventurebilt.

I had one. It would have been a fair starter hat on a tight budget, but I have owned crushable far superior to it. It looks nice in pictures, and from a distance. Otherwise, it's a limp piece of junk.

Restless Dreamer wrote: now I wonder: could the wool felt version somewhat be better than the fur felt? wool felt is so much easier to reshape, while the DP fur felt is stiff as a rock: impossible to reshape it correctly without a block.
Anyway, some time ago, someone posted a photo of a reblocked DP with fuller earth: that one was a nice hat, I swear

Trust a man who has tried, the DP wool felts are not easier to shape. The crushable won't hold any shape but the one it comes in, and those helmet-hard wools would have to be so soaked to reshape, it would ruin the hat.

The fur felts, while not accurate in the slightest, get a bum rap. They really aren't that bad by modern factory hat standards. And I've seen a few reshaped by hand into something a bit more respectable. You just need to break them in. A good wet-down will probably do the trick.

I also know of at least one that has survived some serious abuse.

I had one too but i shelved that piece of junk as soon as i got my PB custom

Chewbacca Jones wrote:The fur felts, while not accurate in the slightest, get a bum rap. They really aren't that bad by modern factory hat standards. And I've seen a few reshaped by hand into something a bit more respectable. You just need to break them in. A good wet-down will probably do the trick.

I also know of at least one that has survived some serious abuse.

I agree with you, Chewie. I remember seeing Minnesota Jones' fur felt DP some years ago and was pleasantly surprised by it. Those are decent hats, even if they're not SA. I remember begging for one of them when they came out and never got one. I've still been tempted over the years to pick one up for the nostalgia of it.

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You can cross reference the DP fur felt discussion linked here.

Regards! Michaelson