bash that brim!
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:17 pm
all right. the raiders hat (what's that? 
) 
........most of the scenes, his hat is turned which will warp the brim to give you that nice raiders swoosh. alot of you will take out your brand new open crowned whatever, place it on your head and then turn it.....only to find a minor warp in the brim......nowhere near the proportions of the angled snap down brim as viewed from the right hand side and nowhere near the elegant transitioning curl on the bow side (reaching to the back of the hat where the brim is most prominently curled/flipped up. you can see what i'm talking about on either the raiders hat compilation or from the side views of my pecan hat in the "crowning achievement" thread of mine.
now for those of you that only get the slight warpage, you can steam in some more prominent transitions to get it to sit where you want it to sit. for me, i always do a raiders 'scrunch' which is strategically executed to accentuate the look of both sides as well as to soften up the felt and promote the floppiness. the scrunching that i do are all along the lines and creases of the bash and i do believe this is the way the raiders hat got sat on (at least once)....the way the center pinch lines up with the angled snap down of the right side brim, the way the back left of the hat curls up all align in this compaction......gotta be more than coincidence. here's a pic of what i mean:
anyways with this method, you do not promote any unsightly felt ripples or folds and this scrunching keeps the brim in the nice raiders look. bear in mind that this may not work on everybody so don't use it unless you know how your hat is going to react. i'm planning to sit on the hat in this orientation to bring out more of the SOC look.....but you also have to sit on the crown to mushroom it out
so....do not do this and then PM me that i ruined your hat. don't do this unless you are comfortable with your bashing skills and you want to promote an SA raiders brim......good luck
) ........most of the scenes, his hat is turned which will warp the brim to give you that nice raiders swoosh. alot of you will take out your brand new open crowned whatever, place it on your head and then turn it.....only to find a minor warp in the brim......nowhere near the proportions of the angled snap down brim as viewed from the right hand side and nowhere near the elegant transitioning curl on the bow side (reaching to the back of the hat where the brim is most prominently curled/flipped up. you can see what i'm talking about on either the raiders hat compilation or from the side views of my pecan hat in the "crowning achievement" thread of mine.now for those of you that only get the slight warpage, you can steam in some more prominent transitions to get it to sit where you want it to sit. for me, i always do a raiders 'scrunch' which is strategically executed to accentuate the look of both sides as well as to soften up the felt and promote the floppiness. the scrunching that i do are all along the lines and creases of the bash and i do believe this is the way the raiders hat got sat on (at least once)....the way the center pinch lines up with the angled snap down of the right side brim, the way the back left of the hat curls up all align in this compaction......gotta be more than coincidence. here's a pic of what i mean:
anyways with this method, you do not promote any unsightly felt ripples or folds and this scrunching keeps the brim in the nice raiders look. bear in mind that this may not work on everybody so don't use it unless you know how your hat is going to react. i'm planning to sit on the hat in this orientation to bring out more of the SOC look.....but you also have to sit on the crown to mushroom it out
so....do not do this and then PM me that i ruined your hat. don't do this unless you are comfortable with your bashing skills and you want to promote an SA raiders brim......good luck
to you, my friend!