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Seriously bitchin !! I was just thinking of doing some Iron Maiden when I longed on

bryans just a thought here but...... flying off the handle a bit early there, not everyone checks every post everyday. Plus not everyone knows the answer. I will offer you a way that will work to give you a straight line with a rapid fade for an edge. Hold a piece of poster board with a straight edge raised slightly off the surface(the farther off the wider the fade) and airbrush your color on.

You could follow the instructions in this and just not fold up the brim: http://www.houseofanoria.com/CaptainJack/Captain%20Jack%20Sparrow%20Hat.pdf

Don I dont know if this'll help but if you take this print it out and enlarge it untill the front edge is 3 inches and the top edge corner to corner is 9.25. The top circle is 6inches across and the strap around it is 1 inch by 24. The brim I just fiddles around by hand and did it. skyved 1/4 inch on the inside to fold up and attach to crown

My first knife sheath. Customer was a submariner sonar operator so I put navy dolphins sound waves and tribal waves on it.

I agree. Hell most of what other people think is my most brilliant stuff was mistakes when I did them.

Don I will try to redo them as a I was saying and post them in a clear pdf with measurements and all but it might be a week or so before I have it with everything else going on.

Auto Air not Auto color

I used the airbrush and Auto color(I believe) first I laid down white then a silver glitter then airbrushed transparents(because I would have had to order candies). Then super sheen on top of that.

3-4 oz on the sides to save weight 5- 6 on the brim and top to add rigidity

Well neither of them got me where I need to be but looking at DC 's stuff gave me an idea. If I run the braid down both sides to a stop at the point I can put a rivet at the point and it should look fine. It would also be one of the rivets to hold the loop for the leg strap so it would be fully structural as well. Thanks Katsass

Not really other than that the top is 6 inch diameter and the strip is one inch wide I made from playing with poster board and duct tape because I couldnt find a pattern anywhere anyone was willing to share. It is really not that tough a thing. What I recommend is save the picture , then open it in photoshop or whatever do a threshhold on it and scale it to where the top is 6 inch diameter print it taoe it to poster board cut it out tape it together see how it fits and then scale it up or down from there til you get it it. Poster board is cheap and even if it takes you 3 or 4 tries it shouldnt take more than an hour to find where you need it. since I used tooling lether and nothing is hemmed under the pieces will need a hemming allowance if you are sewing up suede or canvas. i just whip stitched the top and double zigzagged the sides. I may make another with a cooler lacing on the top this summer. But If I do I will probably tool the top and a patch for the front as well.

Okay I couldnt find my drawings but here is a picture of the pieces cut out. If you scale the circle to 6 inch diameter you could use this pic as a pattern. I would change the back line of the side pieces to where it drops straight down about 2 inches from the bottom so the back doesnt come out in a point at the bottom.

When I'm ack home tonight I'll send you what I made. It needs a little tweaking.

Hello folx lets see if I do better on this section of the forum with this. Here is what I have: I am making a sheath for a Bowie knife. It is about 1/4 inch thick or so and I was wanting to do a lacing I was incorrectly calling a mexican boxbraid. What it is is this from 1 go to 4 then back to 2 then 5 back to 3 and so on gives an awesome looking chevron pattern. My problem is not knowing how to make that do angles and can it even be done at such an acute angle as the knife point? If it is not doable what would you all recommend for something like this? Something that will look good and cover alot of the edge? Double loop?

Panther the skull and die are from a patch the customer sent me. Kevin the hat is part Tany pattern part a pattern I made befor discovering the tandy pattern. I made the sides of the crown taller and a little longer but essentially tandy but the top is round and bigger the tandy one is oval. I sized the brim up a bit to deal with the larger brim size and balance it out. On the brim I flared it over a vase my wife has at the top a little.

Thank you

This one is going out to the customer this week. He drums in a band and wanted something for on stage. And here's a side view from before the band was attached.

I decided I wanted a John Bull type of tophat after making so many hats for others I realized a full height tophat on top of my 6'4 of ugly was overkill. I wanted something roguish maybe snakeoil salesman/medicineshowish so here it is. Double looped top and whatever this lacing is on the brim.

McJeep thanks. I'm wondering if I might not have to just go double cordovan on it. BTW am I calling this the right name. I was looking and it seems the mexican braid I'm seeing weaves more than what I am doing. All I am doing is 1 top 4 bottom 2 top 5 bottom 2top 6 bottom

No answer? So is it that this is a question that has been asked a million times so nobody cares to answer it again or what?

I think I am calling it the right thing: 4 forward 3 back gives a beautiful chevron effect covering the entire edge, like what I have in the picture. I have this down on top hats but I am wanting to do a bowie knife sheath in this lacing and I am wondering how a body goes about the corners and changes in direction. Following the blade from the bottom there will be a very sharp angle at the tip and then a much less pronounced angle to address. It was on this forum that I found the simplistic yet so very useful explanation of 4 forward 3 back I hope to find a similarly intelligible one for this. Thanks in advance

I cheat on things like that and cut a stamp for it with the CNC machine in oak then go back and paint.

Cyber I have not used cuttlefish bone but I have used the machine to cut soapstone and have used it to cast aluminum., I'll have to give some research to cuttlefish bone. Studio I would say build your own I can help ya through it. If I can do it it can be done. I'll post some pics when I find where I put em but here's a youtube link to it in action I would turn soun way down before starting vid: Here's another one I made from a stamp from the machine.

I know this is an old post but that is page 9 from How to Lace I got mine from Tandy