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My Raiders hat

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:34 pm
by BendingOak
I finally got to finish myself a Raiders hat. Here it is.


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Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:37 am
by Ian
Looks awesome!!! Is that a Penamn? :lol:

I know it goes without saying, but aside from your hat making skills, your bashing is awesome! :) When I do mine or refine one, it always looks too 'neat' or deliberate. Yours look like they've always been there. I know it's experience etc, but still. :clap:

You say 'finally', you mean off your new block? Is your old one from the 360 video still alive and well? I always liked that one :)

Ian

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:46 am
by steerpike
hey! this IS the best! :clap: :clap: :clap:
The best Raiders I ever saw! I don't think it is possibile to achieve more accuracy to the hat of the movie.
I think this is a new and definitive benchmark!! :tup: :notworthy:

Steerpike

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:05 am
by Indiana Dymond
Good for you John.

I make and sell a lot of small StarWars prop parts,and I Very,Very rarely get to make or finnish anything for myself these days.

Bet you feel that you should have been doing a hat for a customer rather than yourself :lol: .

Great hat BTW

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:03 am
by tekors
Another beautiful lid from John...
I like the colour
:TOH:

My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:11 am
by djd
It's a great looking hat! The colour reminds me of the shade a couple of older ABs I've seen have gone. Very warm colour. Nice

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:50 am
by Bemo
Very nice John! I assume that's beaver and not rabbit?

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:07 am
by beaverlid
John,
Great looking fedora! I agree with Ian, your bashing skills are top notch. I have learned the hard way to not try and bash my own lids. I have that gray LC lid you made me that I think will get a rebash in this style. I am heading over to get on your waiting list right now for a reblock and bash.

Beaverlid

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:21 am
by Michaelson
I'm waiting for someone to try buying it off your head, like they did the grey last year. :lol:

Another beauty, John!

Regards! Michaelson

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:30 am
by Texan Scott
Very sharp, John!

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:53 am
by binkmeisterRick
Wait, you MADE that hat? :lol: Lookin' good, John!

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:55 am
by RaidersBash
WOW John!!! GREAT HAT!!! :clap:

That's the hat I've always wanted, and see just how far my reblocked Fed is from being what my minds eye sees as being THE hat...

this is it!

I've always known that your hat was what I was gonna purchaase when I have the funds, but that really seals it.

It that your plain rabbit?

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:59 am
by Texan Scott
I'd be willing to bet that it could be beaver?

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:27 am
by BendingOak
Ian,

the 360 or the stomping Raiders hat is alive and well. That hat in that video was made off of a block about 2 Raiders blocks back. I needed to be wearing a current one.

Nope I don't feel like I should have been working on a customers hat because I worked it on my free time and it was stretched over a long period of time. Most of the time I would find a hour where the wife and kid was off doing something and I would run down to the shop and work on this hat. Took months to make. Where it doesn't normally go that way.

I read Rabbit and Beaver. I think I wont answer that question just yet. Tell me why you think its a certain felt?

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:42 am
by Texan Scott
C'mon! Cough it up, Oakster. :P

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:49 am
by Michaelson
I vote rabbit, but only because it's your own special blend. You've spoken highly of it ever since you first got it...so why not make one for yourself out of the material.
That's MY logic on the question! ;)
Regards! Michaelson

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:01 am
by Texan Scott
I'm going to say it's beaver, due to the color, the way the felt creases/bashes, and thinness of the felt. Also, John prefers beaver felt over rabbit, this much I know. ;) just a hunch. difficult to tell.

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:39 am
by Ian
I just can't tell, but I'll guess beaver due to the amount of rain that hat will see. :lol:

Ian

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:51 am
by Michaelson
Ooo. I hadn't thought of that, Ian. :-k

Regards! Micahelson

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:37 pm
by Gorak
I really like the "slouchiness" of the hat. Looks like it`s yours and only yours...though it kinda really is,huh? :oops:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:20 pm
by Bemo
I'll say beaver as well due to the rainfall in Portland, particularly heading into fall and winter.

Really looks great!

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:27 pm
by Bdgsi11
That's a great looking hat John! :TOH: I'd have to say that it is beaver material mainly for the same reasons as everyone else, but also because the felt looks very smooth, rich and soft.

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:33 pm
by Texan Scott
... :-k ...he does have a vintage borsalino on hand.... :-k

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:01 pm
by Ian
Texan Scott wrote:... :-k ...he does have a vintage borsalino on hand.... :-k
.. :-k To my knowledge, there is no recorded evidence of anyone being able to 'Whack' the rain in Portland, Borsalino or not. :lol:

Ian

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:13 pm
by Mitch LaRue
That's just a lovely, lovely hat John.

My sincerest compliments to you.

:TOH:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:33 pm
by Ohio Jones
Very nice hat John and the shape is AWESOME!

my vote on the felt is...uhmmm WOOL!!!!...wait....Alpaca!!!

Just kidding buddy....great work..its a chip off the new block!

Ohio

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:43 pm
by G-Roberts
That looks awesome! :TOH: Fantastic work as always. Super SA. I'm saying Rabbit because of the SA bash, only because I've "heard" that beaver takes a while to get the bash right and work it in though I don't know how true that is as I dont own one.
Graeme :whip:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:45 pm
by BendingOak
To many detectives and not enough people looking at the hat itself. It's beaver alright.my rabbit felt would do fine here in Oregon.


The bash took me two minutes to put in. I don't even think about it anymore when it comes to my hats. I never go for any one scene. I think it doesn't make much sense because over time when one handles the hat the crease changes.

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:52 pm
by Texan Scott
What do I win? :P

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:14 pm
by BendingOak
:TOH:


A free drink of old rasputin but you have to fly out here to get it.

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:18 pm
by Texan Scott
May take a raincheck on that one and the museum. :TOH:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 4:45 pm
by BendingOak
:lol:
Texan Scott wrote:May take a raincheck on that one and the museum. :TOH:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:51 pm
by fuzzjunk
Simply Stupendous!!! :notworthy: , nice work John!

That's exactly what I'm looking for in a Raiders hat, great detail!

-Scott

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:06 pm
by BendingOak
Ohio Jones wrote:Very nice hat John and the shape is AWESOME!

my vote on the felt is...uhmmm WOOL!!!!...wait....Alpaca!!!

Just kidding buddy....great work..its a chip off the new block!

Ohio


How did you know it's my new line of wool hats. :[ :lol:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:12 pm
by binkmeisterRick
I guess I shouldn't spill the beans on your papier mache line coming down the pike? :-$ :lol:

Re: My Raiders hat

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:21 pm
by Noah
Awesome Raiders hat John! Wonderful job as always! :clap: