I have a splendid vintage coffee percolator/jug, however there seems to be no maker’s stamp. I want to restore it but don’t know whether the Bottom water reservoir unscrews? Ominously, there is a rattling sound coming from the reservoir and I’ve managed to shake several small pieces of what...
Do you long to switch to vaping but only in real style? A real pipe... with no giveaway button to press... just a vintage pipe and sip and vape? Not possible? Oh yes it is!
I had the same problem, puffing at some hefty piece of plastic/ metal plumbing didn’t fit well with my Borsalino fedora...
Oh YES GHT! An MG YA sedan if I’m not mistaken? With suicide front doors and the right wheels too - the sedans don’t look right with wire wheels.
What an ensemble, magnifique! My mid-life crisis was one of the very few genuine, original MGB GT V8 missiles. It was a ghastly bile yellow but went...
I’m a true vintage Borsalino man, for me there’s little to compare with a 1930 -1950’s Borsalino fedora. However, I needed an elegant summer hat, but found almost everything tediously ordinary and either wildly cheap or wildly expensive. I take a very large size making true vintage really rare...
very late commer to this most intreagueing thread. I've just aquired and posted this hat on my usual haunt - a Borsalino thread. I was told there that Tesi probably made it, which seems very likely.
I think I might try and reblock that sharp bash as I fear that otherwise it may crack...
My Borsalino
Thank you Tonio, it does look very likely that Tesi made it doesn't it. I've seen this Tesi made for Bencraft that looks very, very like my straw Borsalino
This is the Tesi Bencraft. I'm very tempted to ease out the sharp bash on mine as it can't be any good for the bacü straw...
I thought so Alan - it makes sense on a straw hat really. But I wonder why I can find no trace of this type of fine Borsalino Bakü - they do make a much heavier weave bakü fedora, but I find it very ordinary, not much of a Borsa' work of art.
Thank you moontheloon, but it's "spot the error" time... It's a cloth swearband! Silly me.
Do you think that this straw Borsalino is their summer version of a Brooklyn Chabad kneitsch? The Crown Heights Chabad-Lubavitch badge of office? It might be at that, but why not? I may be a Scottish...
Thank you RJR, do tell me, what do you use to treat a sweatband? I have various wonderful saddlemakers' leather potions. I suppose it's a matter of how dry and encrusted a band is? Saddlesoap is the old fallback I guess. I was more concerned about over creased straw and cracking.
In the...
What have I done? Will my marriage survive it? Have I gone mad? OK how mad?
I've just dived in and made a "buy it now" purchase on eBay.
Yes I probably did pay too much
But I like the look of it, I've had a close inspection and as far as I can see I don't think that the straw has...
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