My First Tooled Flame Leather Top Hat

[Zonker]

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.

Edited April 23, 2012 by Zonker

[MedusaOblongata]

Badass Hat! I love it.

[Zonker]

Thank you

[Mike516]

Wow, that's sick. Looks great.

[PANTHER]

Looks great. Are the skull and die tooled? Can't quite tell from the picture.

Panther

[Phatdaddy]

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.

Very nice, was this from one of the Tandy patterns?

Kevin

[Zonker]

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.

[Aurelie]

terrific!

now i have to make one for myself!

a tip about the weight of leather you use?

[Zonker]

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

[Aurelie]

thanks for the tip!

thanks for the tip!

[Studio Apocalypse]

What did you use to color the flames dye/paint? the gradient looks spot on!

[Zonker]

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.

[Zonker]

Auto Air not Auto color