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Stitch Awl Tutorial - Sweatband Installation
Just look for needles with fat shanks and a groove and eye sufficiently large for button or upholstery thread. These Pfaff #130 denim needles work fine with upholstery thread. And if you wax your thread first with a candle stub or piece of beeswax, it's easier to keep the stitches...- Bob Smalser
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Catalena Hatters Rebuild Service
http://www.catalenahats.com/restoration.html For 80 bucks that includes shipping and a heavy-duty, fitted hatbox, you get a brand spanking new hat in 6-8 weeks. Save the tags if you want it to retain its original identity, because they strip and remanufacture on an assembly line. They will...- Bob Smalser
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
And another seller playing a fine game of Let's Hide the Hat from Bidders.- Bob Smalser
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
For that price, if it's too crispy I'll strip it for parts to restore another. If too small for an adult male, it probably isn't for an adult female. I'll stretch it as required and give it to one of the gals who make my coffee at the local country store. I know wife Betty won't want it...- Bob Smalser
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Dobbs 20. Probably excellent. $11.93 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=220394480546- Bob Smalser
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1930's teardrop fedora worn in 1909
Amazon.com's participating booksellers have used reprints of the 1902 and 1927 Sears catalogs for not much more than the price of the postage. The hats in the lead photo clearly reflect 1927 fashions as opposed to 1902 fashions, where you'll see a lot of derbies, curled brims and narrow pinches...- Bob Smalser
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A modern straw Stratoliner from Miller Hats???
It's a terrific look. Do y'all think the brim can be bound at all without the stitches weakening it to the point where it would shorten the life of the hat?- Bob Smalser
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
Sure. Just insure the new cord is adequately anchored on the plug side of the wire nuts. I've never worked on a hat stretcher per se, but I strongly suspect the heating element is a resistance coil just like on your home clothes drier. That means current can flow through it in either...- Bob Smalser
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HAT ADORNMENTS: ribbons, bows, pins, pugs, leather, etc.
Most fabric stores like JoAnn's have fancy pewter buttons on a rack somewhere.- Bob Smalser
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Stitch Awl Tutorial - Sweatband Installation
Look at the pounce wheel in the tutorial I posted. Spacing stitches what it does, and masking tape can be used as a batten or flexible straight edge.- Bob Smalser
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Stitch Awl Tutorial - Sweatband Installation
These Speedy Stitchers are common and inexpensive on eBay, too. But they were originally a farmer's tool to repair harnesses, and to this day are designed for leather. They generally come with needles and thread far heavier than required for hats. Brad's tip of heavy sewing machine needles...- Bob Smalser
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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest
The buyer is also from Finland, looking at his feedback, and probably knows exactly what he's doing. For example, if you've ever wanted a fine, vintage English shotgun.....now is the time to import one. ;)- Bob Smalser
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The Other Open Roads.....
And my point is there are more than enough nice old Resistols out there for me to steal and still give the "I'm new, hatless, and need to pinch pennies" members here less costly advice than dropping the better part of a C-note on a new Akubra. ;)- Bob Smalser
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The Other Open Roads.....
Oh, I don't think my advice will put a dent in Akubra sales, and helping some youngster with 50 bucks to spend instead of a hundred isn't a bad thing. My carpenter would certainly approve. ;)- Bob Smalser
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The Other Open Roads.....
I routinely remove the lining for cleaning and so I can better get at the sweatband to treat it with Peccard's Antique Leather Dressing and let that soak in for a few days. Linings I gently hand wash in Woolite, hang to drip dry without wringing and carefully iron on the rayon setting. To...- Bob Smalser
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The Other Open Roads.....
There are also other steals out there to be had in Resistol: $22.01 yesterday for what looks to be a perfect, 50’s-vintage 3X 7 ¼ with original box: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=300304210042 Beats the dickens out of paying three or four times...- Bob Smalser
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HAT ADORNMENTS: ribbons, bows, pins, pugs, leather, etc.
Not exactly pins, but wind trolley buttons. ;)- Bob Smalser
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The Other Open Roads.....
Great buy. I just paid 3 times that to get one on the previous page in Carhartt Brown.- Bob Smalser
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