bendingoak
Well-Known Member
I'm a fan of the SOC Raiders myself but held back from offering them because of a couple of reasons.
1st, I would hate sending out a hat that doesn't look new. It's just hard to swallow putting in a hat that looks old and beat up into a box to ship to someone.
2nd. with some people ( not many) not completely on top of their own head measurements, makes this a problem for the Vendor. IE: I make a hat and distress it to be SOC SA as possible and it is custom fitted order ( as all of my hats are). The person makes a mistake with measuring and has to send a hat back to be replaced. No problem normally because if it's a small adjustment I can take out the trimmings and cut a new sweatband and sew them in. It's work and I do it to make the customer happy or I can make a new hat for that customer and sell the original hat as is. Not that big of a deal but when it comes to a distressed hat like the SOC, thats another story.
3rd, to get the buckle effect ( right away) that everyone who likes the SOC hat I would need to use a light weight felt and it wouldn't hold up as well as the rabbit offering I currently offer and no where near as good as the beaver. Something I wanted to stay away from because people would man handle their hat and sit in a rain storm and say the hat sucks because it tapered and shrunk. Really don't want to read that.
As people have seen in another thread I went out and redid my Raiders block and now offering a Rabbit felt for my whole line of hats just based of of the desire of the Raiders rabbit look.
Here's that hat.
I'm working on putting together a distress pattern that I would use to distress each hat to look like the SOC Raiders hat but I have to tell you it takes time. Time = money, I'm sorry it's how things work. I'm also working on a different rabbit felt that will be a lot more floppy and will have better buckle factor right away for those who can't wait to have it naturally. I'm not walking away from my current rabbit offering just adding to my offerings.
I'm just looking into things and would make it an offering but it really would have to be a special offering. Not wanting to get stuck with a hat that looks like it got pulled from the mud and under a truck. I need to work out the details of how to offer this what would be called "the Cairo" and would only be offered in the distressed light weight rabbit felt.
I'm really trying to get some feed back as I work on the details. thanks for reading.
John
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1st, I would hate sending out a hat that doesn't look new. It's just hard to swallow putting in a hat that looks old and beat up into a box to ship to someone.
2nd. with some people ( not many) not completely on top of their own head measurements, makes this a problem for the Vendor. IE: I make a hat and distress it to be SOC SA as possible and it is custom fitted order ( as all of my hats are). The person makes a mistake with measuring and has to send a hat back to be replaced. No problem normally because if it's a small adjustment I can take out the trimmings and cut a new sweatband and sew them in. It's work and I do it to make the customer happy or I can make a new hat for that customer and sell the original hat as is. Not that big of a deal but when it comes to a distressed hat like the SOC, thats another story.
3rd, to get the buckle effect ( right away) that everyone who likes the SOC hat I would need to use a light weight felt and it wouldn't hold up as well as the rabbit offering I currently offer and no where near as good as the beaver. Something I wanted to stay away from because people would man handle their hat and sit in a rain storm and say the hat sucks because it tapered and shrunk. Really don't want to read that.
As people have seen in another thread I went out and redid my Raiders block and now offering a Rabbit felt for my whole line of hats just based of of the desire of the Raiders rabbit look.
Here's that hat.
I'm working on putting together a distress pattern that I would use to distress each hat to look like the SOC Raiders hat but I have to tell you it takes time. Time = money, I'm sorry it's how things work. I'm also working on a different rabbit felt that will be a lot more floppy and will have better buckle factor right away for those who can't wait to have it naturally. I'm not walking away from my current rabbit offering just adding to my offerings.
I'm just looking into things and would make it an offering but it really would have to be a special offering. Not wanting to get stuck with a hat that looks like it got pulled from the mud and under a truck. I need to work out the details of how to offer this what would be called "the Cairo" and would only be offered in the distressed light weight rabbit felt.
I'm really trying to get some feed back as I work on the details. thanks for reading.
John
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