Which bash leaves the most crown height?

[NukeMeSlowly]

I am trying to re-crease a Christy Malborough and could use some help maximizing its limited crown height to stop it from hitting the top of my head.

Starting with a hat with a relatively low crown (as I am), which crease/bash results in retaining the most crown height?

Shallow center dent? Teardrop? A variant? Or something else entirely?

Would it be crazy to leave it open crowned and just add some front dents?

Thanks in advance.

 

[RBH]

The teardrop or a diamond crease gives the best height.
As long as you do not crease it low on the crown.

 

[theinterchange]

Either the teardrop or diamond that RBH mentioned or a shallow center dent, but I'm going from memory to say a center dent wouldn't looks as good on the hat you've got.

Randy

::Edit::

A center dent would look good in that hat, I was thinking of another model

 

[AlterEgo]

I don't have a Marlborough (actually I do, but it's a thing I smoke) yet I am familiar with that Christys' model and know that it has a very short crown.

I'd recommend a teardrop, AKA pinched telescope, but a special kind: one in which the valley is very shallow--1/4 inch--and then punch up a dome in the middle so that it is level with the crown's top edge. Along with very shallow side dents, this bash will give you the maximum head clearance. You could just leave out the side dents, but that will give the hat a totally different look.

 

[Tone]

I am trying to re-crease a Christy Malborough and could use some help maximizing its limited crown height to stop it from hitting the top of my head.

Starting with a hat with a relatively low crown (as I am), which crease/bash results in retaining the most crown height?

Shallow center dent? Teardrop? A variant? Or something else entirely?

Would it be crazy to leave it open crowned and just add some front dents?

Thanks in advance.

For something like the Christy Marlborough, a shallow center dent will keep the most height of the overall finished pinch.

It sounds like you'd rather keep as much height on that hat - with no dent at all - on the already shorter crown so anything might work as long as it's done very minimally. Might just be a "press" rather than any actual crease for that one; an indentation more than an actual dent. Sort of what you see on most people's foldaways and travel trilbys.

But, specifically, a center dent will keep the most height on the overall hat when viewed from its side, etc. The defined teardrop and diamond bring a hat's entire crown down a bit on its profile overall.

Then there's the matter of where you want your front pinch to be on the finished crease... but for the Marlborough you most likely don't have too much choice there.