Pinch
Old Oak
Hi Gents,
This little project took some persuading.
:eusa-whistle:
As a hat collector, I've been wanting to bring some of my hats out on display instead of being shut away. I don't just enjoy wearing hats, I enjoy looking at them too and, hat making is a beautiful specialist craft.
I have about 20 hats in my collection so far ranging from woolly peaks, baseball, flat caps, baker boys caps (Peaky Blinders), fedora, straws, Panama and a boater. I'm still yet to buy a decent top hat and bowler hat.
With my recent boater hat purchase, I gently worked on Mrs P, praising the quality of craftsmanship and that it was a shame some of my hats were not on display. Meanwhile, I removed a blackthorn bush from the garden as requested by Mrs P, and I could see the base of the bush making a cool hat rack for maybe 2/3 hats - nothing too big. The bush was now long gone, but I kept the stem/base part to one side. Mrs P inquired 'why?', so I simply said "I'm going to make it into a small hat rack.... to hang in my new hobby 'shop." The seed was now sown chaps.
I started working on the hat rack, giving off an excitable persona of joy, knowing all the while, this hat rack wasn't going to hang in the small workshop at all. I could see reservations with Mrs P too, but I continued my plan to the point of disappointment when it came to installation, then hoping, Mrs P will feel sorry for me and consequently give in to me having a few of my hats on display.
The question is: Did my plan work?
Answer: Oh yes! :eusa-dance: :lol:
But it was hard going.
Anyway, here is my newly made little hat rack hung on the dining room wall next to the entrance door of my new hobby workshop. The fixings are concealed including the wall hanging, and it's finished in polyurethane varnish. These three hats are as follows; A green fedora made by Hawkins, a straw boater made by Olney (my recent purchase) and a Harris Tweed baker boys cap made by Failsworth.
And here is where I'm storing some of my other hats, including 3 flat caps (1 leather), 2 baker boys caps (1 suade), 2 straws, 2 baseball caps and a beanie peak.
I also thought I'd show the 200+ year old threshold to the workshop showing many years of wear. This house was once a coaching inn and I think the workshop was the passage way from a front entrance door serving the public rooms.
Cheers.
bscene-drinkingcheers:
:text-bravo:
This little project took some persuading.
:eusa-whistle: As a hat collector, I've been wanting to bring some of my hats out on display instead of being shut away. I don't just enjoy wearing hats, I enjoy looking at them too and, hat making is a beautiful specialist craft.
I have about 20 hats in my collection so far ranging from woolly peaks, baseball, flat caps, baker boys caps (Peaky Blinders), fedora, straws, Panama and a boater. I'm still yet to buy a decent top hat and bowler hat.
With my recent boater hat purchase, I gently worked on Mrs P, praising the quality of craftsmanship and that it was a shame some of my hats were not on display. Meanwhile, I removed a blackthorn bush from the garden as requested by Mrs P, and I could see the base of the bush making a cool hat rack for maybe 2/3 hats - nothing too big. The bush was now long gone, but I kept the stem/base part to one side. Mrs P inquired 'why?', so I simply said "I'm going to make it into a small hat rack.... to hang in my new hobby 'shop." The seed was now sown chaps.
I started working on the hat rack, giving off an excitable persona of joy, knowing all the while, this hat rack wasn't going to hang in the small workshop at all. I could see reservations with Mrs P too, but I continued my plan to the point of disappointment when it came to installation, then hoping, Mrs P will feel sorry for me and consequently give in to me having a few of my hats on display.
The question is: Did my plan work?
Answer: Oh yes! :eusa-dance: :lol:
But it was hard going.
Anyway, here is my newly made little hat rack hung on the dining room wall next to the entrance door of my new hobby workshop. The fixings are concealed including the wall hanging, and it's finished in polyurethane varnish. These three hats are as follows; A green fedora made by Hawkins, a straw boater made by Olney (my recent purchase) and a Harris Tweed baker boys cap made by Failsworth.
And here is where I'm storing some of my other hats, including 3 flat caps (1 leather), 2 baker boys caps (1 suade), 2 straws, 2 baseball caps and a beanie peak.
I also thought I'd show the 200+ year old threshold to the workshop showing many years of wear. This house was once a coaching inn and I think the workshop was the passage way from a front entrance door serving the public rooms.
Cheers.
bscene-drinkingcheers: :text-bravo:
