Project Information
This is a hat making tool, used to transfer the head shape measured with a Conformer or a Conformateur , to the actual sweat band of a hat. This allows any bumps, or dents in a person's skull to be translated to the shape of the hat.
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Purchasing Formillon (Formillion) Replacement Parts:
ALL HAT MAKING ITEMS THAT I HAVE IN STOCK
ARE LISTED IN MY ETSY.COM ONLINE SHOP, click here to check inventory
Formillon Restoration Work?:
If you have an old Formillon that needs some help, I can build whatever new parts it needs, but I need to have the whole Formillon shipped to me. Each of the finger keys are custom fit and shaped for it's specific spot, and there is no way I can do that without having the whole Formillon here for the fitting.
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Why worry about a Custom Fit for a Hat?
One Horse Training Cowboy friend I have buys his hats from a special hat maker in New Mexico. One day at a church picnic, he started talking with me about his custom hats, and I told him about my custom hat making tools. I asked him why someone would want to spend the money that it costs for a custom made hat, when they could just buy a boxed hat by Stetson, Resistol or another factory-made brand name boxed hat.
His response was, "Once you put on a custom made hat, any store bought boxed hat just feels like a cardboard box crammed down on your head. You try it once, you won't go back"
I loved that response, and it also really helped me to see the value in custom fitting a hat. Maybe someday I'll have a custom fit hat myself. I get lots of offers for trades of hats for hat tools, but I can't pay my utilities and buy food with hats, so I haven't been able to take the trade deals at this point.
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Formillon Restoration & New Plot Board:
In this project, I removed all of the sliding fingers from the old Formillon, built somewhere in the mid-to-late 1800's in France. Many of the old sliding fingers were damaged and broken. However, the front of the fingers were in pretty fair shape. So, I built 13 new sliding parts and mounted them on the old Front Finger parts.
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Artisan Hat Tools by Mark DeCou Studio
(Do you want to see More? Just follow these links):
NOTE:
ALL HAT MAKING ITEMS THAT I HAVE IN STOCK
ARE LISTED IN MY ETSY.COM ONLINE SHOP, click here to check inventory
Rounding Jacks, Collector's Editions:
Rounding Jacks, Deluxe Model:
Rounding Jacks, Hobbyist-Hatter Model:
Bench-Top Display Stands for Rounding Jacks:
Customized Rounding Jacks, Personalized for Specific Hatters:
Formillons & Conformateurs:
Foot Tollikers:
Brim Edge Curling Tools:
Band Blocks:
Crown Blocks
Hat Block Spinners:
Flange Stands:
Puller Downers:
Pusher Downers:
Hat Racks, Hat Stands, & Cedar Band Blocks:
Stainless Steel Slip Stick:
(Note:This project story, project design, and photos are protected by copyright in 2008-2012 by the Author, M.A.DeCou., all rights reserved, no use allowed without expressed written permission.)
use is allowed.)
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Purchasing Formillon (Formillion) Replacement Parts:
- Plot Board for your Maillard Formillon
- Wood Thumbnut Tightening Wrench
- Wood Clamping Ring with new Cork base
- Cork Pad
- Sliding Finger Keys for a Formillon, (I will need to have the entire Formillon to make the fit of the new fingers possible, and I am unable to give a quote on the repairs until I see the condition of the tool.
ALL HAT MAKING ITEMS THAT I HAVE IN STOCK
ARE LISTED IN MY ETSY.COM ONLINE SHOP, click here to check inventory
Formillon Restoration Work?:
If you have an old Formillon that needs some help, I can build whatever new parts it needs, but I need to have the whole Formillon shipped to me. Each of the finger keys are custom fit and shaped for it's specific spot, and there is no way I can do that without having the whole Formillon here for the fitting.
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Why worry about a Custom Fit for a Hat?
