Dear S,
You guessed exactly right, vibrations during shipping put what we call a 'packing mark' around the hat. Some counter clockwise brushing, or some steam and brushing together, or just time and some rain... will resettle the nap.
We put a care video up on Youtube that shows one...
I think it would be better to just cut the back off of a full brim fur felt!
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We sell a driver's cap made by Jacaru in Australia of thin and strong Kangaroo leather that has been quite popular:
I just wrote Adam Savage, he has indeed worn the Akubra Bushman on Mythbusters, we'd sold him two in the past.
Perhaps the Drover before that, our records don't go back that far, but he wore a Drover before the Bushman and is now onto a custom hat from Knudsen in Pleasant Hills near where...
Scientific Hat Finishing and Renovating, by Henry L Ermatinger
"a complete and profusely illustrated course of instruction, enabling the novice to acquire the art of finishing and remodeling hats of all varieties according to tested and approved methods (1919)"
is a great reference for...
Ouch. Too often low prices advertised by low-balling, goal-hanging website storefronts hide costly basic-service shortcuts:
Is the hat shown stocked? Can it be returned economically should there be a problem?
In my view Akubra cannot survive as a cut-rate discount brand. The quality...
You might find this video on shaping a cowboy hat with steam useful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PaRu9RDoY
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http://akubra-usa.com/
http://davidmorgan.com/
Looking past the rank dishonesty, the silly thing about encouraging a supplier to lie about whether a hat is a gift/ sample or not is that there is no duty on fur felt hats coming into the US from Australia:
Tarrif code 65059004
Brief Description Hats and headgear of fur felt made from hat...
In their catalog Akubra classifies their styles as Country, Western, Fashion and Straw. When describing the styles to dealers I refer to the "Country" hats such as the Snowy River, Cattleman etc... as Outback hats, Fair Dinkum!
Thank you very much kind sir, we got ours today! I do believe we'll be doing a good deal less band block swinging around here...
Will
http://davidmorgan.com/
There is jaunty, and then there is cattywhampus!
I've noticed that I tilt my hat back when I go into a store and want to appear friendly and polite without actually taking my hat off.
Howdy Y'all.
Please pardon the lassoing this here thread, but it seems on topic, we just got a new Akubra style into stock, the "Burke and Wills".
Akubra does well in the US cattle / agricultural / horse market with the Boss, the Kiandra, the Snowy etc.. as crossover western shapes...
Jordan thanks much for the additional info, that gave me what I need to know!
I would like to order one. I can do paypal which costs the receiver a bit i believe, or check, or money order...
Ever the optimist, but trying to protect your position and the community too by making the terms...
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