Club Obi Wan

Hello COW'ers!
First of all I want to thank "Indiana G", "Mark Brody" for their help, and "Darrell" for his tutorial.

Here are the pictures of my first block:



And after that... my second block:



So, what do you think? When a decent hat shows... I'll post the pictures ;-)

Best Regards!
-Alfonso

I don't know if this one could be considered a "decent" one, but here's one picture of my very first hat



Regards,
-Alfonso

It hard to tell with a pic like that.

Here are another pics:







-Alfonso

Crown is bit low to my eye at least, but it has nice straight sides, not a hint of taper. I like the color of the hat itself too, very Chicago 1920's look to it!

It reminds me of a hat you'd wear with a zoot suit. Not to say that's a bad thing, but if you want more height out of the crown, you basically got to turn some of the brim into crown as you block it. I really like the look of the block - yours ought to last longer than mine did.

Well, yes the crown it's pretty low... I really didn't knew the correct technique... Here's my second try:




And in this case, I think the crown it's too high hahaha...
But as it said: "Practice makes perfect"

Regards,
-Alfonso

Can envision the dents and all in that nearly raw body! Think you are on to something, my man!

Well, you'll never know until the hat is finished. When I made mine, I thought maybe I'd blocked it a little too tall. Maybe it has shrunk since then, but I wish it were a little taller now. It's best to have a reference on the block somewhere so that you can make accurate adjustments. Keep up the good work, though. I like the way this is going!

How tall is the block?

The first one 16 cm (6.3 in), and the second one 18 cm (7 in) approx.

-Alfonso

Why so tall?

BendingOak wrote:Why so tall?

That was because the pieces of wood that I use were tall enough that if I put one less it wouldn't be tall enough, if I put one more it would be too tall, so the way I saw it: It's better to have more than less haha...
That's why.
Regards,
-Alfonso

those blocks look very nice mlm! i love the finishing on them for sure.

a little trick i have to capture what height i need the hat to be is to have an ironing board with an ovular cutout in the middle. my block is about 6" high so i made the board 3/4" thick (it's just a 18" x 18" board that i tacked a cotton towel to). that would leave me with a 5 1/4" finished height open crown. the latest hat that i made this weekend, i wanted a deeper centre crease, so i raised the block up while sitting within the recessed cut-out. i propped the hat block up by a smidgen over 1/4" by putting a coaster under the block. this hat may just be my last for a while as everything went perfect. i'm just waiting on the ribbon now.

i can't wait to see what comes out of that brown one in the pic

cheers,


G

what kind of wood did you use to make the block? it looks like a pine 2 x 8

pine.........bad. too soft. that's what i learned from mr. brody's tutorial.

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