Beaverslayer Hat Tutorial

[lindatt]

That tutorial was incredible. Very easy to follow. Guess you could make a hole for an old pony tail? Would like to make one for the old hubby, but he has a very long old pony tail.

Thanks so much for your generous sharing. Linda That hat is soooooo cool I would wear one!

[Jordan]

Great lesson, I think it is time to print them up as instruction booklets and sell them thru tandy and such. Wonderful looking hat.,and vest in the other tutorial. All that lacing is intimidating, one wrist band and my fingers ache for days.

[Gibbsleatherworks]

Thats a wonderful job. Im so glad I ran across this forum. The talent here is remarkable. What a cool idea to do a hat.

[Tina]

Your tutorial rockk Beaver.

Very easy to follow and I love the the end product with the laced details...Great cap

Johanna, how about making a special place for all the tutorials, now the're all ove the place?

Edited April 20, 2008 by Tina

[Gremlin]

Another fantastic tutorial Ken. I'm going to be saving this one and give it a try very soon. Many thanks!!

[TomBanwell]

Thanks, Ken. Your tutorials are excellent with all the details. I love the sharing of techniques on this forum. Wonderful!

[SmilinJim]

Great work Ken, You are a real craftsman and thank you for sharing your talents. I've got to make one. But, I've got what some people have termed a buckethead, actually to my face, and most ballcaps and such don't quite look right, makes me look kind of dorky, heck, probably look dorky anyway. I'm going to use the tutorial to make a regular hat. Are there any tips or suggestions you can send my way? Again great work.

Keep on Smilin

Jim

[TomSwede]

Lovely stuff Ken! You know I dig the colour of that brim!

Your tutorials are very good and I think it's a real treat from you to show us all this stuff, tinfoil hats off for this one;-)

To bad I will never wear a leather cap (I actually don't like caps at all) 'cuz my completely bald head (not shaved, really bald) has a funny effect with leather hats. They suck to my head like theres vaccuum and it looks darn funny I can tell you.

I've seen leathercaps before and always felt like they were missing something, now I know. They had no good braids.

It looks great and of course so does all skullstuff to me!

Tom

[Beaverslayer]

Mike, thanks so much for the compliment, I do enjoy being able to share with all of you here.

Myriam, the mesh I get fro Fannies Fabric, it is the same stuff they make sport jerseys from. Any fabric shop will know what your talking about if you ask for sport jersey nylon mesh.

bob, I hope to do a tutorial on some of the diferent styles of lacing sometime soon. Johanna has asked a few times if I would do a video on it, but me and cameras don't work well together.

Linda, I'm sure if you were to just modify the back end of the hat where the adjustment strap is, it would work for a pony tail.

Jordan, I know what you mean about the lacing, I tend to do a bit, take a break for coffee and a smoke, then do a bit more. Tend to drink more coffee and smoke more while lacing though.

Gibbs, thanks for the compliment, this forum is full of great people that are always willing to share their knowledge, glad your liking it here.

Tina, thanks for the compliment as well, your work rocks also, and I hope you take home a blue ribbon this weekend.

Curtis, glad you like this one, and as with the vest, can't wait to see the new hat. Just think, you can make it to match the vest.

Banwell, always glad to help out where I can Tom. You yourself have been very helpful to a lot of mask makers, thanks for what you've been doing.

Jim, thanks. After making my first ball cap from leather, it did not look right on my head, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't my head, cause I've been wearing hats for 40 years or so. That's when I decided to just cut it up a bit and change the shape. Many hats and lots of lace later, this is the style I came up with. You could do the same, just experiment with diferent shapes, and also another tip, use the softest and lightest weight leather you can. Deer works real nice, just don't wear it in the rain.

Tom, glad you like the hat. to bad about the vacuum head thingy (gives me funny mental images) also glad to be able to share my knowledge with all of you.

Ken

[Ian]

Hey Beave, I saw a beautiful braided vest today, so I had to ask the guy where he got it. Turns out he's Canadian and some guy up there made it. He couldn't remember the guy's name. It didn't have the tooled yoke, but was braided together like the one you had up on here. It had a zipper instead of snaps. I was thinking "how small could the world possibly be if it turns out it's one of yours, and it ends up in my little neighborhood.