A Third of the Gear On Board

[Louisianna James]

Hi guys check these out, my two Herbert Johnsons, a movieshop Adventurer hat, and a bullwhip, but no guns for me though












Hope you enjoy!

[djd]

Jolly good. Some very nice ToD style feds

[HENRY JONES JR.]

I have a love affair with Herbert Johnson hats. I too own two. The one I tried to use the hat stretcher on just really is too small still, but my "hero" HB ( my size) just is something I wear all the time now. I just want another at some point (in my size where I don't need a hat stretcher) so I can use one, and not worry too much what happens to it, and another for safe keeping and for display.

[Louisianna James]

Jolly good. Some very nice ToD style feds

Thanks bro, actually the hat with the lighter ribbon is LC style, the movieshop hat with the dark ribbon is styled as the TOD bridge scene.

[Louisianna James]

I have a love affair with Herbert Johnson hats. I too own two. The one I tried to use the hat stretcher on just really is too small still, but my "hero" HB ( my size) just is something I wear all the time now. I just want another at some point (in my size where I don't need a hat stretcher) so I can use one, and not worry too much what happens to it, and another for safe keeping and for display.

Hi HJJ my good friend long time been very busy with work and college , i also love my hats(even though they're not vintage) , The movieshop hat is malleable but too stiff, while my raider style hj are floppy but not too malleable. Btw I was wondering from what year(vintage) was your Hero hat is from and also the darker sable HJ. The more i research about the film used HJs, i realized that the hj made by Swales were different from the modern hj made by Swaine Adeney, Advintage, Todds etc, Since Swales retired around 2000, the felt color and thickness have changed by the new HJ owner. i was thinking that the color of felt that Swales used for all the HJ poet in the 80's and 90's was probably cork, light sable, or chocolate brown, but i think it's cork. I can tell that your Hero Hat is actually a real vintage HJ poet made by Swales, lucky you , cause the felt is lighter than your other hat( not sure if Swales made that hat). Btw take very good care if those hats, and post more pics of your Hero Hat.

[HENRY JONES JR.]

Hi HJJ my good friend long time been very busy with work and college , i also love my hats(even though they're not vintage) , The movieshop hat is malleable but too stiff, while my raider style hj are floppy but not too malleable. Btw I was wondering from what year(vintage) was your Hero hat is from and also the darker sable HJ. The more i research about the film used HJs, i realized that the hj made by Swales were different from the modern hj made by Swaine Adeney, Advintage, Todds etc, Since Swales retired around 2000, the felt color and thickness have changed by the new HJ owner. i was thinking that the color of felt that Swales used for all the HJ poet in the 80's and 90's was probably cork, light sable, or chocolate brown, but i think it's cork. I can tell that your Hero Hat is actually a real vintage HJ poet made by Swales, lucky you , cause the felt is lighter than your other hat( not sure if Swales made that hat). Btw take very good care if those hats, and post more pics of your Hero Hat.

Hi buddy!!

I do plan to take more photos of my hero hat. For some odd reason, it never looks as good as it does in person! Don't know why. I'm always dissapointed how the photos turn out. I do think my hat may have been made my swales, as it is a lighter color brown, perhaps sable. The other, as you pointed out, is a much darker brown. The sweatband, and the satin liner are exactly the same, but the ribbon on the darker brown one was much lighter than my swales hat. My hero hat has a darker brown ribbon than the non swales hat, but it's still too light according to the members here (they are correct), but it is the way it actually was made, and is original to the hat.

Fithchamber found this website... http://www.maxcady.com/selections/indyhat.htm

It's identical to my hat. I'm guessing it's one and the same.

Can you, or anyone look at the photo on the website, and tell me which movie version this one is mostly patterned after? Is it generic Indy, or perhaps, Last Crusade style? The ribbon on the hat on the website looks darker than mine. Not sure why.

[JeffDJ]

Anyone know if there's an English version of that maxcady site? Those are some fine looking hats, but I can't read anything!

[fifthchamber]

Anyone know if there's an English version of that maxcady site? Those are some fine looking hats, but I can't read anything!

　No, no English language site...They don't sell overseas either, only in Japan..So there's no overseas shipping etc...

Honestly, while the felt looks ok, and the colour seems good, the hat band is a sad failure and I can't justify paying that much cash for something so......Weak.....

The money is best spent on decent hats all round...

In my opinion.....Their lighters were classy though, and their diaries are great too....

[HENRY JONES JR.]

Anyone know if there's an English version of that maxcady site? Those are some fine looking hats, but I can't read anything!

Most search engines allow you to "translate" a page into English.

[fifthchamber]

Can you, or anyone look at the photo on the website, and tell me which movie version this one is mostly patterned after? Is it generic Indy, or perhaps, Last Crusade style? The ribbon on the hat on the website looks darker than mine. Not sure why.

It doesn't say in the write up under the hat, but I'd say it's generic Indy....Close to Last Crusade, but without the brim change, and nowhere near Raiders except for the general shape.....

They make the point of stating that the hats used in the fourth film were not Herbert Johnson as well, which is cool...But there's nothing about the style they're aiming for in the photos...Given the jacket as well, I'd guess Last Crusade.......

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Most search engines allow you to "translate" a page into English.

And yes, you can, but most translation engines aren't able to reverse the Japanese sentences and make sense of them in a way that reads easily....It'll be garbled as all get out....

I can translate anything you want to read, as long as it's not an entire page (I can't be bothered to translate that much...LOL)