Popular Post preprius Posted February 24, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 24, 2022 I was inspired to make this project by seeing a cowboy hat made by a lathe. This is a wearable cowboy hat. I thought that this was a bit of a challenge so I expected some re-dos. I did have some oopses but was able to recover from them. Since I have done bowls before, I thought just maybe I could do it. A hat's crown is the same basic shape. Just add a thin top, and a big thin wide brim. And "how to bend" wood. Oh crap ! I had to learn that and hope it came out okay. I bought thin project ready stock from Cherokee woods, 1/8 " thick. Then added 3/4" thick 10"x 24" board for bowl / crown. This is maple wood. So I cut a maple leaf topper using 45 deg table tilt. I have lots of pictures during the making of this Maple Cowboy Hat. But for now I will attach 5. This hat conforms to my head. I bought a drafting curve tool 30" and wrapped it around my head. Then traced it on paper and scanned into computer. With inkscape I created a curve path and made my head shape. With the "linked offset" tool I made 8 lines with 1/8" offset. This is my pattern. The 3rd picture shows 2 rings cut and the pattern. Yes I have an eggshaped head. I have about 20 hours into the project. Ok that was the intro. I did have inspiration from: OCTOOLGUY Dave Monk Also Ruth Niles from Niles bottle stoppers. Youtube "wooden cowboy hats". There is a song from Chris LeDoux named "This Cowboy Hat". I was so inspired by this project, I thought I could change the words to the song. If you are interest in a personal message of new words to the song. I can provide that. The last pic shows a quick small prototype / test, I did before I started this project. Small test used 1/4" baltic birch plywood. Me. Mark Eason FrankEV, jollyred, Fish and 11 others 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak0ta52 Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Very neat project, Mark. I was expecting to see a picture of you wearing it. Wonder if that would be considered a "Hard Hat?" preprius and RabidAlien 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preprius Posted February 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Well I did order hard maple? John B and Dak0ta52 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 terrific job preprius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTCowpoke22 Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 That's amazing. Well done! preprius and danny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Monk Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 You sure made a conversation piece. Nice job for sure. danny and preprius 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny Knappen Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 That is amazing. I made bowls before, but never thought of inverting to make a hat. preprius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirithorse Posted February 25, 2022 Report Share Posted February 25, 2022 Fantastic vison and well executed! My hat is off to you for such an amazing project! God Bless! Spirithorse preprius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preprius Posted February 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2022 (edited) So now you saw the good side. Here is my ooops. When drilling I had drill bit bend or drift. In 3/4" maple at 9 degrees. My hat crown thickness is only 0.125" so not much room to sand down to blend it in. Also there is a wood dark grain that kind looks like stitching. It just happened to be where my drill holes are. There is wood filler that is staimable and was recommended by Dave Monk. But Timbermate is on back order. So for this hat I decided to leave it as is. Edited February 26, 2022 by preprius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preprius Posted February 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2022 Ok, by a request from dakota52 here is a selfie. I don't like selfies. I was going to wait until I grow my mustache but oh well. Also here is a short video that rotates the hat top bottom and around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted March 1, 2022 Report Share Posted March 1, 2022 Great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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