Recent content by Darrell2688

I put the pencil curl in brim by hand tonight and added a little gold snowflake charm to the bow knot, here are a few photos of the hat with the pencil curl and one of my wife wearing the hat. I ordered a brim curling tool, I thought that it would be here by now, but it is tied up in LA right...

I made a hat for my wife, it is almost finished, I still need to put a pencil curl in the brim. The color of the felt is a tan, the satin liner is white, the hat band is 1 1/2" wide grosgrain ribbon in a wine color, the telescope crown is 4" high and the brim is 3 1/8" wide, the 2" wide leather...

Hi Rob, My wife said that you look good in that hat, I am glad that you are happy with the hat. My wife said that the Fedora is definitely your hat style, the dimenstional cut is a great cut to have in the brim shape. Let me know if I can make another hat for you. Thank you for your patience...

Hello Everyone, I have been away for a little while, I have been a little busy. I recently finished an Indian Jones Raiders style fedora in size 7 1/4" for a FedoraLounge member, I shipped the hat out yesterday and then in the afternoon I put two rabbit fur felt hat bodies on blocks, one is a...

I would be the person that put their fingers to close to the needle while sewing and sew my fingers to the felt, the only person with every finger wraped in a bandage.

Can you use a Stitching Awl, there is a stitch awl that will work with a sewing machine needle, I purchased one on Amazon and purchased the sewing machine needles that work with it. My trouble is I have not been able to sew with the darn thing, I always put the thread through the wrong loop in...

I have thought about trying my hand at sewing a brim binding onto one of my hats, I would have to work my way through swirling the binding first and then sew it into place by hand, my wife's Singer doesn't have a guide on the sewing machine and I have tried to use the sewing machine and I can't...

Could the double sided 3M tape be a problem? Is it possible that the tape created the scalloped edges that were created while you were sewing the binding in place? The 3M tape would work when sewing leather pieces together, however the felt is soft and ribbon, the tape between the two pieces...

I think that you will be happier if you use a polyester thread for hat work. The stitching looks ok, better than I can do, but I don't do brim binding, all of my sewing is by hand. Did you swirl the ribbon that you used for your brim binding? The swirling is the trick and a challenge. I am sure...

Well I tried the weathering using the Fullers Earth and I have to tell you, that I won't be weathering any more hats using that method. I don't know about the peanut butter idea, maybe using some fractionated coconut oil on the brim and around the top and bottom edges of the hat band would work...

Thank you Captain Rob, I really appreciate your business, I am happy to see that you like your new hat, maybe I will get to make you another hat. You can contact me here or send me an email. Darrell

I don't know about this hat style, it looks like it has been bashed with a lot of tight pinches then a torch was used on the flat brim and the tight pinch areas, then given the Fuller's Earth treatment.

I added a little more weathering to the Indy fedora today, this time I covered the hat as much as I could with the Fuller's Earth, I used the gray color Fuller's Earth, maybe I should add some white or brown to the hat?

I did a little weathering on the Indiana Jones hat, it is just lightly weathered. Should I redo the work and give the hat some more or heavy weathering

Are you going to make any changes or put that hat out for sale? It looks like the bow ends are a little tattered?