Hat Band Tooling Template

[Cody C]

ya i finally sat down an just drew it up. I was trying to be lazy  

[PastorBob]

looks great.  Can't wait to see your finished product.  Great idea of printing out the photo to use as a guide.

[chuck123wapati]

11 hours ago, Cody C said:

ya i finally sat down an just drew it up. I was trying to be lazy  

perfect!!

[chuck123wapati]

19 hours ago, doubleh said:

The original should be easy to draw. The repo offered by Knudson is cheesy by comparison. They do have some nice hats though. I would choose the Dude style if I were looking for another hat.

none of the copies i have seen really match, i think a pear shader is the key the leaves don't look correct in most of them IMO. some look like an embossing wheel actually.

[Cody C]

in case anyone is interested, I was messing around with it today after work trying to figure it out. I think the camo tool is the right one but the little leaves need more experimenting. From different pictures I've looked at some of the leaves look like they have thumb prints thru them like i did and some look completely shaded in with a pear like chuck123wapati mentioned... haven't been able to tell if there are any decorative cuts or not from pictures.

Edited August 26, 2022 by Cody C

[fredk]

Yours looks just grand so it does

but, I thought the marks in the long bit were done with a long pear shader, a P367, or a P208 ground narrower on the fat end

[Cody C]

34 minutes ago, fredk said:

Yours looks just grand so it does

but, I thought the marks in the long bit were done with a long pear shader, a P367, or a P208 ground narrower on the fat end

Thank ya Sir! Ya that's basically what I used (p367) but from the pictures I can find that arn't super grainy some of the leaves looks like it has what I did and some are completely shaded in. maybe they are alternated? I cant really tell, just shooting from the hip 

[bland]

I think it looks great even better than the original.  

 

[chuck123wapati]

16 hours ago, Cody C said:

Thank ya Sir! Ya that's basically what I used (p367) but from the pictures I can find that arn't super grainy some of the leaves looks like it has what I did and some are completely shaded in. maybe they are alternated? I cant really tell, just shooting from the hip 

it looks awesome as other have said its as good or better than the original and heads above the other repro's. other folks have the same pics as you to look at so they wont be able to tell of any difference between the two.

[Cody C]

On 8/27/2022 at 1:08 PM, chuck123wapati said:

it looks awesome as other have said its as good or better than the original and heads above the other repro's. other folks have the same pics as you to look at so they wont be able to tell of any difference between the two.

appreciate that...im kind of a perfectionist when it comes to stuff like this so when I'm done I can say, I couldn't have matched it any closer. Best I have found, looks like I'm close, but its 3 pear shaders close together. i see the decorative cuts as well. Charles Bronson had the same hat band.. Bronson's pictures are way better, thank God for reused movie props.

 

Edited August 29, 2022 by Cody C