(October 24, 2017 at 7:06 pm)A Theist Wrote:(October 23, 2017 at 10:22 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I don't understand. Do you actually alter the shape of the hat? How is that even possible? (I know nothing about hats or how they are made - or remade.)
Yes. It was completely altered and reworked from a Western style to a '40s era style fedora. I reshaped and resized the crown on a vintage wooden hat block similar to these...
That gives me the "Open Crown" shape I want and afterward I crease it. The brim will be cut to width and then I reshape that on a vintage wooden "brim flange" to give me the brim style I want. Afterward I sew in a new leather sweat band and ribbon.
Is it a wool hat? Do you have to wet it down in order to reshape it? What is the mechanism that allows you to reshape it and for the next shape to "stick"?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.