Club Obi Wan

you guys remember the older indy hats at disneyland when they were soft and now they are hard as a rock. this is what i did to my old one to make it look more like the raiders fedora
before
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff32 ... G_0317.jpg

After
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff32 ... G_1955.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff32 ... G_1956.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff32 ... G_1957.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff32 ... G_1961.jpg

I think it looks alot better. Thats a pretty good job you did on that old DP.

Dave

thx all i really did was spray it with water and hold it with my hands to the shape i want and then used a blowdryer. so then it dried and it was done after i threw dust on it from around the house to make it look more worn still finding more dust to throw on it

nice man

indyfan, every time I see your avatar, I think your heading is floating in mid air.

Dave

haha thats funny. its a pic of me taking a pic of me in my full indy gear and just cropped my face

your phone is blockin your body lol

haha i just noticed i shall make a new one (eventually)

Looking great! Diggin that skechers box.

Not bad at all. Kind of looks like the one I did as well. Now just replace the ribbon and you'll have a good beater hat.

i'm wondering about reshaping my dorfman , it is still pretty stiff from getting it a year ago --- when i first got it i tweaked the front pinch and it came out much better than when it came to me. but i would eventually like to change the back of the hat to give it a better raiders bash ---- should i wet the whole hat down or just spray it abit ? any help would would be a of great service .here is my hat so far
after new ribbon on


before with old ribbon

The problem with the DPs is that they don't have the block shape to support a Raiders crease. If its the fur DP, you might be able to reblock it and get it looking close enough. If its wool...well, I don't know what to tell you. It does look a lot better with the ribbon change, though, thats for sure.

Dave

yeah i just didnt like the brownish ribbon on it , so i had the ribbon put on by a hat company here in chicago , optimo hats and it cam out fabulous , i had my grandfather old hat which i tried to do a raiders bash on since it was older and a littl bit "flexible ' i had done the ribbon myself and it came out ok , heres what it looks like but it didnt get the height i wanted on the crown

Ouch. It may be time to move on to an Akubra at the point. I do believe that hat has seen it's last days as an Indy hat.

the after pics are superb...i tried rebashing my DP as well but it didn't go so well....crown is a little uneven but it came out to look like a LC Bash a little

my granpas old hat has seen better days ---- my dorfman still kinda reminds me of the temple of doom style used on the movie poster where its says trust him

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wow, heckova job man, it's a wonder why they (Dorfman/disney) don't wise up and redo their manufacturing process. You obviously know how it is, felt stretches but maintains it's integrity, how they don't get how to make a stovepipe raiders/crusade/skull style is baffling....maybe steve and marc can put some insight into that. But beside the point, that redo is #### good

i went to disney for the first time last year at the age of 28, and unfortunatly my son was unable to come along ... so i got him a hat from there. At the age of 9 he got his first Indy hat, it wasn't perfect as we all know ...but if i had gotten a hat like that when i was 9 (i was 15 when they started the Indy ride ) i'm pretty sure i would not have complained and i figure my face would have lit up like my boys did.
(i got tears in my eyes thinkin about it)

That's so cool, we're going to disney in a few weeks with my baby nephew and his parents thinks he probably won't remember it, but for us I hope it's near as good as the feelings your son had upon getting that hat...

i hope so too ... i want to take the boy as soon as i can afford it\, them canadian dollar is up again that will help