I don't think so based on the knife sheeths I've seen that are always quite thick but also stiff so that the pocket doesn't collapse. I've never seen kangaroo leather near the thickness of a US nickel. I hope this helps, Will

We are using 1/16th inch x 3/4 inch 18-8 stainless steel cotter pins from an auto supply store, the catch is they come in 100 piece boxes. Hopefully you can find a hardware store or automotive store that will break the packs up. By the way I've tried to find a more malleable pin but aluminum is too brittle. Another thought, if you could find the write gauge of copper wire you might use an inch or two to fashion a loop and to put your string through and then poke the ends up, carefully, between the sweatband and body depending on how closely they are stitched together.

@@DavidMorganLLC thx for your reply and suggestions

@@DavidMorganLLC I saw a video from "hats by the hundred"(may have gotten that slightly wrong) it you use the strap that barmah sells the metal part at the end has a sharp end that you push thru between the sweatband and the hat. It looks fairly simple on their video

You aren’t fooling anyone. These guys don’t scam people move on

@@catnip1171 I trued it and the fall knot broke so I had to use toothpicks and duct tape

This video shows us replacing an Alum Tanned "White Hide" fall replacing a Latigo or "Red Hide" fall.

We should make a video on how to do that. We recommend spot stitching the band to the hat n a few places around the crown.

Yes, the pieces are lost wax castings of bronze.

First hat seen is the Akubra Cattleman, second gray hat with wide band is the discontinued Squatter, packing marks are being removed from an Akubra Snowy River, then it is back to the Cattleman being brushed and showing the water on top of the hat.

We'll try to do better, there is a very tight space for the hands to get into with a camera lens!

The current production is much the same as the old but you might try ebay for a really old hat and I know you can find used rising sun badges on ebay.

True that hat bashing is a rare art but I am all but positive that all of the hats Akubra makes have machine pressed brim and crown shapes when the crowns are bashed.

Glad it helped!

We believe in our sizing chart that we detail on www.davidmorgan.com/shop-content/hatsizing/ That said fur felt hats with leather sweatbands do tend to shrink rather than grow over time. I think it depends on humidity and temperature changes and how often you wear the hat which for most keeps the sweatband oiled. A whole size up is too much in my opinion. After measuring, if you are very close to the next size up or down ask us to pick a larger or a smaller sized hat in that particular size, we can usually compare several and give you the one that is looser or tighter, they all vary. We order Cattleman with linings, but sometimes a production note may get crossed and Covid has changed some things too. I hope this helps - Will

Our pleasure!

Just did! It worked perfectlt

To lock the teeth push the front part with the teeth up while holding the back loop of the clasp in order to rock the teeth into place over the front loop of the clasp.

A seem ripper is another, safer, option.

Thank you for your purchase! The only hat with a telescope crown we carried regularly in my memory was the boss but we did for a time at least wholesale the Flinders which has that round crown and the band might have been a match. Alas that style is, like the boss, now discontinued. I'm not sure that the crown appearance isn't a trick of the light / video blur causing the crown to look round. - Will

@@DavidMorganLLC Thanks for the reply. Really looking forward to wearing my Akubra!

Patience and a fid or ice pick to tease the parts apart!

Like "Stetson" in America, across the pond in Australia "Akubra" is similarly used as a broader term for a fur felt hat with a good sized brim. Stetson stopped making hats in 1970 and is a design and licensing company now. Akubra still makes their own hats much as they have for over 100 years.