One Horse Training Cowboy friend I have buys his hats from a special hat maker in New Mexico. One day at a church picnic, he started talking with me about his custom hats, and I told him about my custom hat making tools. I asked him why someone would want to spend the money that it costs for a custom made hat, when they could just buy a boxed hat by Stetson, Resistol or another factory-made brand name boxed hat.
His response was, "Once you put on a custom made hat, any store bought boxed hat just feels like a cardboard box crammed down on your head. You try it once, you won't go back"
I loved that response, and it also really helped me to see the value in custom fitting a hat. Maybe someday I'll have a custom fit hat myself. I get lots of offers for trades of hats for hat tools, but I can't pay my utilities and buy food with hats, so I haven't been able to take the trade deals at this point.
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Formillon Restoration & New Plot Board:
In this project, I removed all of the sliding fingers from the old Formillon, built somewhere in the mid-to-late 1800's in France. Many of the old sliding fingers were damaged and broken. However, the front of the fingers were in pretty fair shape. So, I built 13 new sliding parts and mounted them on the old Front Finger parts.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Artisan Hat Tools by Mark DeCou Studio
(Do you want to see More? Just follow these links):
NOTE:
ALL HAT MAKING ITEMS THAT I HAVE IN STOCK
ARE LISTED IN MY ETSY.COM ONLINE SHOP, click here to check inventory
Rounding Jacks, Collector's Editions:
- Ebonized Walnut Clockwise with Laser Engraving
- Walnut Counter Clockwise w/Laser Engraving
- Walnut Uni-Directional Cutter
Rounding Jacks, Deluxe Model:
- Maple Deluxe Model, Counter Clockwise Cutter
- Maple Deluxe Model, Clockwise Cutter
- Walnut Deluxe, Counter Clockwise Cutter
- Walnut Deluxe, Clockwise Cutter
Rounding Jacks, Hobbyist-Hatter Model:
- Walnut Hobbyist-Hatter Model, Counter Clockwise Cutter
- Walnut Hobbyist-Hatter Model, Clockwise Cutter
Bench-Top Display Stands for Rounding Jacks:
- Walnut Bench-Top Display Stand
- Oak Bench-Top Display Stand
Click here to check inventory
Customized Rounding Jacks, Personalized for Specific Hatters:
- Spradley Hats in Apline, TX
- Rachel Pollock of La Bricoleuse
- Brainpan Hat Shop in Sumner, WA
- Steve Delk's Adventurebilt Hat Co.
- Marc Kitter's Adventurebilt Hat Co.
- Pyrate Trading Co.
- Hatman Jack at Wichita Hat Works
- Inaaya Hat Co.
- Penman Hat Co.
Formillons & Conformateurs:
- Complete Restoration of a Maillard Conformateur and Formillon
- New DeCou Formillion & Conformer, Prototypes #1 & #2
- Custom Designed Conformateur Carrying & Storage Case
- New Plot Base Board for the Maillard Allie Formillon
- Maple Wrench for Tightening Formillon Thumbnuts
Foot Tollikers:
- Left-Handed & Right-Handed Foot Tolliker
- Foot Tolliker: Elk Antler & Birch Wood, on a Display Stand
- Foot Tolliker: Walnut Wood, on a Display Stand
- Foot Tollikers: Three in White Birch Wood
- Foot Tollikers: Walnut Wood Set of Four
- Foot Tollikers, Birch Wood Double Set, on Display Stand
Brim Edge Curling Tools:
- Hinge-Shackle Curling Tool for the Homburg Hat
- Full Circle Shackle Curling Tool
- Half Circle Shacking Curling Tool
- Groove Tolliker Curing Tool
Band Blocks:
Crown Blocks
Hat Block Spinners:
Flange Stands:
Puller Downers:
Pusher Downers:
Hat Racks, Hat Stands, & Cedar Band Blocks:
Stainless Steel Slip Stick:
- "Coming Soon", please check back.
(Note:This project story, project design, and photos are protected by copyright in 2008-2012 by the Author, M.A.DeCou., all rights reserved, no use allowed without expressed written permission.)
use is allowed.)