Recent content by chippy

cheers thanks for the reply and offer, much appreciated ..pm sent

gorgeous hat, just what i am after..you should write in the heading restricted to just USA buyers though...its cruel to have to waste my time drooling ;)

That Sir, is, a cool looking hat!

I havn't got one but i have similar hats, they are good, they feel a little coarse/plastically compared to plain straw but durable with nice ventilation. interesting name they have chosen for their company! Wallaroo happens to be the name of a town just north of Adelaide, not a bad fishing spot...

actually its quite common to have the pug like that, here, if fashioned like the Aussie slouch hat. no doubt the Akubra hat company made use of the well known (to Australians only i expect?) Kokoda name that has a lot of history behind it, and fashioned a country style hat with aspects of the...

Sir, you have got the oldest hat store in the world! the same people that created the coke (bowler/derby)hat, famous for serving some royals and the cast and crew of the recent Sherlock Holmes movie ..Lock & Co as a side note they still send out catalogues, as i can attest to having just...

but they have the world series baseball and someone from the USA always wins it too!!:p :)

it not PC for them to do so now ,besides many females wear G-strings and mini skirts now so are discouraged (i suspect by authorities and insurance companies) :D --too many traffic accidents occur already without curtsying causing more :eek: :eek: lol lol i guess etiquette is different in...

a distinctive hat for the summer Bob, most interesting materials used in the band as well...i had seen some incrediable bands at the expensive Montecristi web site that range from multi hundreds to multi thousands of dollars, which got me to thinking of different materials and designs for my own...

Mr Lots of Numbers, all the hats you choose to show look brilliant, you really have an eye for choosing them, or it may be that any hat of that shape just suits you fine!..either way i think you should send me some hats, i think whatever you choose would look good on me too :D :D you could start...

if you wanted to do it on a machine, possibly the oval could be cut with a band saw or depending on the size maybe a jig saw first, then sanding the edges to a smooth oval, then using a spindle moulder machine would probably work to place the curve on the outside edge. your home router is...

i tend to go along with you, ...but... it would seem Lock & Co do make a distinction between them..in my correspondence to them this came up as well as they do in fact sell a Fedora to, their Chelsea model hat, 2 1/2" brim 4 1/2 to 5" crown, larger shaped... As i understood it the...

that got me to wondering if those lead filled conforming ,plastic bending rulers (i.e. Trueflex)that hold their shape would work for the same type of job; for tracing the shape of your head...not that you would need to use it for an exact measurement, but it would seem to be alright to get the shape

yeah i noticed that as well, i figured it must just be a case of "I say tomartoe, you say tamaito" type thing perhaps in Lock & Co eye's it is in fact, technically a trilby, but to R Downey Jr , internet folk and Americans in general they like the sound of calling it a Fedora better [huh]

hehe (i got a different track), i was thinking , with all the palm leaves and colour flora in the background a linen jacket or dark jacket over white shirt and a panama hat would do the trick..come to think of it, it would fit right in with the current tropical shirt too !! :) add in a nice...