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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 4, 2011 19:11:14 GMT -5
I am working with a hatmaker on a Raiders fedora. I started this thread because I wanted to know which felt was closer in behavior to cury. Cury felt used for making hats was made from rabbit fur. It doesn't get any simpler than that. However, that does not mean it's the right felt for everyone to buy. It all depends on you intentions, expectations, and opinions about what the hat should look like and how it should last in the real world. I guess you were answering the generic questions I raised in the first part of my post. If so, your answers indicate that beaver would be the best choice, since it would hold up the best through daily wear and potentially wet conditions. I'm not sure which way you decided to go, but wanted to make sure you realized what your answers indicated. Ken
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Post by bendingoak on Nov 4, 2011 19:15:31 GMT -5
I am working with a hatmaker on a Raiders fedora. I started this thread because I wanted to know which felt was closer in behavior to cury. I have my answer now. Thank you for your answers. (probably shouldn't hane started it seeing as it caused an argument between 2 hatmakers) Ken-yes yes and no. deinonickus-please elaborate on your 'it'? Cury is a rabbit felt. There is no debate. You want rabbit. I never said different. I just said that the Raiders felt wasn't the greatest felt in the planet there ever was. Which is what has been going around for years and it's just not true. Gunslinger it has nothing to do with agreeing. You have implied that I'm dishonest and blamed it on not knowing what the word meant. I say bullcrap. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining. I drink with my friends. Us drinking together, not going to ever happen.
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Post by gunslinger on Nov 4, 2011 21:00:08 GMT -5
Mate I was just trying to be courteous.
You're so stuck on a word even though I've written hundreds since trying to clarify, but you just don't want to hear it. If I say something that I mean ~I'm not afraid to own it~; and I think anyone who has known me on the various Indy forums knows that. As soon as I realised you ~really~ seemed to have taken offense, I had no problem in admitting it or make an attempt at being ~reasonable~. But here, it seems to be a case of you just seeing a word, turn yourself to Defcon 1 and that's it.
On the flip side, you seem to think it's ok to throw around references to Photoshopping hats, saying the ribbons I used were crap, etc. and somehow think that ~that's~ ok. Come on.
So ~again~, I never tried to imply that you were being dishonest, and I've clarified that. I guess in retrospect, the connotation I was struggling to articulate was "biased". As in, what I said above about "it's all opinion", and as you say, "Your hat, your block, its a matter of opinion, not fact." So yes, you have your opinions. I have mine. But you also sell hats. Like Herbert Johnson sell hats. It seems you think yours are better, and I can absolutely understand you thinking that. You strive for perfection in a certain way that's important to you.
But there's always going to be bias in that - it's just being human - in the same way that you focus on some idea of "bettering" the hats, my focus has been to replicate a bunch of the flaws in the Raiders hat from the ribbon tacking, to the "lumpy" felt, to the sagging brim break (which could have easily been as a result of a costumer wetting down the hat to make it look well-worn, not a construction flaw by one of the world's top factory hatters, yes?
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Post by Ragingblues on Nov 4, 2011 21:09:02 GMT -5
This seems to be going nowhere now.... so on that note, I'm closing the thread down.
Ken
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