Recent content by Darrell2688

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?

I finished another Raiders hat a little over a week ago and I am thinking about giving it the weathered look using Fullers Earth. I made this hat with a turned down front brim, a slight turn up on the sides and almost flat in the back. The front crown pinch is 4 5/8" high the back of the crown...

I say go for it, see what you can do. I had an old beaten up chocolate brown fedora that was in pretty bad shape. I posted it for sale and it sold in 5 days and I contacted the buyer a month after the sale and ask him if he was happy with the hat, he told me that it was his favorite hat that he...

The information that I found about the Rit dye was located on the Internet and the instructions suggested using a cup of salt in the Rit dye mixture for rayon and for cotton you use vinegar, so I would have to use a little on each since the ribbon rayon cotton blend and keep the heat down to...

Thank you I will do a bit of reading, I didn't know that there were other ingredients needed to use the dye. I recently found out that if you are using Rit dye you have to use salt in the mixture for Rayon fabric with the water temperature of 120 degrees, close to a rolling boil for 10 minutes...

Hi Captain Rob, I drove to Walton Ky this moring and dropped your hat off at 8:30 when the post office opened, I have already started tracking the package and you should have your new hat on the 8th. according to the tracking information that was posted, I selected notice by text message so I...

Thank you. Timelesstrims is where I have purchased all of my ribbon and the ribbon that I am looking for is Brown 3, I purchased the last few yards that she had on hand. It is a dark brown almost a black, she use to have a brown that she had labeled as F, but she sold out of that too. My next...

I checked out WalshDesigns3D on Etsy and from what I can see , this Etsy shop should do great on sales, I looked at a hat block that is offered for sale the shape makes me think of the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom fedora shape with the shipping cost, I am guessing that the total would be around...

I just ordered 2 bottles of Jacquard Procion Fiber Reactive powder dye, 1 is chocolate brown and the other jet black, I will use the dyes on some white grosgrain ribbon, I just have to figure out a proper mix of the 2 to get the color that I want. I tried to find the dye at a local store, but...

Has anyone ever tried to dye Grosgrain Ribbon rayon cotton blend? I have been checking out the idea of dyeing the ribbon and the best way that I have found so far is to use fibre reactive dye, and the combination that might work would be brown dye with a touch of black dye, this might be a...

I made my first hat blocks using 2 x 8, I cut the layers in an oval shape making a guess about what the block should look like after I finished it. I ran into a problem, the wood wasn't smooth enough so I had to apply a couple coats of autobody filler and then sand. Looking back on that Idea and...

Hello Fedora Fans. I finished another Indiana Jones Fedora and posted it on Ebay and Etsy, so far everything has sold on Ebay so I have to ask myself. Should I even use my shop on Etsy, BustedHats? So far I have made all of the Indy Raiders Fedora hats look a like, there are a few small changes...

Thanks Everyone, I really appreciate the positive response. I guess it is time to make another hat. I am slowly improving, and I continue to get help from a couple of members here at The Fedora Lounge. I like working with people that ask me to make a hat for them, I always learn something in...

It has been a while since I have posted a finished hat, the Indy style fedora sold four days after posting it on Ebay, the hat has been delivered to the person that purchased the hat. I finished work on a Millinery Warehouse steel gray rabbit fir felt yesterday. This hat is a size 7 1/4" the...