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  1. Ianthepilot

    Sterkowski hats...opinions/experiences wanted please

    The wait period certainly wasn't that long for me, though the way they handle caps might be different than how they handle their felts. Would help if they kept in contact with their clients a bit better, I just got one email between it being shipped and arriving. Tmal, I wouldn't worry about the...
  2. Ianthepilot

    Sterkowski hats...opinions/experiences wanted please

    Ingineer, It's good to hear that these polish numbers hold up over time. I have to agree about the crown shape, it doesn't have the boldness of a nice hand bash, but I'm hoping after one rainstorm too many I'll have to do something about it whether I want to or not. Dream of Gilgamesh, if you're...
  3. Ianthepilot

    Sterkowski hats...opinions/experiences wanted please

    A not so little write up about Sterkowski's fur felts. I picked up a grey fur felt number by Sterkowski not too long ago. I know there isn’t too much information about these hats available online and that’s actually a part of what drove me to make an order. Some folks over on the New Hat thread...
  4. Ianthepilot

    Post New Hats Here!

    Here's something I picked up at least partially because I couldn't find anything on it here on the lounge. It's a fur felt number by Sterkowski, little hat making company in Warsaw. Thinking I'll write up a fleshed out review about this hat since there isn't much available online, post...
  5. Ianthepilot

    The general decline in standards today

    I agree with Edward on that one. I don't know if people have ever had so much of a choice in how they lived their lives as they do now, at least in theory when it's harder to practice due to the economic mess we're in. I think that the main problem nowadays is that there's very little moral...
  7. Ianthepilot

    Hurricane Irene Safety Concerns

    Not entirely certain how hard we're going to be hit out here in north-central Massachusetts, but the family's been storing anything less than eighty pounds in the house or the garage. Don't know if all that effort was necessary, but we'll see.
  8. Ianthepilot

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    Thanks for the advice, Egghead! I tried getting the shape I wanted by hand, but after I read your post and I spent a bit more time looking at fedoras here at the Lounge, I went and attacked the brim with the steam iron, and this is what I got. I ironed the brim so that it was just about...
  9. Ianthepilot

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    In the end, I am considering making fedoras and other hats as a hobby, as well as wearing them. I might try to track down some open crown and bashed crown blocks, at least in my own size, but I've also got some family members who are possibly competent enough to fabricate the blocks, so I'm...
  10. Ianthepilot

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Thanks alanfgag, I was finally able to figure out what was going wrong. I wasn't unclicking the box mentioned, and I was including the wrong URL. Now I should be able to put the pictures up in my posts properly. Now I just need to figure out why in-house links from thread to thread always...
  11. Ianthepilot

    Fedora Lounge Impact

    They do. I was one of them until only half a week ago. When a person runs a search on google about almost anything pertaining to the golden era, fedoras especially, they are going to start finding links to the Lounge at one point or another. If this place has made an impact, I'd say that...
  13. Ianthepilot

    The general decline in standards today

    Statistics can be misread so easily, and there is so many variables that you just can't account for, so looking at crime rates won't really get you anywhere fast. I do agree with Lizzie Maine about decline, though. I think that as a culture, everything's become so globalized and sensationalized...
  14. Ianthepilot

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    A block would certainly have done me a lot of good forming the crown. As it is, I took the hat in it's heavily abused state, stuffed as much newspaper into the crown as possible to give it a somewhat workable shape, cooked it, and I did a rudimentary bash just after that. I further defined the...
  15. Ianthepilot

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    Thank you for the support! I agree about the personal nature of the bash. I am indeed trying to go for something closer to a 'C' crown style, albeit a very rounded one. If the hat had a higher crown when I found it, I could have chosen something different like a lengthwise crease, but I couldn't...
  16. Ianthepilot

    Making a fedora, criticism is wanted

    Hello everyone, Ian here. I've always been a big fan of the fedora, but living in the middle of nowhere and not trusting internet stores has made it impossible to get one anywhere, so the funny notion of making one myself got wedged into my head. I actually started working when I found the...
  17. Ianthepilot

    Ask a question, get an answer

    It looks like I can still put hyperlinks into the posts. It isn't nearly as streamlined as I would like, but it works(?), and hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to get things working properly, or get some assistance. Thank you, Wiser Hatter.
  19. Ianthepilot

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I'm trying to make a thread with pictures of my project, but for some reason the url of my image sharing site isn't being accepted. Is Flickr not compatible here? I can't even upload the photos I have from my computer directly, something about them being 'undefined'. Is there some way to get...
  20. Ianthepilot

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Thank you, Lefty! As long as stuff like what I'm doing is supported, I ought to have something up eventually somewhere.
  21. Ianthepilot

    Ask a question, get an answer

    'Evening all, I'm a new member here at the Lounge, so I wanted to make sure I'm not doing anything improper by making a specific kind of post. You see, I live out in the middle of nowhere and I've got no transportation of my own so I can't just go out and buy a nice hat, and I'm leery of...
  22. Ianthepilot

    The general decline in standards today

    I agree with Gregg and pretty much everyone who's posted that standards have went down because of upbringing. I'm just 19, but I like to think of myself as a 'reasonably good' individual. I take myself and what I do seriously, and although I'm not the epitome of manners and professionalism, I'm...
  23. Ianthepilot

    Where did your user name come from??

    Ianthepilot is exactly what it sounds like. Ian the pilot. I love aviation, and I was/am intending to become a pilot.

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