I honestly thought the same thing but I got a hold of him last year and he told me about a type of felt velvet-like handmade paper and I'm on my quest to find it. because when I do I'll definitely be in business. I've been experimenting with other felts and some are more malleable than others...
All these pictures have been takin via my phone so not the best, but heres my semi finished fedora with my bow on it...I've only got to sew the inside lining of the fedora.
The lighting isn't the best they actually make the hats look lighter, but they actually are dark chocolate and in the creation process the fedora tends to get a little lighter
Thanks Guys
thanks guys that one is the trial one...actually i made another one also, but I think I just might start selling not 100% sure though now! But if so i was thinking of sellin them with various movie seen types or by just open crown like how regular fedoras are sold
Well right now I'll tell you my goal is to get it painted by a talented artist and to put real hair on him because it started when I made myself a felt fedora that was more screen accurate than the sculpted one..but first I'm going to make my indy bald..right now I've cut off all the molded hair...