How do you display your visors?

[Mike TM]

Hi, I display with a gummy head.
Mike

[Mike TM]

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[Mike TM]

and last example

[Shawn Southern]

Headgear Display

Here's what I use......entirely homemade....

[Shawn Southern]

Headgear Display

Pretty easy to make....the base is obviously just hardwood, cut and the edge design done with a router....the base material for the cap portion is the top part of a styro wig head.....covered with a cotton batting for padding (and to size for each cap)...covered with black velvet material pinned to the underside.

Here's a couple of quick shots of the display form minus the caps... pitiful quality pics, but I'm feverishly working to get my taxes done (...The forum's a great diversion!).....

The styro form is just "skewered" on the dowel (which has been sharpened)...a nice dollop of hot glue into the pre-stabbed hole...

...looks like a nice blank canvas for an Elvis painting...

[Shawn Southern]

Bottom view..

Bottom view......many ways to afix the covering....but I just pinned things down.....the styrofoam makes a good pincushion and no tools, glue required, etc.

[Shawn Southern]

Headgear Display

And...one last photo..

[TonyS]

I use Ethafoam heads padded with acid free polyester. Not cheap though.

[Bob Hritz]

I bought a few of these plastic hat stands, years ago, at a MAX Show. They are perfect for hats, distribute the weight, have a basket for adding moth balls, and keep the hat off the shelf. However, I never found them again and have been looking for years. There is no maker mark on these. If anyone knows a source, just let me know and I'll make the distributor very happy.

Bob hritz

[Bob Hritz]

Plastic hat stand with US Army Crusher. I have a real fondness for US officer hats and am seeking one in chocolate brown gabardine.

Bob Hritz

[Billy B]

In my HO the best way to display a cap is to use a headform that has a 100% acid free cover, like unbleached calico. This keeps all nasty stuff away from your pride and joy.

an article like this is advisable:

Well good idea bad execution. The wood is acidic...........and then you locked it in a box .......... made out of leather? I wouldn't advise your method to anyone.

[DougB]

I have these velvet covered styrofoam black heads stored in glass Ikea case.

[DougB]

another pic. I am checking with the supplier I get these from, a friend actually who is in the retail display trade, about what is in the velvet or treatment. I may cover them in an acid free mullin cloth.

[Ernst-H]

Does anyone have an address where Glass heads or Polyester heads can be bought in varying sizes?

[sturmbannfuhrer]

Well good idea bad execution. The wood is acidic...........and then you locked it in a box .......... made out of leather? I wouldn't advise your method to anyone.

I sell them unfinished so buyers can decide what finish to add if they want to, hence the unfinished state in the pics.

This way a buyer knows that the item is of a natural finish and have no need to worry about what I may or may not have put on it.

A buyer is therefore free to finish in whatever way required.

I give the opportunity to the buyer to have the final say, which I have always believed to be the best policy and gives the buyer control over which substance they may want to use.

The use of the cushion cap cover keeps the visor cap away from the wood. The wood itself has been dried in the finishing process and if managed correctly should not cause issues.

The cap is shown in the box to show that the forms are the correct size to go in a box. It is up to the user to stain / varnish or paint the form, water based coverings about. I see skip has put his items up which are awesome, nice items skip. Now Billy, skips stretcher looks untreated to me, what are you going to advise skip over that?