I’m looking for a hat. No, I’m looking for MY hat.
I have a lot of ball caps “dad hats” and they’re fine. I have a decent rabbit fur fedora of the Indy type. I have an Akubra Australian hat.
I wear my desert storm era Bonnie hat mowing and such. I like the coverage and style. But I’d like something a bit more formal, wide brim, not chocolate chip camo, proper felt (ideally Beaver so it doesn’t shrink like the Indy hat did) as “my” hat.
looking on the Stetson website I see some outdoor hats that are looking good to me, but they’re the “crushable” wool felt I don’t care for. The Akrubra is like cardboard and no hope of altering the shape. Not without a hatter anyway.
I’m fortunate there is a hatter in New Haven. I need to pay a visit. But I’m looking at used vintage cowboy hats (Stetson, reaistol and others) in my size to maybe clean, Re block, re-bash and perhaps a brim trim and make the hat I want. For the price of a new low-end Stetson I can get a high-end one and just make the shape how I like.
Anyway, if anyone has a hat they like and wants to post a photo maybe I can find something “off the rack” that I like. The Stetson “gun club” is not bad. Brim is a bit narrow- it looks great but I think more coverage is needed. Maybe that bash with a wider brim is the hot ticket…
Re-engineering a hat will not be cheap but on the other hand I’m trying to make MY hat, and if it ends up being a one-off no one else can buy, that’s not such a bad thing either. A new beaver felt hat will be more expensive than recycling ann old one and added labor.
I have a lot of ball caps “dad hats” and they’re fine. I have a decent rabbit fur fedora of the Indy type. I have an Akubra Australian hat.
I wear my desert storm era Bonnie hat mowing and such. I like the coverage and style. But I’d like something a bit more formal, wide brim, not chocolate chip camo, proper felt (ideally Beaver so it doesn’t shrink like the Indy hat did) as “my” hat.
looking on the Stetson website I see some outdoor hats that are looking good to me, but they’re the “crushable” wool felt I don’t care for. The Akrubra is like cardboard and no hope of altering the shape. Not without a hatter anyway.
I’m fortunate there is a hatter in New Haven. I need to pay a visit. But I’m looking at used vintage cowboy hats (Stetson, reaistol and others) in my size to maybe clean, Re block, re-bash and perhaps a brim trim and make the hat I want. For the price of a new low-end Stetson I can get a high-end one and just make the shape how I like.
Anyway, if anyone has a hat they like and wants to post a photo maybe I can find something “off the rack” that I like. The Stetson “gun club” is not bad. Brim is a bit narrow- it looks great but I think more coverage is needed. Maybe that bash with a wider brim is the hot ticket…
Re-engineering a hat will not be cheap but on the other hand I’m trying to make MY hat, and if it ends up being a one-off no one else can buy, that’s not such a bad thing either. A new beaver felt hat will be more expensive than recycling ann old one and added labor.
